The Lions' Pride

I have the same fears for OSU games.

Look, rivalries are like that. You need to be careful, alert, and on your best behavior.

I really think this rivalry should be an annual event. It should happen every Thanksgiving weekend. COME ON OB, MAKE THIS HAPPEN!

I'm all for it! Living it Pittsburgh, it will give me another chance to go to a PSU game and I would love to see Pitt fans fume that Heinz Field is more than 1/2 PSU fans!

Terrible idea if the schedule stays at 12 games - it restricts PSU's scheduling ability far too much for a "rivalry" that has lost most of its regional/national luster.

But it's actually a very good idea if the NCAA eventually goes to 13 games.

PSU needs to decide what is best for PSU.

Honestly it wouldn't bother me if we didn't play any other quality OOC opponents but I know that the majority of people wouldn't like that. I don't think it has to be a yearly thing but I would like to play them maybe 4-5 times a decade. It was just a great rivalry that I hate to see it not played every couple of years.

No recruit on the face of the earth would be induced to go to Pitt by seeing Heinz Field filled with Blue and White while Pitt proceeds to lose by 3 touchdowns to Penn State.

I think the Pac 12 has a couple decent teams.

Are you suggesting Pitt is not a quality OOC opponent!

Well, why would we need another Bama on the schedule when you have the Big10, Pac12 team, and Pitt. That sounds like enough to me.

Even without 9 conference games, the "need" to have 7 home games a year for money reasons pretty much knocks out having a set Home/Home OOC .

Beside the PAC-challenge (locked in as Home/Home) added to the 8 conference Home/Home leaves only three games for OOC.

Unless the NCAA goes to a 13th game you put yourself into a very tight hole with only two games to adjust as a "one timer" home game.

No major school would agree to a "one and done" at your place, so you knock your self out of ANY meaningful OOC schedules. Adding Pitt or any other school ,home/home,would kill any flexibility for future OOC matchups.

Beside we already play one "MAC" school in our OOC, why add another, permanently too boot?

I don't know schools like Miami, Florida, and FSU manage to all play themselves pretty regularly and it doesn't seem to hurt their scheduling too much. Would it restrict our schedule a bit ya but Pitt's really no better than a run of the mill team at this point so it's not like we would be locking ourselves into playing Alabama every year where we would then be forced to play a couple cupcakes. A schedule of Pitt and maybe a Rutgers, Syracuse, Virginia, or Maryland along with a cupcake or 2 wouldn't be that much more difficult.

Well if wanting to renew what used to be one of the best rivalries in college football in my own backyard makes me selfish so be it!

While there might be some technicalities that will prevent us from scheduling this rivalry/series longterm, I still think it's a great idea and will only help bring the rivalry back as well as increase our footprint in western PA.