- Pennsylvania Classic
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- style="text-align:center;" ! colspan="2" style="text-align: center; background-color: {Color|LightSteelBlue};" | Pitt Panthers-Penn State Nittany Lions
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-! style="background: #E0E7EF;" colspan="2" | History
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1st Meeting ||November 6 ,1893
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style="vertical-align: top;" | Last Meeting ||September 16 ,2000
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style="vertical-align: top;" | Next Meeting || TBA
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style="vertical-align: top;" | Number of Meetings || 96
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style="vertical-align: top;" | All-Time Series || PSU: 50-42-4
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style="vertical-align: top;" | Largest victory || PSU: 59-0
(10-24-1903)
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style="vertical-align: top;" | Current Streak || PITT: Won 1
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style="vertical-align: top;" | Longest PITT Win Streak || 14 (1922-1938)
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style="vertical-align: top;" | Longest PSU Win Streak || 10 (1966-1975)The Pennsylvania Classic is a currently-dormant football rivalry between two of the most storiedcollege football programs in theEastern United States : the Penn State Nittany Lions and Pitt Panthers.History
Once considered the fiercest and most important college football rivalry north of the
Mason-Dixon line , this intrastate rivalry began a slow death in the 1990's when Pitt's football team joined the new football division of the Big East in 1991 alongside the rest of the school's athletic programs already established in the conference. Two years later, Penn State joined the Big Ten. The then newly-acquired conference affiliations of the two previously independent football program powers resulted in fewer scheduling opportunities.The rivalry ended in 2000 when the two school's most recent contract ended, with Pitt winning over Penn State at
Three Rivers Stadium 12-0. The two schools haven't met since due to conflicts in scheduling. Longtime Penn State coachJoe Paterno wanted the two schools to play every two games atBeaver Stadium for every game played in Pittsburgh. Pitt found these terms unacceptable, and the two haven't met since.There have been on-again, off-again talks of restarting the rivalry, but nothing has surfaced
as of 2007 . The 2010 college football season is currently the earliest the two schools could meet again, as Penn State already has the 2008 and 2009 schedules booked.While Penn State has since established rivalries with other Big Ten schools (particularly Ohio State) and Pitt still has the
Backyard Brawl with West Virginia and the more recentRiver City rivalry with Cincinnati, many fans would enjoy the resumption of the rivalry.Game Results
2000 - Pitt 12 Penn State 0
External links
* [http://www.gopsusports.com Penn State University Athletics Site]
* [http://pittsburghpanthers.cstv.com/ University of Pittsburgh Official Athletics Site]
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