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Bowl Game Return Predicted for Pitt in 2024

The Pitt Panthers could get back to the postseason in 2024 after a disappointing 2023 campaign.

Stephen Thompson

Bowl Game Return Predicted for Pitt in 2024
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PITTSBURGH -- The Pitt Panthers have a lot of questions to answer as they look ahead to the start of spring practices and the 2024 season, but at least one forecaster has a positive outlook on what they will do in 2024. 

Action Network's Brett McMurphy predicts the Panthers will play in the Gasparilla Bowl in Tampa, Florida in 2024, where they'd face Tulane. It'd be a welcome return to the postseason for this program after a rough 2023 season and offseason. 

Oddsmakers are not exactly bullish on Pitt's chances of returning to a bowl game next season after a disappointing 2023 campaign that ended in the worst record of head coach Pat Narduzzi's tenure and massive coaching staff turnover.  

They'll be breaking in a litany of new coaches but they'll retain some of their most important pieces. Three safeties, two defensive ends, four linebackers, four offensive linemen, two quarterbacks, three wide receivers and a running back with starting experience will return, so there are plenty of reasons for some optimism, especially with a new offensive coordinator that is expected to pull Pitt's offense out of the two-year rut it's been trapped in. 

Getting back to a bowl game would represent a major, necessary turnaround for a proud program that took a massive step back in 2023.  

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Stephen Thompson
STEPHEN THOMPSON

Stephen Thompson graduated with a bachelor's degree in communications and political science from Pitt in April 2022 after spending four years as a sports writer and editor at The Pitt News, the University of Pittsburgh's independent, student-run newspaper.  He primarily worked the Pitt men's basketball beat, and filled in on coverage of football, volleyball, softball, gymnastics and lacrosse, in addition to other sports as needed. His work at The Pitt News has won awards from the Pennsylvania News Media Association and Associated College Press.  During the spring and summer of 2021, Stephen interned for Pittsburgh Sports Now, covering baseball in western Pennsylvania. Hailing from Washington D.C., family ties have cultivated a love of Boston's professional teams and Pitt athletics, and a fascination with sports in general.  You can reach Stephen by email at stephenethompson00@gmail.com and follow him on Twitter. Read his latest work:

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