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I should have gone with my gut. On TribLive radio we have a football prediction competition and I went into the weekend in second place.

Last Thursday, my gut told me to go with Pitt but I was talked out of it and went with South Florida.

I picked Pitt over Rutgers early in the week and then my gut told me on Friday to go with Rutgers.  I stuck with Pitt.

From now on I go with my gut.

Pitt laying worse than the 34-10 score indicates makes you wonder how overrated South Florida actually was.

As you probably know, around here we don’t count rent-a-victim wins. Those games only count when the renter loses.

That makes Pitt 1-3 and I’m sorry, but that stinks.

How many years and under how many coaches has this been going on?

Why can’t Pitt stand prosperity? Why does an embarrassing loss always pop up just when the program looks like it’s making progress?

You’ll know the Pitt football program has made major strides when you don’t hear a woman calling play-by-play for its games.

Sorry, I hit the mute button today as soon as I heard a female voice doing the play-by-play.

I don’t know her name and the few times I’ve forced myself to listen, she sounds like she does a good enough job.

I would rather have either Sarah Palin or Michelle Bachman in the White House than Barack Obama, but, call me a sexist pig, if you’d like, I just don’t want to hear a female voice describing a football game.

Give the West Virginia football fans credit.

They were smart enough to stay away in droves from last week’s game with Bowling Green.

The head coach, Dana Holgorsen, ripped them for not showing up.

It was cold and rainy and it was going to be a blowout and he scolded them for being smart enough to stay home.

They still drew 46,000 which is about 40,000 more than the game deserved.

Bowling Green is actually pretty good as rent-a-victims go. Just ask Pitt.

But the only cure for stupid scheduling is empty seats.

If you’re a Pitt fan, how can you not like the move to the ACC?

Call me crazy, but I’ll take Florida State, Miami, Virgina Tech over South Florida, UCONN, Louisville and Cincinnati in football and I’m OK with trading UCONN and Georgetown for Duke and North Carolina in basketball.

The Big East has been a football joke for way too long and Pitt has enough challenges when it comes to selling tickets without trying to get people excited about South Florida and Rutgers.

It will be a lot harder for Pitt to win the ACC football championship, but the ACC should make Pitt a better sell to recruits and that should mean better players coming here in the long run .

Any chance we could get Pitt in the Big East for this football season?

Until further notice, Pitt stinks.

If you’re going to bore people to death by playing teams like Buffalo and Maine, you had better bore them with ridiculous blowouts.

If you can’t do better than one touchdown in the first half against Buffalo and you need two dropped TD passes to help you win the game, you stink.

Just as you stink when you win seven games and two of them are against teams like Buffalo and Maine. That means you actually won five games and that means you stink.

Sorry.

It’s the first game with a new coach and blah, blah blah and maybe the two exhibition games will make Pitt a much better team and blah, blah, blah, but that doesn’t change the fact that this team picked up where it left off last year under Dave Wannstedt.

Right now it stinks.

If I were the athletic director at Pitt, Todd Graham would have been fired at half time.

That’s because I would have made it clear to him when he was hired that, if he ever punted from inside his opponents 40-yard line, he would be fired.

He did it twice in the first quarter.

Against a team that was 2-10 last season and shouldn’t be on his schedule.

That’s disturbing.

Now there is talk of Pitt moving to the Big 12 conference.

The Pitt Athletic Department released a big no comment and that’s a lot different from releasing a “no way that’s happening.”

Put me down for being in favor of Pitt joining whatever major conference comes calling. Anything to get out of the Big East.

I’ll trade South Florida, Rutgers, Cincinnati, and UCON for Texas, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Texas Tech any time. And the basketball ain’t bad, either.

Joe Butler of Metro Index Scouting Service has some thoughts on the Big East Football Conference.