In the past decade, plenty of college rivalries have gone by the wayside as a result of conference realignment: Texas–Texas A&M, Missouri-Kansas, Pitt–West Virginia, to name a few. Others have been interrupted, with talks akin to peace deals needed to negotiate even temporary resumption.
Penn State–Pitt, which will kick off Saturday at 12:00 ET, falls in the latter category for now—but it was also a victim of conference machinations long before realignment kicked off in earnest in 2010. You see, until the 1990s, both schools played as independents; Pitt joined the Big East in 1991, Penn State the Big Ten in ’93.