FILE – Pittsburgh’s Steve Malinchak (7) and teammates celebrate their 13-9 upset win over No. 2 West Virginia in an NCAA college football game Dec. 1, 2007, in Morgantown, W.Va. The rivalry between the longtime rivals will be renewed following an 11-year hiatus on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022, when the 17th-ranked Panthers host the Mountaineers. (AP Photo/Jeff Gentner, File)

(Pittsburgh. Pa.) The Backyard Brawl is ‘where the beast lives’ for Pitt, WVU
Tune into Beaver County Radio at tonight as  Pitt will host the West Virginia Mountaineers to renew one of college football’s oldest rivalries “The Backyard Brawl”. The series dates back to 1895 but went on a break in 2012 after both schools left the Big East for other conferences. Alumni on both sides have tried to impart the importance of the rivalry to a current crop of players that have no personal history against each other. Pitt linebacker SirVocea Dennis says getting up for the game shouldn’t be hard. Dennis said once he pulls on his Panther jersey, “whoever they say we don’t like, we don’t like.”

The pre-game starts at 5 PM and the game kicks-off at 7 PM on Beaver County Radio.