Friday highlights. Somewhere in between a 5 min conversation and review of which down it is by the refs Pitt goes into halftime w/ another dominating performance and 24-6 lead against Syracuse. They had 8 sacks by the middle of the 3rd quarter. Babers benches DeVito more out pity than anything. Then of course the 3rd quarter came, somehow Pitt is outscoring teams like 200-14 in the 2ndQ and getting outscored by the opposite number in the 3rd.
So anyway the backup QB is in and the Pitt D just continues the onslaught. Then for no reason at all Pitt does a safety blitz on 3rd and 15/cover 0 (its always cover 0 here) when SU is at their own 6. 94 yd TD. Backup Cuse QB then discovers the chuck it deep for long yards and/or PI offense (finishes up 8/23 for 175yds and 4 PIs - in Pitt's defense the reffing was really bad - worse than the Duke-Pitt game).
Pitt survives the 3rd and gets a FG in the middle of the 4th. SU is on their last legs late in the game when Pitt plays press man-to-man on 4th and 25 (which of course because as a child Pat Narduzzi liked to play with knifes; this one time he even severed his own artery and liked the adrenaline rush of being covered in blood and so close to death) the ball lands in Rochester but Pitt gets a PI and SU then scores TD to make it 7. Pitt then gets the running game going and is about to run out the clock, they aren't going to fumble are they? Oh don't give Pitt a dare.
I lol'd because at this point I had utmost confidence that Pitt is going to win this. Because lately we've gotten pretty good at pulling out the stupidest games in the most stupid way possible. And whatdayaknow, despite 0 angles to confirm that it wasn't a fumble the ACC random number review generator gave Pitt the ball back. 27-20.