List of Pittsburgh Panthers football seasons

This is a list of Pittsburgh Panthers football seasons, national championships and quarterbacks. The Pittsburgh Panthers football team is the American football team of the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh. The team competes in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. The Panthers have been members of the Atlantic Coast Conference since 2013. From 1991 to 2012 they were members of the Big East Conference. Before 1991 they competed as an independent.

The Panthers began play in 1890. In total, the University officially recognizes nine national championships. The university bases its claim for the five national championships from 1929 to 1937 on a 1967 article by Dan Jenkins of Sports Illustrated.[1][2] The NCAA's record book lists Pittsburgh as being selected for a national championship by "major selectors" in eleven different seasons.[3] Research by College Football Data Warehouse (CFBDW) has found that Pitt was selected as a national champion in 16 different seasons by at least one out of 80 selectors of titles.[4] Of these, CFBDW names six as national championship seasons for the University of Pittsburgh.[5]

  1. ^ Borghetti, E.J.; Nestor, Mendy; Welsh, Celeste, eds. (2008). 2008 Pitt Football Media Guide (PDF). University of Pittsburgh. p. 156. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 23, 2011. Retrieved July 7, 2010. To settle countless arguments, Sports Illustrated in 1970 [sic] researched the first and only complete and wholly accurate list ever compiled of college football's mythical national champions [sic]. Every recognized authority that ever presumed to name a No. 1 was included [sic].
  2. ^ Jenkins, Dan (September 11, 1967). "This Year The Fight Will Be In The Open". Sports Illustrated. 27 (11). Chicago: Time Inc.: 30–33. Retrieved February 8, 2016.
  3. ^ "2001 NCAA Division I Football Records Book" (PDF). p. 78. Retrieved January 29, 2009. [dead link]
  4. ^ "Pittsburgh All National Championships". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on July 4, 2008. Retrieved January 29, 2009.
  5. ^ "College Football Data Warehouse: Recognized National Championships by Team: Pittsburgh". Archived from the original on November 14, 2012. Retrieved January 29, 2009.