See everything Pat Narduzzi had to say about Pitt's bowl selection:

This is now twice this season a mid-major has made Pitt look like a scrappy mid-major trying to pull an upset on their own home court....

I no longer think the prestige or hierarchy of bowl games matter much these days. Anything outside the playoffs kind of feels the same. So for people up in arms about the Military Bowl seems trivial. It’s drivable. Go watch if you want. Win the game, end with nine wins. Etc.

Annapolis, it is. For the fifth time ever and first time since 1992, Pitt and ECU will meet on a football field:

Official Pitt (8-4) vs. East Carolina (8-4) in the Go Bowling Military Bowl. Saturday December 27th at 11 a.m. on ESPN Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium

This is starting to feel like Annapolis

Seven members of Pitt’s 2026 signing class are still alive for their respective state titles:

Pitt signed 21 recruits yesterday, but here are five guys I have my eye on as freshmen who potentially step up in year one:

Instant reaction: Pitt announces 21 commitments for the class of 2026. Five takeaways from signing day morning:

We expected Pitt to sign 20 prospects today, the Panthers are now at 21. That should be it with Bryan Hamilton closing it down.

Pitt got a signing day surprise. Tony Forney, a three-star DB from Georgia who was pledged to Missouri flipped his commitment to Pitt on signing day. Forney reportedly had 21 other power-four offers. Nice recruiting pull at the last second by the Pitt staff

11 down, nine to go...

Five down, 15 to go.

Good morning. Today (12/3) is signing day, much earlier than usual. Currently Pitt has 20 commitments in the class of 2026 and the expectation is that all of them will sign at some point today.

Five thoughts from Pitt's regular season finale loss to Miami:

Me in a few weeks when Pitt is playing in the Pinstripe Bowl and I’m working at an open air press box in December.

It's college football, you should be allowed to have emotion after a big third down pass break up. BUT You can't give a flag-happy officiating crew a reason to throw another one.

Heintschel is tossing a football at halftime.

Weird to call timeouts on defense just to run the clock on offene. Halftime at Acrsiure. Pitt is down 10 points and maybe a quarterback to the No. 12 team in the country.

Not going to get the flag on this, but Miami ran a good pick route there. Louis was taken out by a different Miami wide receiver and that allowed Toney to be that open. Good scheming there by the 'Canes

I didn't know what to expect out of Justin Holmes when he transferred from Marshall, but he's caught touchdowns in Pitt's two biggest games of the year.

It was pretty obviously a first down on the field. Then the ACC stopped the next play, on what was going to be another big gain for Pitt.

So far in today's game Pitt has been called for: Delay of Game Illegal block below the wait Both of those calls happened on DEFENSE...

Six minutes into the game: Pitt: -12 total yards Miami: 1 total yard

Carson Beck has been sacked seven times this season coming into today. Miami's first possession ends on a 15-yard sack by Pitt's Isaiah Neal.

**Update** Sean FitzSimmons is not dressed.

Pitt is expected to have Desmond Reid, Trey Butkowski, Francis Brewu and Ryan Carretta available against Miami. Only Sean FitzSimmons is listed as a 'game time decision' ahead of today's game:

I was given Pitt's senior day list and starting center and notably senior captain Lyndon Cooper is not listed, suggesting there is a possibility he returns to the program for a third season.

Soon.

See what Jeff Capel, Jake Diebler, Damarco Minor and Barry Dunning Jr. had to say about tonight's 67-66 Pitt win:

Quick recap from The Pete:

Cam Corhen is up to 14 points and 10 rebounds, his fourth double-double in eight games.

I'm guessing it's not something either side will extend. But Pitt/OSU Black Friday Basketball every year wouldn't be the worst new tradition to start annually.

How it looks on paper

Panthers doing well on the glass with a 15-11 edge thus far. Ohio State is just 6-18 from the floor with four turnovers. Pitt is doing good work on defense The scary thing is, Ohio State can probably bang like 5-6 three-pointers in a row at any point in this game.

Based off the first 10 minutes, it doesn't seem like the type of game Damarco Minor can take a break. Panthers basically did not get one good look when he was on the bench.

I don't know if this will last for 40 minutes, but that was probably the best 4 minutes I watched Pitt play this season.

Pitt's starters for the Ohio State game: Damarco Minor Omari Witherspoon Barry Dunning Jr. Roman Siulepa Cameron Corhen

A Pitt spokesperson confirmed Brandin Cummings is OUT tonight

I did not spot Brandin Cummings for the early portion of warmups. He has missed two of Pitt's first seven games with an injury.

Wonder if they'll turn down the music at the Pete, I'm trying to watch the UGA/GT game.

The Egg Bowl is meant for Thanksgiving night. You almost have to eat a plate of leftovers to get the full effect

A big game tomorrow, a not so big game tonight and signing day next week. We touch on a little bit of everything in this week's 3-2-1 Column:

I used to scoff at lunch-eating families for Thanksgiving. But this 6:00 dinner is proving to be a challenge.

Jack White at Mr. Smalls last September = only concert I left where I simply couldn’t hear.

Doing some work on my computer and had the parade on mute and just looked up and thought, 'Is that really Busta Rhymes?'

This appeared on my Facebook timeline.

Pitt climbs back into the CFP rankings at No. 22, one spot ahead of Georgia Tech after beating the Yellow Jackets 42-28 over the weekend.

Rasheem Biles, Braylan Lovelace and Kyle Louis the past two seasons: 12 interceptions 6 touchdowns There just simply isn't a linebacker trio like that in all of college football.

I don’t know if we’re talking about this enough