As workers finished assembling stages, tweaked lighting and lined trash cans with bags with a massive crowd and national TV show descending on the North Shore for Pitt’s biggest football game in years, Myles Naylor sat quietly on a bench Friday, doing some homework on an iPad.

Naylor, 24 of York, is a Pitt graduate student studying mechanical engineering.

He also had no plans to leave this spot until the start of ESPN’s “College GameDay.”

“I didn’t want to get left out of all the excitement,” Naylor said. “Wanted to get here as early as possible. I didn’t anticipate getting here quite this early, being one of the first people here, but I don’t have anything better to do today.”

Though he arrived between 8:30-9 a.m., Naylor was unsure whether he was technically first in line. Two others

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