As lame as Pitt’s home schedule is this fall, the road schedule receives recognition as being a challenge. Really, it’s on the strength — or brutality — of playing the expected best three teams on the road. Plus playing two other BCS conference schools in Michigan St. and Virginia on the road.
Rivals.com listed Pitt’s schedule as the 23d toughest in the country, and the 2d toughest in the Big East. That’s with Grambling and Eastern Michigan on the schedule. It’s either a bit of a reflection of the perception of the top three teams in the Big East now, or just how bad other schools schedule that Pitt’s sched. would make the top 25 in schedule difficulty.
Ideally, 2-3 on the road this season would be amazing progress. 1-4 would be tolerable.
A win from ONE of those games would be a miracle, let alone tolerable. 2-3 would be pretty damn surprising from this team. Virginia isn’t a gimmie game or anything, either. So, yeah, 1-4 on the road is tolerable, for sure.
I would be content with 2-3 on the road, but I would prefer an undefeated BCS title run.
Did anyone else catch the State Penn preview on espn news this weekend? they interviewed Morelli and wow Im not sure that guy can spell his own name. You could see the wheels turning while he was trying to put together a sentence.