Neal Brown knows how important it is to keep the rivalry with Pitt going.
will make the short trip up to Acrisure Stadium to face the Pitt Panthers in the Backyard Brawl. Following next year's Brawl in Morgantown, the rivalry will be interrupted for three years before returning to Pittsburgh in 2029.
Today, WVU head coach Neal Brown was asked about the upcoming interruption and hinted at that possibly changing in the near future. "We've got to get our schedule fixed and we're in the process of doing that. But yeah, I think it's a series that needs to be played. It's important. I think Pitt wants to play it. We want to play it. College football is so up in the air nobody really knows what the future looks like, but if we stay on this we can play nine conference games and you play another Power Four, I think it makes sense for us to play the game.
"We're in the process," he added when asked further about it. "Hell, we got Alabama...that ain't fixed." Pitt has one open slot for a non-conference game in 2026, and two in 2027 and 2028. West Virginia's non-conference is full in 2026 and 2027 but has two open slots in 2028.Publisher of Mountaineers Now on FanNation/Sports Illustrated. Lead recruiting expert and co-host of Between the Eers, Walk Thru GameDay Show, Mountaineers Now Postgame Show, and In the Gun Podcast.
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