Pitt has announced its football schedule for 2011. Well, sort of. No start times are set. The Big East game dates aren’t set. But the dates for the non-con games have been announced.
| Date | Opponent | Time |
| September 3 | Buffalo | TBA |
| September 10 | Maine | TBA |
| September 17 | at Iowa | TBA |
| September 24 | Notre Dame | TBA |
| October 15 | Utah | TBA |
The Big East dates will be announced next month. We do know that Pitt will be on the road to West Virginia, Louisville, and Rutgers. While there will be four home games with Cinci, Syracuse, USF and UConn.
That’s eight home games with the new coaching staff and offensive style.
PantherLair has the schedule for the next few years right here. With TCU coming aboard in 2012, it looks like Pitt is going to need to move a non-con game slated for 2013.
“Big East commissioner John Marinatto tells ESPN.com blogger Brian Bennett that the conference could add a 10th football member before learning Villanova’s decision on whether that school will upgrade its program to Division I-A. That means that by the time the Wildcats are ready to announce, at the end of April, the league might already be at its ideal size.
“We’re not waiting for Villanova,” Marinatto said. “It’s their institutional decision to make, and they have a process set up to make it. They’ve got to determine what’s in their best interest, and we’ve got to determine what’s in our best interest. … If the right situation developed in between, we would move on it. That’s a very real possibility. We’re not going to make a decision or not make a decision based on Villanova’s study.”
The long-rumored next school on the Big East’s list is Central Florida, which has been clamoring for a BCS-conference bid for years now. Bennett says that because it would take Nova several years to attain full I-A status, the conference could add the Golden Knights now and then fold the Wildcats in when they are ready. (We imagine if that happens, the league would add a 12th team so that it could split into division.)
Meanwhile, Mike Bianchi of the Orlando Sentinel puts a bit of a damper on the news, writing that it certainly appears as if South Florida is trying to block Central Florida’s entry into the Big East.”
North: Pitt, WVU, Cuse, Rutgers, UConn, Nova
South: Cincy, Louisville, USF, UCF, TCU, Houston
I don’t think they have the national clout they used to have, and I would think their own football deal is not what it used to be. If they come in you still can add Nova and UCF and if not put Houston in the mix.
The Dome is not all golden any more.
If they
Jimbo, no fan interest? No increased TV coverage or TV revenues? No nuttin’, eh?
North and South… Too predictable
Papists and Publics…too inflammatory
Has Beens and Never Weres…not nice, and hopefully not accurate.
East and Not So Much…geographically accurate, but cumbersome
Any one got any good ideas? Clearly, I don’t.
City: Pitt, Cinci, Louisville, ‘Cuse, Nova
State: Rutgers, UConn, WVU, USF, TCU
That also works if Houston and UCF eventually become members
