MORGANTOWN -- Saturday will be the 108th meeting of the Backyard Brawl between Pitt and West Virginia, one of the famous rivalries in college football. It’s been going for four years strong now, but after this year, the rivalry will be postponed until 2029. For a few years, the biggest ...
MORGANTOWN -- The biggest game on West Virginia’s schedule isn’t a Big 12 conference game. It’s the third game of the season against Pitt in the 108th Backyard Brawl. That’s not an opinion; looking at the ticket prices, WVU’s priciest home game is the Backyard Brawl, which is as low ...
Pitt coach Pat Narduzzi is as old school as college head coaches come. A defensive mind, Narduzzi just wants his offense to run the ball, control the clock and shorten games so his defense can create low-scoring wins. That is, Narduzzi wanted to do that, until it stopped working. ...
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 ...
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. ...