Pitt Predicted to Miss Bowl Game
PITTSBURGH -- The Pitt Panthers are currently riding a three-game losing streak, their longest in almost three years and with a tough ACC schedule still ahead of them, their chances of making a bowl game are in question.
In fact, Action Network's Brett McMurphy has dropped the Panthers down a peg in his weekly bowl projections after each of their three loses until he eventually dropped them this week. Pitt went from Holiday Bowl hopeful to a return to the Sun Bowl to the Military Bowl and now isn't projected to earn a bowl bid at all.
The path to five more wins is foggy for the Panthers currently. They are favored to beat Virginia Tech - who is fresh off a loss on the road to Marshall - this weekend at Lane Stadium in Blacksburg, Virginia.
But following the bye week, they host a Louisville team that is currently 4-0. After visiting Wake Forest, they'll draw back-to-back opponents currently ranked in the top-15, No. 11 Notre Dame and No. 5 Florida State. Then Pitt will head to New York City to face Syracuse at a neutral site before wrapping up the regular season at current No. 17 Duke, a game that looks much tougher than it did at the beginning of the season.
ESPN's Football Power Index predicts the Panthers to win just four total games this season and gives them a 14.2% chance to reach six wins.
Head coach Pat Narduzzi's teams tend to finish seasons better than they begin them, but it will take a Herculean effort to right this ship, especially with starting quarterback Phil Jurkovec dealing with an injury.
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