WVU v. Pitt: Trick or treat? (Postgame updates)
November 25, 2011 by Mike CasazzaLouisville and South Florida set the table today with their 11 a.m. game and WVU’s chances for the BCS are enhanced if the Bulls find a way to show up, care and try and also beat the Cardinals. Whatever the outcome, you’ll know a lot more about what’s at stake tonight once the appetizer is digested. Bobby Eveld is, as he was last year, your man today.
If Louisville wins, WVU needs to win out and have Cincinnati win out to get to the BCS. If USF wins, WVU still needs to win out and that’s it, though there are some tiebreakers the Mountaineers could fall back should they lose to get to the BCS.
Now as for tonight, there’s some different language coming out of the Pitt athletic department. WVU athletic director Oliver Luck has said all the proactive and optimistic things about the Future of the Backyard Brawl, but his counterpart sounds a little less convinced this series can continue.
“I’d say it’s pretty mixed, just in an initial response to it,” he said, when asked what he’s hearing from Pitt fans. “People feel both ways. It’s been a good game. But if it doesn’t make sense, it doesn’t make sense.”
I don’t know how it doesn’t make sense, especially with the changing dynamics in scheduling and conference affiliation and finances and recruiting, but, whatever. What I know is this is somehow a swing game for the conference championship and if it’s the last time the Mountaineers and the Panthers go at it for a while, at least there’s something to it.
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