Notre Dame and Pittsburgh squared off today at Heinz Field and I have to say it looked like neither team wanted to win this game.Notre Dame (2-2) quarterback Tommy Rees continued his turnover happy season by fumbling the ball deep in Pitt territory, and then later throwing an interception in the red zone. Notre Dame was penalized eight times for 85 yards, and most of those penalties came on huge plays by the Notre Dame offense.
One was a roughing the kicker penalty on 4th and 20 after the Fighting Irish had stopped Pitt deep in their zone. Pitt (2-2) would go on to score their lone touchdown of the game on that drive.
Pitt's offensive line was pretty offensive in this one, allowing five sacks against Tino Sunseri, but Lucas Nix was even more offensive, being called for FOUR false starts. You have to be more focused than that by the fourth game of the season.
Tino Sunseri as usual was not very successful throwing the ball downfield, but this time his two best deep throws of the game were both dropped by Mike Shanahan and Devin Street respectively. Street's drop would have given Pitt the ball with a 12-7 lead deep in Notre Dame territory.
Sunseri's biggest mistakes were not getting rid of the ball quickly and taking two sacks on the critical final drive of the game.
At least the secondary played a little bit better after being torched for over 300 yards in back to back games by Maine (yes Maine....) and Iowa. Again though, Pitt couldn't seal the deal in the fourth quarter with the game on the line and now they have to prepare for South Florida on a short week.
South Florida beat Notre Dame earlier in the year, so Pitt is going to have to figure out some magic if they hope to open Big East play with a win.
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