1) Pitt was coming off a disastrous 1972 season, finishing 1-10. Coach Carl DePasqua was subsequently fired.
2) Geogia, under Coach Vince Dooley, was a traditional college football powerhouse in the South.
3) Pitt was a prohibitive underdog in this opening game of the 1973 season. This would be Tony Dorsett's first game as a Pitt Panther.
You would have thought Pitt won the Super Bowl by the reaction on campus after a shocking 7-7 tie with Georgia! The reason...there was finally HOPE! And this hope was later justified when the Panthers became college football's National Championship Team in 1976!
2) Geogia, under Coach Vince Dooley, was a traditional college football powerhouse in the South.
3) Pitt was a prohibitive underdog in this opening game of the 1973 season. This would be Tony Dorsett's first game as a Pitt Panther.
You would have thought Pitt won the Super Bowl by the reaction on campus after a shocking 7-7 tie with Georgia! The reason...there was finally HOPE! And this hope was later justified when the Panthers became college football's National Championship Team in 1976!
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