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Saunders: This Isn't the City Game Anyone Was Asking For

by: Alan Saunders08/29/25ASaunders_PGH
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Pitt football takes the field at Acrisure Stadium. September 21. 2024 -- David Hague / PSN

PITTSBURGH -- The press release heralding the upcoming season-opening game between the Pittsburgh Panthers and the Duquesne Dukes hit my inbox last Wednesday, and with all respect to Mike Annarella, who has done as good of a job as is imaginable in replacing legendary Pitt SID E.J. Borghetti, I regret to inform the audience that the press release was missing two words. Pitt publicized its first-in-86-years game with their Fifth Avenue cohorts as a part of a greater celebration of “Pittsburgh Day.”