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Pitt kicker Conor Lee was named Big East special teams player of the week for his performance in the Panthers’ 36-33 quadruple-overtime victory at Notre Dame this past Saturday. Lee converted a school-record five field goals, including a 22-yarder for his first career game winner. He also made kicks from 35, 22, 32 and 26 [...]

:SOUTH BEND, Ind. – Conor Lee kicked a 22-yard field goal, the first game-winner of his career, to lead Pitt to a 36-33 quadruple-overtime victory before a sellout crowd of 80,795 at Notre Dame Stadium. It marked the longest game in the history of both schools. Pitt’s previous long was its 41-38 triple-overtime victory at [...]

SOUTH BEND, Ind. – The Pitt-Notre Dame game, tied at 24-24 at the end of regulation, is headed into overtime. Notre Dame took a 24-17 lead with 5:38 remaining on a 6-yard pass from Jimmy Clausen to Golden Tate, but the visiting Panthers answered with a 10-yard touchdown pass from Pat Bostick to Jonathan Baldwin [...]

SOUTH BEND, Ind. – Pitt opened the second half with a scoring drive capped by LaRod Stephens-Howling’s 4-yard run, then relied on a stout defense to cut Notre Dame’s lead to 17-10 after three quarters. Pitt opened the second half with an eight-play, 71-yard scoring drive kept alive by a Notre Dame personal-foul penalty on [...]

SOUTH BEND, Ind. – Jimmy Clausen threw a pair of second-quarter touchdown passes to freshman Michael Floyd to give Notre Dame a 17-3 halftime lead over visiting Pitt this afternoon. Floyd followed a spectacular catch by Golden Tate with a leaping grab in the back of the end zone for an 18-yard scoring play with [...]

SOUTH BEND, Ind. – Pitt has played two quarterbacks, and neither has been effective, but the Panthers used another blocked kick to force a 3-3 tie after the first quarter this afternoon at Notre Dame. Notre Dame opened with a 10-play, 62-yard drive that saw the Fighting Irish stall at the Pitt 21 and settle [...]

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Sophomore Pat Bostick will start at quarterback for Pitt against Notre Dame today, replacing the injured Bill Stull. Stull left the Rutgers game last Saturday on a stretcher, after suffering a concussion and stinger in the third quarter. It marks Bostick’s first start of the season, the ninth of his career [...]

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — For some of us, this wasn’t so much a road trip as it was a pilgrimage to the mecca of the college football world. For the Pitt Panthers, there has been a constant reminder that they aren’t just playing against Notre Dame but its grand tradition. The Panthers did their best [...]