Get your game faces on, it’s almost show time!! Saturday we host the Blue Hens of Delaware at Heinz Field for the opening game of our 2014 season. Yeah Us!!
Here is the PITT SID’s office’s overview of the match-up. Here are the much more detailed “PITT vs. Delaware Game Notes” that are distributed by that office to the local and visiting media writers up in the press box. I find it interesting that we’ve never played them before but then again we have never lost to them before either. Small blessings.
Pitt is undefeated (9-0) against current members of the CAA, most recently beating Maine, 35-29, in 2011 and New Hampshire, 38-16, in 2010. I think we’ll easily handle Delaware. The spread is 27 points and that is doable as I think we’ll run right over them.
Before anyone starts talking about ‘we thought the same thing against YSU‘ let’s remember there are huge differences in the two situations. With the YSU game Chryst suspended six players including starters Ezell and Gonzalez just hours before the game. That in itself rocked the team. Combine that disciplinary action with the natural uncertainty the players had about Chryst going into his first game of his first year, especially after they were just burnt so badly by Graham, and you had a perfect storm for a loss. That isn’t the case at all this week against Delaware.
