PITTSBURGH -- All week long, Penn State refused to call this a rivalry. Pitt embraced it.
Now, after a 42-39 win and a 341-yard rushing performance, the Panthers are the ones celebrating.
Pitt coach Pat Narduzzi -- who told ESPN earlier this week the game was “gigantic” -- earned the biggest win of his coaching career and Pitt’s most important win since upsetting Notre Dame in 2013. On the opposite sideline, it couldn’t have felt more different.