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Pitt did what it needed to do (barely)
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Pitt did what it needed to do (barely)

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Adam Gretz
Sep 02, 2022
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It is not overstating things to say that the Pitt football team entered the 2022 season with some of the highest preseason expectations it has had in …. God, I don’t even know how long. A long ass time. Let’s just put it that way.

They won 11 games a year ago, won the ACC, probably would have beaten a top-15 Michigan State team in the Peach Bowl had Pitt not been relegated to playing its third-string quarterback, and is returning a significant portion of that team’s core this season.

The entire starting offensive line is back. A strong stable of running backs is back. One of the nation’s best defensive lines full of absolute game-wreckers is back.

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