Written by Matt Zemek at Bloguin
The city is Pittsburgh, but the program is affectionately known as Pitt — to the point that “Script Pitt” on Dan Marino’s helmet became a cherished college football look.
(Why it had to be abandoned is beyond me. I digress…)
Thursday night, the Steel City hosts both a game and a visiting team which bring back memories of the time when Pitt football was a very big deal in college football…
… and North Carolina also attained one of the few prime periods in its largely snake-bitten football history.
Thursday is therefore a time for sweet nostalgia and the stomach-churning nerves which accompany main-event excitement. It’s a chemical cocktail of surging optimism and the raging primal fear that everything’s going to fall to pieces, just as it has for the third of a century since these programs were both good at the same time. It wasn’t easy to forecast this before the season, but here we are: North Carolina at Pitt, in prime time, is the biggest game of the ACC Coastal Division’s season to date, and it could launch the winner to a very special season.
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