PITTSBURGH -- This scene? Not like all the others. This opponent? Not like all the others. This emotion? Not like all the others.
Nobody could ever remember students camping out at 6:45 a.m. the day before a Pitt game. Nobody could ever remember a line of students snaking around Heinz Field, hours before kickoff, waiting for the gates to open.
No Pitt football game ever had 69,000-plus come out to watch. No Pitt football game had the stands filled when the game ended, the team loudly and proudly singing the alma mater with a raucous student section.