As we would have said in Vietnam.

First HCP. snatches defeat from the jaws of certain victory with a series of mind bogglingly bad decisions.

Then, the Pitt players refuse to lose, with a 3-play drive marked by 2 great catches and a clutch run by Nick Patti to get Better Call Sauls into position to win the game with a FG that was from farther out than the one HCPN didn’t go for to ice the game with 2 minutes left.

Congratulations to the team for being better than your coach!

Wow. This feels good.

Will Pitt be ranked in football?

Seems like the coaches were right that Slovis was better

Sorry upfront guys because I realize there has been a thread or two regarding next year’s schedule but it just got harder. I just saw Louisville just got a really solid transfer in Plummer from Cal. So next year we’re starring at UNC, FSU, Duke and now Louisville all with NFL level QB talent. I’d be satisfied and feel great about winning 2 of those games. Throw in a loss to ND and the traditional egg the best I see 8 wins. My guess is 7-5 as I post. All of the sudden I’m depressed.

Start showing up. It’s all UNC bandwagon fans here.

Pitt football wins a great game vs a ranked UCLA team playing with many backups. Great Win. Great Springboard for 2023. Best of Luck to Nick Patti moving forward. Maybe he'll be a grad assistant coach at Pitt. A great young man.

Great win by Pitt hoops. There is hope ( I think ) this team seems to have much better chemistry than past Capel squads. Hopefully the can make the post season.

Congrats Pitt !!

Two heart pumping Wins today…Burton and great D in the hoops W…Nick and a less heralded group of Defenders in football…A TRUE DAILY DOUBLE!!


All in all, it’s a great day to be a PITT fan!

Hail to PITT!
-al-

Beat ranked teams in hoops and football, in two great games. the football game is an instant classic !

You sucked. Worst duzz mistake of 8 years

You have to hand it to the coaches for whatever they did at halftime. We got killed the first half. zero points the second half until the last drive. Fantastic job, they are very good defensive coaches.

We may, for the first time in a long time, actually have a little bit of that connection from season to season, where the young guys are getting to practice against grown men, who play hard and want to win. Going against Hinson, and Nelly, and Burton every day in practice could rub off on Fede, Dior, the twins, a nd the young guys next season in a way that we always used to be able to count on under Jamie's teams

Sun bowl crowd was great! Lots of free tequila around the stands so I won’t say much but:

I’m so proud of the fn team!!

Great job Sauls, Patti, Duzzi and so many others!

H2FnP

George. hit on GTR was beginning of end for UCLA . I predict he is out.

He must really be hurting

How good was this team really? We beat a full strength UCLA team with back ups all over the place. If we didn’t have those 2 brain fart loses, could of been back to back ACC champs

Hail to Pitt!!!! Nothing sexy about that performance, but damn that’s a lot of guts by a lot of guys jumping into the 2 deep. That’s a fun win and gives a lot of reason to be excited for next year. I really hope Pitt gets a top 25 final vote.

If we win there is a good chance we finish in the top 25. We would have 20 wins over 2 years, the highest 2 year period in over 41 years. So yes despite what some say the game can mean a lot to this program especially back to back top 25 finishes to sell to recruits.

With that being said it’s going to be a tough game to win due to all of our key opt outs or injuries.

We are missing our 2 best players Kancey and Izzy. Kancey could cause havoc vs UCLA. For whatever reason some don’t like the term “home run hitter” but that’s exactly what Izzy is. I feel he would have had over 200 yards VS this D.

On D we are missing more than half of our sacks.

No Izzy, Kancey, Dennis, Alexandre, Hill, several others and dare I say our starting QB Slovis haha, don’t kill me but he and Wayne started to develop really nice chemistry. With those guys I was confident Pitt would win.

Without them our chances go down a ton. BUT for some strange reason (I’m probably wrong) I feel we have a chance. Patti is nothing special but I think the guys are going to rally around him and he will play above his talent level. Hammond may not be a “home run hitter” but I think our OL can pave the way for him, C’bo and Davis to do what we did VS Miami. UCLA is soft up front, we can beat them up.

On D we miss a lot but have a nice 4 man rotation at DT to hopefully stop their run game. The key IMO is if we can get enough pressure without most of our top pass rushers. Hopefully Hayes plays like he did against Miami.

None of the experts and most of our fans don’t expect us to win. The pressure is on UCLA who doesn’t have mass opt outs. Am I crazy to think we have a punchers chance?

Was sure the game was going to be bad because of the missing players but I was way off. Team showed a lot of guts and toughness. Loved the running game as did the announcers. Glad we still have Hammond.
The unsportsmanlike conduct stuff drives me crazy.

47 yards into that cross wind....just an amazing, amazing, amazing, amazing, amazing kick.....

We'll be live for the post-game show at 6:30 pm. Tune in - it should be fun.

Best game of bowl season so far.

Dear Pat,
All of the perceived momentum that you lost over the beginning half of the season has come flooding back. For the love of everything holy please follow up with the intensity shown today. 5-0 since November 5th. That’s getting it done.

Sincerely,
Random message board poster

For Pitt! H2P!!