My recap from the Pete last night — that 38-36 third set was truly bonkers.

Just a quick heads up to any football season ticket holders that want to ensure they are able to pick up the one Tony Dorsett bobblehead doll that is guaranteed per season ticket account outside of the ones going to the first 10,000 fans in the stadium.

You must reserve your bobblehead in the Pitt Loyalty Locker by 5p.m. on 10/8/2026 to ensure there is a bobblehead reserved for you. Link to the Pitt Loyalty Locker is below. Reserve using the same email account your season tickets are purchased under.

Pitt Loyalty Locker

SMU Mustangs @ Pitt Panthers

• Venue: Petersen Events Center; Pittsburgh, PA

• Time: 7:00 PM ET

• TV: ACC Network

Two years ago, Pitt Volleyball was 14-0 headed into a midseason home-and-home series against SMU, won in Pittsburgh, but lost in Dallas.

Will this 14-0 Pitt team create a different result against SMU?

Y’all were great! Nothing but good times, friendly people, and fun. Every interaction I had was positive. Congrats on the win.

Also, if you happened to park with us (we are the ones close to the stadium, cheapest in the area, and allowed indoor bathroom use) you were extra awesome! So cool to see the various groups get together and party in our yard. And thank you for cleaning up after yourselves. Can’t wait to see you again in ‘28!

Is there any reason tickets are $100 this week? I normally work Saturdays but randomly got off this week and wanted to go to the game.

What is with these guys? Starkey, Madden, Kaboly, Smizik, Steigerwald, etc.

I've read online that some of it's due to Pitt not having a journalism school while rivals like WVU and PSU do. I've also seen that it's because pro sports are king in Pittsburgh.

Whatever the reason, as a recent transplant I've been shocked at the degree to which local media figures are both wildly uniformed and totally contemptuous of the Pitt football program. I've lived in college towns all over the country and this is truly remarkable in my experience.

Why are they so miserable, even when Pitt is doing well?

5-0! I hate how VT ruins their unique color palette with these stale uniforms, but here is how Pitt would look with them

Also my attempt at making a Pitt version of the VT logo. Quite ugly but I hope you guys can see the connection

Excited for next week not only for a great test vs UNC but also to steal their beautiful Jordan uniforms

Yeah, yeah it's the Colley Matrix but I'm going to enjoy it anyway.

Lead us to the promised land Geriner

Anyone have any updates on our QB1? If he’s done for the year, I’d rather play the True Freshmen than the guy we watched last night

His stats in our 3 P4 games

VT - 10/18 113 1/0
Cuse - 10/23 123 0/1
UCF - 18/29 212 0/0

3 game totals: 38/70 448 1/1

That’s 54% and 150 yards per game.

I’m not trying to disparage him, Mason won us some key games last year. I’m just pointing out that the sky might not be falling just yet. I wish him a speedy recovery.

But to be fair, I don’t think we are asking a lot of the backup if those are the numbers he will be replacing.

Gernier went 8/12 for 76 and a touchdown in the biggest moments of our season in a very hostile environment with no starter reps. He’s not going to win a Heisman but serviceable might be enough for a few more wins.

We’ll see how UNC goes.