I know some of us have been putting our predictions down in Justin’s “Hoo’s Your Enemy” article but here is a separate thread for our guesses so that we can look back easily and see who knows what they are talking about when it comes to how Pitt does in actual games.

Speaking of which I have a 1-3 record so far this year, told you I sucked at that, but I’m thinking the passing games gets its feet under itself and the OL starts to come together now that there seems to be less substitutions there.  So the offense should be more productive with a more consistent running game.  Our defense gets better week to week but I think UVa gets two or three big plays.  We’ll give up some points but not more than we score.

While the Hoos may not stack up at that well in comparison to the other college football teams, we’ve seen other lightly regarded opponents come into Heinz and turn the tables. However, I do agree that Narduzzi and staff have done a good job keeping the kids up and focused for action.

As a reminder. these linked Pitt vs. Virginia Game Notes are essential for good Pitt football watching.  The whole publication is 41 pages long but for an individual game I print out pages 1, 3, 4, and 5.  Those are the game overview (pg 1) and then the Pitt Two-Deep and rosters (pgs 3-5).  The Pitt media dept does an excellent job with this coming out every week.

My thoughts?  The good weather, coming off a nice away conference win, and the possibility of showcasing the team at Homecoming points to a 34-21 Pitt win.

Yeah us!

Note: Yesterday I let Chas and Justin know that  I’m going to be backing away from the Blather as I have been working on a fictional novel  for the last few months, set in PGH in the early 1970s BTW, and a publishing company’s editor read what I had done to date and told me I need to finish it and send it out as soon as possible as she thought it had ‘good legs’.  So that’s what I’m going to do.  It will take up the time and energy that I have been giving to The Blather.

I’ll still try to get something up every once in a while but not on the scale I been doing for the last five years.  Of course I’ll read and comment as I always do.  Thanks for everything and it has been great fun to be with everyone… See you at the games!