I’m struggling with how I want to look at this football game.  On the one hand, Tech played a sloppy, ugly football game and lost, so I’m very upset.  On the other hand, it turned out exactly as I thought it would, and from that standpoint it’s tough to get mad about something you expected to happen.

Here is one of my closing paragraphs from the game preview…

“No matter who wins, I think this game is going to be pretty ugly. When we look back in the 2014 season, good or bad, my guess is that we’ll be able to say that the Pitt game was the ugliest of the year. I don’t expect a pretty football game on Thursday night. Pitt can’t throw it, Tech can’t run it, both teams commit penalties, neither team hits big plays, the Hokies are banged up, etc. It doesn’t sound as if it’s going to be very entertaining, unless of course you have a rooting interest as we all do.”

And then the final prediction…

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