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Pitt-Cincinnati Kickoff Time Announced

The Pitt Panthers get a late afternoon kickoff for the Cincinnati game.
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Pitt-Cincinnati Kickoff Time Announced
Pitt-Cincinnati Kickoff Time Announced

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PITTSBURGH -- The 2023 schedule is slowly coming together for the Pitt Panthers, who just learned of another one of their kickoff times for this fall. 

Pitt and Cincinnati will renew the River City Rivalry with Cincinnati in Week 2 at Acrisure Stadium and kickoff the 13th game of the series at 6:30 p.m., the program announced this week. TheCW, which purchased the rights to 50 ACC football and basketball games for each season through 2027, will carry the game as its first ACC sporting event in station history. 

This series between two dates back to 1921 but went through a few major breaks in the action. Pitt won the first seven games but the Bearcats have won four of the last five, including two in a row in Pittsburgh. 

The most famous game of the rivalry came in 2009, when Brian Kelly, Tony Pike, Marty Gilliard and the Bearcats stunned Pitt, 45-44 in front of a sold out Heinz Field to capture the Big East title and a BCS Bowl bid. 

The Panthers will try to snap a two game skid that dates back to 2011 when Cincinnati visits town this September. 

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STEPHEN THOMPSON

Stephen Thompson graduated with a bachelor's degree in communications and political science from Pitt in April 2022 after spending four years as a sports writer and editor at The Pitt News, the University of Pittsburgh's independent, student-run newspaper.  He primarily worked the Pitt men's basketball beat, and filled in on coverage of football, volleyball, softball, gymnastics and lacrosse, in addition to other sports as needed. His work at The Pitt News has won awards from the Pennsylvania News Media Association and Associated College Press.  During the spring and summer of 2021, Stephen interned for Pittsburgh Sports Now, covering baseball in western Pennsylvania. Hailing from Washington D.C., family ties have cultivated a love of Boston's professional teams and Pitt athletics, and a fascination with sports in general.  You can reach Stephen by email at stephenethompson00@gmail.com and follow him on Twitter. Read his latest work:

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