A Penn State vs ND season ending rivalry game every year would be great. One can dream.
Rivalry Weekend...Tons of Tradition.
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Why try to fix a problem that does not exist? Penn State is guaranteed to play either Ohio State or Michigan every year for the foreseeable future. In addition, big time programs like Oregon and USC will rotate on the schedule. These will be exciting and interesting games attractive to a national audience.
Pitt is irrelevant and has been irrelevant for the past 40 years. The vast majority of Penn State fans have zero interest in playing lower level programs like Pitt.
Let’s focus on beating the current big boy programs in the B1G conference.
Pitt is irrelevant and has been irrelevant for the past 40 years. The vast majority of Penn State fans have zero interest in playing lower level programs like Pitt.
Let’s focus on beating the current big boy programs in the B1G conference.
I'm so excited. While Georgia plays Georgia Tech....Texas plays Texas A&M....Ohio State plays Michigan.....Bama plays Auburn etc etc.....we play the mighty Rutgers in New New Jersey.
tOSU would have been a good rival. But you have to actually beat them once in a while.
I disagree...with us in the Big Ten if we play anyone with a pulse in the nonconference I want it to be someone good. Not Pitt. Beating Pitt does nothing for us. Recruiting is also no longer local but playing Pitt only helps their ability to recruit not us. Doesn't make me right...I just completely disagree. I don't see a single benefit to us.
So playing Nevada, FIU, Villanova and Rutgers are beneficial. Thanks for explaining that for me.
No...they aren't and those games are garbage but they need to be replaced with legit games.
If you're argument is playing Pitt is better than those first 3 you're right but there's an ton of better options than Pitt. ND, any SEC team, Georgia Tech, BYU, Miami, Clemson, FSU, Louisville...
Pitt and WVU aren't good games...just nostalgia
Rutgers or Pitt is a wash
Well, for what it's worth...Pitt won the ACC in 2021, played for another championship in 2018 and if they beat Miami today will be playing for another ACC Championship. Its not the SEC nor the Big Ten, but its hardly irrelevant my friend.
For us...we gain nothing from it
What significance do you believe exists?
In 2025, the ACC is basically irrelevant which is why the allow ND to do whatever they want.
Cant really be a rival when the series is so lopsided - butgers should have Rowan as their rivalry game.
In for playing Pitt. Gives the kids we recruit a chance to play in front of family and friends and it’s a great rivalry record notwithstanding. Rutgers - no thanks.
And Pitt didn’t help by becoming a middle of the road ACC team.
..which also why the ACC is on life support and will he dissolved soon and against your wishes, Pitt will eventually end up in the Big Ten along with a few others. Clemson, Georgia Tech and others will join the SEC. Eventually there will be only 2 mega conferences.
Why is that against my wishes? I pray for that.
I would love to see the ACC and Big Ten destroyed and if Pitt joins the big Ten that's fine with me
I want two superconferences and have for a decade if not longer.
Then the ACC/Big XII leftovers can create and awesome second league with their own playoff and champion--it's perfect.
Really confused why you thought I was against that. It's a dream come true and so long overdue.
I think I conflicted your adversarial view of playing Pitt with them joining the Big Ten. Eventually I believe both will occur. Pitt will be in the Big Ten and we will be playing them on a rotational schedule if not every year.
That I'm fine with but I'm not okay with us scheduling them as an OOC game when they want a 1v1. I'd rather schedule an SEC team or ND. That can't be our big OOC game. Pitt is basically Rutgers in that scenario.
Where we disagree is I dont think Pitt gets in. They'd have to expand to 32 teams in each conference for that to happen.
Eventually there will only be 2 mega conferences with a divisional setup. The cores of these conferences will be the Big Ten and SEC. I don't see Pitt going g to the southern mega conference.
Before the B1G replaced Colorado with Iowa for Nebraska’s season finale rival, I had wished that they would put us together each season after Thanksgiving. Historically, there’s some things to build a rivalry on. But, oh well.
I have to say that I do not like having no traditional rival to end the season with. “Unrivaled” feels kind of lame this time of year.
I have to say that I do not like having no traditional rival to end the season with. “Unrivaled” feels kind of lame this time of year.
Could PSU do better than Pitt? Surely they could.
But that is not at issue. At issue is PSU has a complete dud end of season game - and Pitt (or any number of other possibilities) would be a huge improvement. Pitt would be the easiest one to schedule, for as long as PSU would want to. Other possibilities would be nice, but require a bit more effort on the part of PSU ICA.
Maybe the next head coach will not insist on having a cupcake parade for OOC scheduling. That would be nice. Time will tell.
In the meantime, just about anything is better than the current scheduling wasteland. Anyone who can't see that isn't looking very hard.
But that is not at issue. At issue is PSU has a complete dud end of season game - and Pitt (or any number of other possibilities) would be a huge improvement. Pitt would be the easiest one to schedule, for as long as PSU would want to. Other possibilities would be nice, but require a bit more effort on the part of PSU ICA.
Maybe the next head coach will not insist on having a cupcake parade for OOC scheduling. That would be nice. Time will tell.
In the meantime, just about anything is better than the current scheduling wasteland. Anyone who can't see that isn't looking very hard.