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7p, ESPN
Announcers: Dave Flemming and Danny Kanell. (Boy, I’m going to miss the Friday freakery of the Tessitore effect.)
A lot of pixels used this week — thanks Reed and Justin — on recapping Delaware and looking to this game.
Cautious optimism, tempered by past disappointments. A breeding ground for my specialty, dark cynicism.
Here are the twitter feeds for myself and Justin if you want to follow that way.
I want the win. I want to see some insanely unbridled optimism that would come with it.
Pitt is on it’s way! Enjoy this victory for an extra day since this game was on Friday. Come Monday though, time to focus on FIU.
P-I-T-T
HAIL 2 PITT!
Still, Pitt looks as good as we hoped.
Thought Jones and Ibrahim deserved a play or two. Conners won’t make it through the season if he has to do this every week.
Voytik came through after a shaky start. The last drive before the end of the half was a thing of beauty, very unexpected, and it took the wind out of their sails.
Lots of game balls deserved, a true team effort.
Hope Clemmings is OK.
Should be a good crowd for Iowa.
Need to steamroll FIU first.
Pitt by 10 so I don’t have to sweat other than at my 12yo’s football game tonight. Go Warhawks!!!
Let’s go PITT!!!
Comment by TVax 09.05.14 @ 2:47 pm
…but the Warhawks got whipped – son lead rusher but only about 25 yards. Oh, well.
H2P
Still not a talented enough team for injuries to start mounting. Gabe Roberts battled Rowell until the end of camp in 2013, so I am confident he will be fine. Still haven’t heard how bad Rowell was hurt, I know he was on crutches. Clemmings out for any time would be a tougher blow.
Beat FIU and gc i hope you’re right. 3-0 against a Big 10 team you don’t get to see much and I would hope we get a nice turnout.
I will watch this game on DVR again sober, but I’m thrilled and really feeling good about this team and more importantly the program…
Hail to Pitt!!!!
FIU is bad. Even though they had a bad year, I think the only reason they canned Cristobal was they got sick of every year him being mentioned for jobs and seemed to like putting himself out there. Think they should have kept him around but sooooooooo glad Pitt went with Chryst…
I personally think the D has been the most pleasant surprise. Weknew we had stars in the making with Boyd and Conner. The O line has been recruited well, so I think we all thought they would be better. Voytik is about where I thought he would be, I had hoped for a little better, but he’s done what he’s needed to. I think the D has been tremendous. I think the special tteams has been solid too. So good work so far from Matt House and Chris Haering…
Good job by Matt House.
Voytik is still learning. Give him some time. Love the mobility.
Score wasn’t as close, and anyone that watched it knows this.
Win on the road in conference!!
Voytik going up and over players to get the first down!!
Football player!
Conner, beast
Boyd, beast
Lines both excellent.
Middle of D, excellent.
Corners, ehh, Lafayette, ehh
Would like to see more fake handoff, Voytik around the end on some 3rd and 3’s and 3rd and 4’s.
Ahhhh, picayune at this point, I’m sure we’ll discuss it during the week.
Hail to Pitt. Big win on the road, national tv!
Minor now, but could have been big at the time.
Refs reviewed the call to see if it was a catch.
Someone should have re-reviewed it, the receiver was clearly down, and the ball was at the 40 yard line.
About 3/4 of a yard less than the mark BC got.
Would have made it 4th and well over a yard to go, instead of 1/2 a yard.
Moot at this point, but ticked while I watched.
Good teams don’t let that happen. Another learning experience. Whitehead would beat out Pitts right now and would be an upgrade. He had a poor game although on the touchdown pass he seemed to indicate he thought there was help over the top. The film will show what happened. Rori Blair did awesome as did the offensive line.
Durham contained the qb a couple of times and took another stupid penalty because he couldn’t contain himself. Overall, a good game but it felt like we should have won by a few more. The James non fumble and the third down bc reception that was ruled out of bounds on replay were very big for this team. Pitt needs another option when the defense loads the box. A couple of questionable holding calls on Pitt tonight, particularly Holtz but interestingly Mannessah. No Rachid this game. Did Soto do anything? 91 sure did! Real solid game guys! 2-0!
I’m wondering if the ACC feels heavy to AD, since with their ad, run about 5 times during the game, obviously demonstrates that they’re riding on the back of his accomplishments as their own. I had no idea Pitt and AD were such cornerstones in the ACC during our very first season of competition in the conference.
Just goes to show that everyone loves a winner. Just win baby, win! Want to see Heinz Field sold out for the VT game? Have Pitt go into that contest undefeated at 6-0. There will be about 20,000 new faces there then with their newly purchased Pitt gear on boasting how they’ve been following Pitt faithfully since the Marino era. Yeah right! Who cares though, there’s plenty of room on the Pitt band wagon, hop on newbies, looks like it’s going to be a fun ride this year!
H2P!
Any newbies, come on down and enjoy!!!
You’re welcome on the wagon anytime!!!
