CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Pat White's career accomplishments could fill a book or an hour-long television show. The highlight he cherishes the most came long before he put on a West Virginia uniform.

The record-setting quarterback plans to sit back some day and reflect on his work, but now is not that time. White still has some business to take care of as he brings West Virginia (8-4) into the Meineke Bowl on Saturday against North Carolina (8-4) in Charlotte, N.C.

There's still room for more achievements as he tries to improve to 4-0 in bowl games. And White, who holds 15 NCAA, Big East and school records, has a penchant for playing well in them.

He topped Sam Bradford and Oklahoma in last January's Fiesta Bowl and also has wins over Georgia Tech in the 2007 Gator and Georgia in the 2006 Sugar.

White has a school-record four 200-yard rushing games, but has thrown enough to become one of seven quarterbacks in NCAA history to both pass and rush for 3,000 career yards.

No one at West Virginia thought they'd see a better running quarterback after Major Harris' shifty exploits in 1988 and 1989. Then came Rasheed Marshall, the Big East offensive player of the year in 2004.

In White's redshirt freshman season, he broke Harris' 1989 single-season school record of 936 rushing yards for a quarterback. By the end of his sophomore year, White had surpassed the career totals of Harris and Marshall and helped make West Virginia a regular on televised midweek games.

White's speed and ability to get out of trouble is what set him apart.

"He is an electrifying athlete," said North Carolina coach Butch Davis. "Just watching his film and the games that we've been able to catch on television over the last two years, he executes the read-option offense about as well as anybody you've ever seen. He explodes out of breaks.

"The thing I think makes him equally as dangerous is that he can throw the football very, very well."

White is West Virginia's total offense leader and his 4,425 rushing yards are the most in NCAA history for a quarterback.

In an unprecedented move, West Virginia wore its white road uniforms for White's final home game on Dec. 6 against South Florida. Footprints etched White's No. 5 in the snow on the field before and after the game.

White, when asked like a kid in a candy store to list his favorite Mountaineer moment, didn't hesitate.

After White signed a letter-of-intent in February 2004, the Anaheim Angels selected him in the fourth round of that June's amateur baseball draft and offered White a six-figure signing bonus. He decided to stick with football.

"My favorite moment as a player was when I realized I wanted to be a Mountaineer," he told The Associated Press in a recent interview. "The day of my (recruiting) visit, when I ran out on that field, it felt like nothing I've ever felt before."

White has shown Mountaineer fans some moves they'd never seen. Some have labeled him as the school's greatest player ever.

"Everybody's entitled to their opinion," White said. "And I'm grateful to those that think so."

First-year coach Bill Stewart provided some insight into a strong relationship built on trust. Stewart was White's quarterbacks coach in 2005 and 2006 before moving on to other team duties.

As a backup to Adam Bednarik during the first half of 2005, White never asked about playing time. White's father had flown to see his son at Rutgers, but White saw action only briefly.

"I said, 'buddy I'm sorry I didn't get you into the game (more) today. Adam had the hot hand," Stewart recalled. "Patrick put his hand on my shoulder and said 'coach, don't worry about that. Adam was really playing great today. I wouldn't have put me in either.'"

In 2006 against Rutgers, Stewart made a game-time decision to bench White, who had sprained an ankle the game before.

"I said, 'can you protect yourself?'" Stewart recalled. "He said, 'coach, I can't protect myself. I can't lead this team today. I will hurt this football team.' I said, 'you're not playing.'"

At the Gator Bowl in January 2007 against Georgia Tech, running back Steve Slaton was out with an injury and White wasn't feeling so hot, either. At one point, White had ice packs on both sides of his neck, one on his throwing hand and another around his ankle.

"He says, 'coach, put it on my back,'" Stewart recalled. "I said, 'son, they should fire me.' He said, 'coach I don't want to let you down. Put it on my back.'"

White ran for 145 yards, threw for 131 more and rallied the Mountaineers from 18 points down in the second half to beat Georgia Tech 38-35.

This season, with Slaton and backfield mate Owen Schmitt in the NFL, White missed all or parts of several games with injuries and couldn't bring the Mountaineers a third BCS berth in his four seasons. White still managed 919 rushing yards and was invited to play in next month's Senior Bowl in Mobile, Ala.

Despite last year's failure to reach the national championship game and then-coach Rich Rodriguez's messy departure to Michigan, White accepts all the disappointments with the triumphs and wouldn't change a thing about his career.

"No way," he said.