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Nevertheless, the games have been super-competitive, particularly since 1963 when Pitt finally agreed to playing the series on a home-and-home basis. Talk about inaccessible … that’s inaccessible! A prominent Eastern sportswriter once said that you got to WVU by taking a flight into Pittsburgh and then “swinging by vines” down to Morgantown. Before the construction of I-79, however, college football’s elite usually steered clear of attending West Virginia games in Morgantown because of the city’s inaccessibility. To amplify this point, there are not many college football rivals that are situated closer than Pitt and West Virginia, the two schools separated by only 75 miles of interstate highway.

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Last spring, Athlon Sports listed the 25 greatest college football rivalries of all-time and the Backyard Brawl was ranked 11th – this despite the game not being played since Barack Obama was living in the White House!ĭo you realize this football game has produced 126 first-team All-Americans, 37 College Football and 12 Pro Football Hall of Fame members (soon to be 13 when Chuck Howley finally gets his due) and more than 450 NFL players?ĭo you know that every game since 1995 has appeared on national television, that the two schools have a combined 58 bowl game appearances through the 2011 season and that from 1950 until 2011, at least one team has been nationally ranked in 26 of the games? By the way, you can add another one when West Virginia and 17th-ranked Pitt hook up as soon as the calendar flips to September. Back in 2011, when Pitt left the Big East for the Atlantic Coast Conference and West Virginia followed suit by joining the Big 12 a few months later, there was a feeling that this football game was going to be put on hold for a while until the dust settled. Long considered among the most colorful rivalries in college football history, the Pitt-West Virginia football game was one of the sad casualties of realignment a decade ago. There have been some pauses in the rivalry … three years in the late 1890s, a couple of years between 1910-13 and again between 1913-17, then a four-year interruption from 1939-43 when Pitt was seeking membership in the Western Conference (Big Ten) and needed to make room on its schedule in hopes of an invitation that was never to come.īut never has the pause button remained on for as long as the current hiatus, which finally ends next Thursday night at Acrisure Stadium in Pittsburgh.

– It has been 11 long years, but Pitt week is once again nearly upon us.