PITTSBURGH — West Virginia’s offense ran out of gas at the most crucial time in Saturday’s 38-34 loss to Pitt. The Mountaineers got their offense moving in the second half, but ran out of steam late in the fourth quarter, settling for a field goal inside the 10-yard line and going ...
West Virginia simply does not have the secondary to compete this season. There’s no other way to say it. As bad as WVU’s defense has been in the past, it’s never been like this. The Mountaineers can’t defend even the simplest of downfield passes this season. Penn State and Albany ...
MORGANTOWN — The biggest game of the year isn’t typically played in the middle of September, but it’s hard to argue that there is ever a bigger game for WVU or Pitt than the Backyard Brawl. The Backyard Brawl returns to the Steel City this season for the 107th meeting between bitter ...
Morgantown and Pittsburgh are close enough that the weather doesn’t drastically change from one place to the other. We’ve had a beautiful week of weather here in Morgantown and it was pretty much the same up in the Steel City. And yet, Pitt coach Pat Narduzzi held football practice ...
Amid all the cheering in that rickety stadium in the Steel City during an improbably wild Backyard Brawl between WVU and Pitt on Oct. 15, 1994, you could still hear it. Ripples of laughter, from the home-crowd Panther faithful who packed the place in Pittsburgh’s venerable Oakland ...
The Backyard Brawl is critically important to the WVU and Pitt football programs and their fans. For the players, not so much. Yet. The players know the rivalry is important, but very few of them have a personal connection to the game that was so evident with players 10 or 15 years ago. ...
