A few things I would hope all could agree upon:
-- Pitt beat Penn State last season. It was a game with wild momentum swings that ended up being very close. I've read a lot of jibberish from both sides -- PSU folks claiming it was a fluke; Pitt fans claiming it was a dominating victory -- that is simply not the truth. But, fans will be fans.
-- Neither team was very good at the time the game was played. Pitt did not beat a Top 10 team. PSU did not lose to a Top 25 team. Both were likely ranked somewhere in the 30s at the time. There was little national interest in the outcome. Both teams were far better by the closing weeks of the season and it would have been a much different game at that time. I'm NOT saying the outcome would have been different; just saying the quality of play by both teams would have been far superior to what it was in September.
-- Recruiting "rankings" don't mean squat until signing day. It's 10+ months until signing day. Once players sign and are actually committed to a program, it may be fair to take a glace at some recruiting guru's rankings, but that still means little. Wait two years and it becomes apparent which schools had great recruiting classes and which coaching staffs can bring the talent out of those players.
-- Lots of people care about the NCAA wrestling championships. Maybe not the OP, but many, many others do. Like PSU or hate PSU, that was one helluva performance in St. Louis.
-- Nobody who follows football in Pennsylvania has forgotten which team won the Pitt-PSU game last year. And when the two teams meet again in the fall, the game will have a far bigger following than it did in 2016. That's good for both programs.
