Pitt Still Needs an Opponent For 2025 Opener

[TheWerewolfFromTwilight]

Of course you missed something if you didn't go to YSU. You get about 7 chances to watch Pitt at home per year. That's also only 7 times someone gets to tailgate out of 52 weekends a year. You missed out on one of only 7 chances to watch Eli Holstein at home and who knows how many years, if any after this season, he'll be at Pitt, let alone watching a Pitt QB go for 247 through the air and 93 on the ground with 5 TDs. You missed Carter going for over 100 yards. You missed homecoming. You missed Pitt clinching its first undefeated out-of-conference season since it left independence and first time it started 4-0 in 24 years. You missed one of the five largest offensive outputs of yardage in Pitt football history. I don't know about you, but I've been to a lot of Pitt games, home and away, and I've not been witness to may games where Pitt has put up 70+ points and had a 50+ point margin of victory (UMass in 2021 was a 44 point margin, and yes, I bet people now realize in retrospect that soaking in every game they could in 2021 was worthwhile). Was there much drama? no, but there was history. And every game has the chance to be historic.

 

[TIGER-PAUL]

Not sure whats up in 29?

2029​

• 09/01 - Delaware
• 09/08 - West Virginia
• 09/15 - at UCF
• 09/22 - Richmond

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

Not sure whats up in 29?

2029​

• 09/01 - Delaware
• 09/08 - West Virginia
• 09/15 - at UCF
• 09/22 - Richmond

Delaware will be FBS next year

 

[Upg bobcat]

Good, I’d rather play an FBS school than an FCS school.

Yeah, the FBS school that lost at home to St. Francis. If we can't get Duquesne, Robert Morris, or Youngstown State, St. Francis is probably the next closest FCS football school.

 

[FireballZ]

Yeah, the FBS school that lost at home to St. Francis. If we can't get Duquesne, Robert Morris, or Youngstown State, St. Francis is probably the next closest FCS football school.

Sorry. You’re going on ignore. UPG and UPJ aren’t repping well on these boards.

 

[Upg bobcat]

Sorry. You’re going on ignore. UPG and UPJ aren’t repping well on these boards.

Well explain to me your thinking ... just because a football program is FBS doesn't make it better than an FCS one. The fact is Kent State is awful this year. In Sagarin, Duquesne is rated 205. Kent State is below that at 207. Youngstown State is ranked 172. Now Robert Morris and St. Francis are lower but not by much, sitting at 225 and 231 respectively. Plus St. Francis has the head-to-heard win over KSU. So YSU and Duquesne are better competition for us than Kent State, at least this season, and Bobby Mo and St. Francis really aren't much worse.

Now if the reason for hating a game against Duquesne or another FCS program is because we can get away with paying an FBS school like Kent less than FCS, that's fair, but I do not know whether that's true.

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

Well explain to me your thinking ... just because a football program is FBS doesn't make it better than an FCS one. The fact is Kent State is awful this year. In Sagarin, Duquesne is rated 205. Kent State is below that at 207. Youngstown State is ranked 172. Now Robert Morris and Youngstown State are lower but not by much, sitting at 225 and 231 respectively. So YSU and Duquense are better competition for us than Kent State, at least this season.

Now if the reason for hating a game against Duquesne or another FCS program is because we can get away with paying an FBS school like Kent less than FCS, that's fair, but I do not know whether that's true.

This year's Kent State team might be the worst FBS team of all time. They'd probably go like 2-9 in FCS. They were a 13 point underdog at home against Eastern Michigan. I know nothing about EMU but took them to cover and won $50.