Did this game matter?
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Since it goes in the W column, HELL YEAH!!!! H2P
Yeah funny how this one seems to matter more than last years game to some. They all matter to me.
Matters a ton outside of the board trolls, morons and joes.
No doubt it mattered. To me it demonstrates the program is still climbing. Just the idea that they could beat an 18th ranked team with at least 9 backups shows that they have developed the depth chart.
Any game that counts in the Win or Loss column and effects your ranking at the end of the season, MATTERS
I downplayed this game because we had a shell of the team we would normally have. The fact we won shows that there is something special at PITT. That game speaks volumes about our program.
It mattered on a lot of levels.
Narduzzi’s post season record.
Team chemistry, with all of the younger guys playing.
Fan support.
Final rankings / next year’s pre-season polls.
Finally, if nothing else, to reduce the opportunity for trolls to post.
If you win, it matters.
It you lose, it's the Frosted Flakes Bowl and 23 guys opted out, who cares?
That's the only way to follow bowls.
It you lose, it's the Frosted Flakes Bowl and 23 guys opted out, who cares?
That's the only way to follow bowls.
Not to forget the National audience—34 seconds, no time outs and we win!
Every highlight discussion is talking it up. Even outside of the record, it's great PR for the school, team and staff.
H2P!
H2P!
Yes . I get to gloat to my fellow Nitter employees .... And F UCLA !
H2P !!!!
I wasn’t really interested because of how many opt outs we had. That being said, it was a great job by the players and coaching staff to get the win against a pretty good team where almost none of them opted out. It was also a really great game! Hopefully the win puts us into the top 25 and gets some attention from potential recruits.
Does it really change anything? No. But any time you put on a uniform and play you always want to win.
I give those guys credit because I had us as big underdogs with the defensive starters we were missing.
I give those guys credit because I had us as big underdogs with the defensive starters we were missing.
does this game matter ?
Does making 250k a year matter ? does winning ww2 matter ? does anything matter?
Does making 250k a year matter ? does winning ww2 matter ? does anything matter?
It depends on how you define it. Any time your team plays, you want to win. I don't care if its a college bowl game you are not playing in yourself, your kids youth rec game, your pickup basketball game, etc....you always want to win. Winning "matters." It was great to win the game today. But it was the 13th most important game of the season. I call bowl games exhibition games but the reality is they are somewhere between an exhibition game (ie no meaning) and a regular season game (a lot of meaning).
Yeah I guess I’m more defining it same ole Pitt perception or culture wise. We gave them zero chance to beat Miami or UCLA. The same ole Pitt would be 7-6. And it’s 2 yrs in a row they kind of defied some things. Maybe the mean is finally a little higher?
OFFS, it isn't only you, but people just have to set aside ego and pride and tip the gd hat.
This is the game that will define this season.
SUN BOWL CHAMPIONS.
Only other game even close to being this big this year was the WVU win.
Its what they will spend the next 8 months pumping up to recruits, its what the media will note in preseason articles, what announcers will say when they start playing games next September, "Pitt, 2022 Sun Bowl champs."
It only mattered if we won. That's not me being a homer; that's just how it goes when you're down like 12 regular rotation guys and the other team isn't. We were playing with house money.
If Sauls didn't make that kick I wasn't going to be mad about it. But he did, and now it's one of the better Pitt games I can remember. Might even help with a recruit/transfer or two, too.
If Sauls didn't make that kick I wasn't going to be mad about it. But he did, and now it's one of the better Pitt games I can remember. Might even help with a recruit/transfer or two, too.
It feels like the best win of the year, to be honest. Wouldn't have said that coming it, but it feels like it now because of the manner in which it happened and who we beat. Tough for me to say that winning at Virginia on a windy day or beating a Miami team that was giving a 50% effort was more important than this game. Didn't feel that way.
Will you be talking about any game this season as much as this one in the future? I won't be.
I just posted something similar but totally forgot about the Backyard Brawl. Okay, you win... That was #1, haha. But this was a good one.
I’ve had a hard time accepting the mantra that bowl games “are just exhibition games” nonsense. I’ve said it a million times if it counts in the W/L column and affects your ranking it’s not an exhibition game.
In my opinion it’s just a way of preparing yourself for a loss and justifying the fact that players who are projected to be 5th round draft choices aren’t playing in the game.
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Yes, it "felt" great but a lot of that was based on circumstances. The game didn't matter as much as GT, Louisville, Miami, or Syracuse.
College football is a weird animal. I mean, yeah - the ultimate goal is to win the Coastal. But, since we didn't, it's tough to call this game any less significant than any one of those games. North Carolina is an exception, because we would have won the division if we won that game (I mean, on paper anyway; it's tough to predict how UNC would have reacted afterwards... maybe they wouldn't have lost to GT or NC State if they needed those games for the division).
But I bet we feel a lot better about how our season ended than UNC does. Their season was basically our 2018 season, except worse, emotionally... because they REALLY fell off a cliff.
But I don't know: The fact that we beat a team that had very few opt-outs kind of makes ending on a high note pretty cool. Sort of how the bowl games used to feel.
Yeah, It's totally irrational to let a bowl game significantly change how you view or feel about a particular season. And while I know that on a cognitive level, yesterday was different. I know part of that is recency bias, but it would have been an extremely bitter pill to swallow had Pitt lost that game yesterday. Fair or not, those last 30 seconds totally defined how fondly many will feel bout 2022 Pitt football. (and perhaps for a tiny group extreme fans, the entire direction of the program)
But wvu was a terrible team that we happened to beat. Losing that game would have hurt a lot more than losing this game, since wvu sucks so bad.
It's a good game to feel good about, especially since it was our second and third teamers beating the UCLA starters. Let's just enjoy it for what it is. It helps reinforce a culture of winning and gritty play at Pitt. That's what's more important than the final record or a "bowl" game win.
For the players it mattered because many of them didn’t play much all season. And when their QB stirred things, it started to matter even more and became a true end of season statement.
Absolutely! A win by Pitt that will be remembered by Pitt fans for many years to come, not because it was an important game in the grand scheme of things, but because we came back to win what looked like a crushing defeat with only 34 seconds to go. And to do all of this with 10 guys opting out to none for UCLA.
Meaningless exhibition is one of the dumbest takes ever for a bowl game. It's
a dumb take if we win and dumb if we lose.
This game was fantastic, partly because we won and partly because the coaches and players who were there thought it mattered.
a dumb take if we win and dumb if we lose.
This game was fantastic, partly because we won and partly because the coaches and players who were there thought it mattered.
