West Virginia Might Look to Axe Alabama Collection to Lengthen Yard Brawl

This Saturday, West Virginia will make the quick journey as much as Acrisure Stadium to face the Pitt Panthers within the Yard Brawl. Following subsequent 12 months’s Brawl in Morgantown, the rivalry can be interrupted for 3 years earlier than returning to Pittsburgh in 2029.

Right now, WVU head coach Neal Brown was requested concerning the upcoming interruption and hinted at that probably altering within the close to future.

“We have to get our schedule fastened and we’re within the strategy of doing that. However yeah, I believe it is a sequence that must be performed. It is necessary. I believe Pitt desires to play it. We need to play it. School soccer is so up within the air no one actually is aware of what the longer term seems to be like, but when we keep on this we will play 9 convention video games and also you play one other Energy 4, I believe it is smart for us to play the sport. Shut proximity, it is an amazing TV viewers, the followers on either side are enthusiastic about it. Should you have a look at us shifting ahead, as quickly as we get via this little run right here – to me it is 9 convention video games, it is Pitt, it is an FCS, and it is a group of 5 and ideally the FCS and the group of 5 have to be at residence. That offers us a possibility to provide us seven residence video games yearly which is what we have to do.”

“We’re within the course of,” he added when requested additional about it. “Hell, we obtained Alabama…that ain’t fastened.”

Pitt has one open slot for a non-conference recreation in 2026, and two in 2027 and 2028. West Virginia’s non-conference is full in 2026 and 2027 however has two open slots in 2028.