ESPN spent the weekend in Pittsburgh when the Panthers took on Syracuse a few weeks ago, and it’s the ACC Network now spending the weekend in the Steel City.
ACC PM, the network’s daily news and information show, will be live at Gallagher Plaza at 4 p.m. Friday afternoon.
The ACC Huddle Tailgate will be live at “Roc’n on Rooney” on Saturday from 2-8 p.m. Taylor Tannebaum hosts the Huddle and is joined by analysts Eric Mac Lain, EJ Manuel, Mark Richt and Eddie Royal.
A variety of prizes will be available for students, and a t-shirt giveaway will take place for all fans.
Pitt is back on the ACC Network this weekend against Virginia, with a chance for some redemption. Wes Durham will handle play-by-play duties, Tom Luginbill will serve as his analyst and Dana Boyle will report from the sideline.
It’s a bounce-back opportunity for the Panthers, following the first loss of the season — in devastating fashion. A loss is one thing, and the season certainly isn’t over, but SMU beat the brakes off the Panthers. It wasn’t close.
If Pitt is truly rebound this season, with four games remaining on the schedule, it will start against Virginia.
Virginia is 4-4 (2-3 ACC), and the Cavaliers have lost three straight games — 24-20 against Louisville, 48-31 against Clemson and 41-14 against North Carolina. UVA is one of the weaker teams in the conference, but it’s still a game that Pitt needs to win. It’s just the next game for Pat Narduzzi.
“The message is it’s one game,” Narduzzi said Saturday night. “And like I kind of started off at the beginning, it’s hard to win every week. It’s hard to be on every week. And maybe as a team and a staff, we didn’t handle success. I always say the hardest thing is to handle success. Our guys will handle adversity, and this is adversity, and our guys will bounce back.
“You could see it in the locker room, they’re not discouraged. I told them I loved them, and I love them as much or more as game 1 or game 7, and we win as a team and we lose as a team.”
Kickoff against Virginia is set for 8 p.m. at Acrisure Stadium, and there are two ranked matchups left this season against Clemson and Louisville.
The Offense better straighten up, or it’s gonna be a long long rest of the season