There are now less than 3 days before Pitt finally kicks off the new season of college football. It’s basically sucked to have waited an extra week longer than most of the country before the first game. Still, the tailgating assignments have been made.

Soon we will gather. We will drink. We will grill meat products. We will verbally abuse one another. Can’t wait.

There are questions for the season:

Will Pitt really make a run at the BCS?
Will Harlan make it back to the ‘Burgh for a game this year?
Who will miss more games due to family responsibilities, John or me?
How strictly will they be enforcing the parking lot restrictions?
Will the dance and cheerleading teams ever get their own web site?

Has it really been almost 4 years since that final game at Pitt Stadium?

We need a new picture.

The Congressional Hearings on the BCS will be held tomorrow. And even the people who are pushing for the hearing don’t actually want Congress to do anything. They just want the publicity (big surprise). Hardly the stuff that would cause the BCS conferences to take their balls away from the Non-BCS conferences.

Apparently, the loyal members of the Big East Conference will now wait until November to decide if they should split into a everything-but-football conference and a separate football-only conference.

NEWARK, N.J. — The Big East hopes to decide by November whether its football-playing schools will split from the non-football programs. Representatives from both groups met Wednesday with commissioner Mike Tranghese to discuss the conference’s future makeup… Among the options being considered: the schools with football programs would depart and form a new league; or football schools would remain in the conference, and possibly expand the federation to 16 teams.

I think that Chas’s previous rants more than address our opinion.

Hail to Less Lee Posts (Jeez, even I’m getting sick of myself)

At the risk of sounding as obsessed with bad college football uniforms as some people were with the proposed Cleveland Convention Center, I’d like to nominate two additional teams for the Oregon Award: the University of Wyoming and Purdue University. Thus, our four candidates so far for college football’s worst uniforms look like this.

Wyoming’s Brown and Yellow Ode to What’s Floating in my Toilet

Purdue’s Old Gold Tribute to the Little Chunks That are Still Floating After the First Flush

Oregon’s Painfully Bright “Lightening” Yellow Disasters

And Illinois’s Salute to Western Pennsylvanian Winter Wear

Additional nominations will continue to be accepted (or just made up by me) throughout the season. And once again, the Oregon Award is being given in protest of our own alma mater’s decision to give up what were once the best uniforms in college football so that we could look more like Notre Dame with a snarling doberman pinscher on our helmets. Heck, I should nominate ourselves…

Hail to Script Pitt

Neil Rudel is the Sports Editor of the Altoona Mirror. He is also one of the most read, respected, and published commentators on Penn State sports. He is frequently heard on the Penn State Football Radio Network during the season. As has been noted on this site before, he understandably has issues with Pitt and its current renaissance.

In today’s Mirror, Neil picked Pitt to go 9-3 and suffer under the weight of sudden expectations to win. Apparently, Penn State is the only team around here who knows how to win.

Good luck with Boston College, Neil. The line just dropped to 9.5.

Hail to Pitt Winning At Least Ten Games