PITT 14TH, PENN STATE 11TH IN AP

Despite a week off, the Pitt Panthers moved up to 14th in this week's AP poll, up two spots from a week ago. In fact, they're just two spots below the USC Trojans. That's a sentence I never thought I'd be writing in 2009.So how does a team move up when they're watching at home? You can send your thank-you notes to Oklahoma State and Virginia Tech, two teams which were ranked above Pitt but lost this weekend. If there's ever one thing you can count on in the college football season, it's Virginia Tech eventually dropping in the polls. That, and blocking some punts, which will be immediately be followed by the announcers gushing about "Beamer Ball". But I digress.Next week, the 7-1 Panthers host Greg Paulus and 3-5 Syracuse, which lost 28-7 to Cincinnati yesterday. It's a noon kickoff at the Big Ketchup Bottle.As for the other team that gets a lot of love from the MH readers, the Penn State Nittany Lions rallied from a 13-10 halftime deficit t...