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One hundred years after the Panthers and Syracuse met on a football field at Yankee Stadium, the teams will highlight their respective ACC schedules as they run it back from the Bronx on Nov. 11:
2023 Schedule Update ✍️
— Pitt Football (@Pitt_FB) January 30, 2023
100 years after their first meeting at @YankeeStadium, Pitt and Syracuse will meet in The Bronx once again.
11.11.23#H2P » @ACCFootball pic.twitter.com/jgdvdNneiv
This will be the second-ever meeting between the teams at Yankee Stadium. Syracuse claimed a 3-0 win in the first edition on Oct. 20, 1923. The teams also shared a game at Shea Stadium in Queens on Oct. 30, 1965, in which Syracuse won 51-13. Those are the only two other instances of a neutral-site game between the Panthers and Orange(men), with the 2023 edition being the third.
The Panthers' return to the Bronx is just the top highlight of a loaded ACC slate for Pitt in 2023, which was revealed in full on Monday on the ACC Network. The 12-game slate begins on Sept. 2 at home against FCS foe Wofford. The Panthers' open week is in Week 6, the weekend of Oct. 6.
Here is the full 2023 Pitt football schedule. Nonconference games are italicized:
• Sept. 2: Wofford
• Sept. 9: Cincinnati
• Sept. 16: at West Virginia
• Sept. 23: North Carolina
• Sept. 30: at Virginia Tech
• Oct. 7: OPEN
• Oct. 14: Louisville
• Oct. 21: at Wake Forest
• Oct. 28: at Notre Dame
• Nov. 4: Florida State
• Nov. 11: at Syracuse (at Yankee Stadium)
• Nov. 16 (Thurs.): Boston College
• Nov. 25: at Duke
What is... Pitt's 2023 Schedule❓
— Pitt Football (@Pitt_FB) January 31, 2023
🎟️: https://t.co/ToTbMyT9dg#H2P » @ACCFootball pic.twitter.com/x0KTxM4ODe
Pitt also announced on Monday the date and time for its annual Blue-Gold Spring Game. It will be played at 1 p.m. on April 15 at Acrisure Stadium.
2023 Schedule Update ✍️
— Pitt Football (@Pitt_FB) January 30, 2023
Pitt's Blue-Gold Spring Game
presented by https://t.co/6TdqLLgN2K
4.15.23 » 1 p.m. » @AcrisureStadium #H2P » @ACCFootball pic.twitter.com/jphK4tSBr6
The travel schedule is relatively light for the front-half of the season, as the lone plane ride the Panthers will have to take is the rather short one to Blacksburg, Va., at the end of September. Out of the open week, however, comes three roadtrips in the span of five weeks, including the trek to South Bend, Ind. for Notre Dame and to the Bronx for Syracuse. Pitt is on the road for four of its final seven games to close the regular season.
Pitt opposes four Power Five opponents in September before its open week. The Panthers' final home game is a Thursday night affair against Phil Jurkovec's (most-recent) former school, Boston College, and it will be broadcast on ESPN. That game comes on a shortened week following the trip to Yankee Stadium.
Pitt's social media team certainly had fun with the schedule release. It tweeted the "Jeopardy!" themed game-by-game thread in piecemeal throughout the evening as the schedule came out:
Pitt 2023 Schedule Reveal❓
— Pitt Football (@Pitt_FB) January 31, 2023
Game 3. September 16. Away.
Answer: The Backyard Brawl.
Who is… West Virginia?#H2P » @ACCFootball pic.twitter.com/4vJPn9GF0q
Pitt went 4-2 against common opponents West Virginia, North Carolina, Virginia Tech, Louisville, Syracuse, and Duke in 2022. Wofford, Cincinnati, Wake Forest, Notre Dame, Florida State, and Boston College are the newcomers to the schedule.
This is the first of at least four seasons in which the ACC will play in a 3-5-5 format without football divisions. The top two teams overall in the ACC standings will oppose each other for the ACC Championship game. Under this model, Pitt will have Syracuse, Boston College, and Virginia Tech as permanent opponents on its schedule in each season through 2026.
More (way-too-early) analysis on how Pitt could fare with this schedule can be found in our breakdown from last Thursday.
