Given what I’d seen out of North Carolina tonight, I figured Pitt would need to score points to win. I’d just hoped the number needed would be closer to 24 instead of 34 and when I heard Maurice Ffrench was out for the game, I really thought that even that may be pushing it. But the Panthers ultimately gutted out a 34-27 overtime win on Thursday and, I thought, just played incredibly hard.
Before I get to the game, word on Ffrench is that he has a broken or injured jaw. While some speculation was that he could be out for the rest of the year, head coach Pat Narduzzi apparently dismissed that notion.