There isn’t a ton of history between Pitt and Tech. We never faced each other before the Big East. After we left the BE, we didn’t pick up the encounters until after the Pittsburgh was invited to join the Coastal Division of the ACC in 2012.
The odd thing is that Pitt is not a “rival” in the classic sense. We only have 16 games on the boards, and the split is 9 and 7 in favor (some favor) of the Hokies. The issue is the slugging grudge match that these games have become. It doesn’t help matters that just before we left the Big East; we lost the last three games in that conference, one of which was a critical 5th ranking.