The 2017 season's largest margin: Pittsburgh 42, Rice 10. A 32-point win — the year's high-water mark.
2017 — The Correction
2017 is a losing-side chapter for Pittsburgh. The program metabolises it; the voice does not apologize.
The Shape — week-by-week · cumulative W–L below
Who carried it
- Ben DinucciQB1,091 passing yards
- Max BrowneQB997 passing yards
- Darrin HallRB628 rushing yards
- Qadree OllisonRB398 rushing yards
- Quadree HendersonWR249 rushing yards
- Jester WeahWR698 receiving yards
- Rafael Araujo-LopesWR531 receiving yards
- Maurice FfrenchWR272 receiving yards
- Oluwaseun IdowuLB93 tackles
- Saleem BrightwellLB73 tackles
- Jordan WhiteheadDB60 tackles
- Avonte MaddoxDB4 sacks
- Rashad WeaverDL3 sacks
- Dewayne HendrixDL3 sacks
Season leaders, 2017.
The season's deepest loss: Pittsburgh 21, Oklahoma State 59. A 38-point margin the season is remembered by.
"Hail to Pitt"
2017 sits in Pittsburgh's crisis ledger. The program does not moralise it. The next season begins the day this one ended and the crisis chapter closes when the ledger does.