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BACKYARD BRAWL PREVIEW: West Virginia and Pittsburgh set to renew one of college football’s greatest rivalries

The Brawl is back. It's hard to put into words what that sentence means. It's hating Jordan Addison from a distance for winning the Biletnikoff almost a decade after Stedman Bailey was snubbed. It's bus rides to Heinz Field, and one of my buddies dumping a full big gulp on a chirping Pitt fan in late November. It's Chad Johnston to Zach Abraham, 69 yards from Amos Zereoue, and Rasheed Marshall to John Pennington. It's "We just gotta run faster", and Pat White mocking the panther. It’s 13-9.

There's joy. There's heartbreak. There's hatred. Ahhh, the hatred. You can almost hear Emperor Palpatine.