Pitt football’s unremarkable, 38-7 loss in the regular season finale to Miami forced the College Football Playoff Committee to drop them from the penultimate top 25 rankings ahead of conference championship weekend. The Panthers, who debuted in the CFP rankings at No. 24 on Nov. 4 while riding a five-game winning streak, entered that game against the then-No. 12 Hurricanes ranked No. 22 but will now play their coming bowl game unranked.

The Panthers spent three weeks ranked by the CFP committee and two by the Associated Press poll during the regular season. But blowout losses to Notre Dame and Miami left them on the outside looking in of both major top 25 polls.

During Pat Narduzzi’s 11-season tenure as head coach, the Panthers have spent at least one week ranked by CFP committee in fi

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