Runner-Up in the New Era Irrelevance Bowl

[PittSquared]

Our capper for the season is playing a 6-6 team at 2:00 p.m. on a Wednesday in a baseball stadium. And losing. This constitutes a a good year for Pitt football.

I can take losing to the dregs of the Big Ten with a glorified WPIAL team, but we are 40 years from playing a game with any type of national championship consequences. That's what really depresses me.

 

[Chairman Moe]

Well, with the BCS Playoff Games (or whatever the heck they're calling it these days), there really are only three games that have any national consequence. I suppose that if we had finished runner-up in the ACC and had an invite to the Orange Bowl, it would be something to relish. But now - with the plethora of mid-tier and participation trophy bowls - the whole post-season is basically a means for the networks selling more ads; the venue and host sponsors trying to fill the stadiums as best they can; alumni traveling to (hopefully) a fun area; and the team getting another 4-6 weeks of practice. But despite our loss; even a win today would have gone relatively unnoticed by 99.5% of the population. It sucks to lose, but unless you're playing a more "traditional" football school (or at least one that has a history of success, and the bowl game is one of the "biggies") the majority of the bowl games are just "meh"