Saturday will be the 108th meeting of the Backyard Brawl between Pitt and West Virginia, one of the famous rivalries in college football. It’s been going for four years strong now, but after this year, the rivalry will be postponed to 2029. For a couple of years, the biggest rivalry in college sports won’t happen.

During the week leading up to the final game before the break, there’s been conversations about potentially continuing the series into 2027. It’s hard because football schedules are planned so far in advance.

However, there was an opening. Recently, WVU’s series with Alabama, which was a home-and-home agreement that was supposed to happen in 2027 and 2028, was cancelled because of a new scheduling system for the SEC.

Talk immediately started about how the Backyard Brawl could

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