Worst-case scenario at Pitt kicks off latest round of anti-Weis onslaught

Pittsburgh, 27, Notre Dame 22. Aside from a true disaster like his suffering another knee injury on the sideline, this efort couldn't have strayed much further from Charlie Weis' preferred script for ending Notre Dame's draught against ranked teams, and at least temporarily silencing the deafening chatter about his future at ND. The Irish's first seven drives resulted in five punts, one turnover, a field goal and a 17-point hole before the offense began to pick up the pace late in the third quarter. By that point, even Golden Tate's usual clutch heroics came too late to bring the Domers all the way back. Statistically, again, Notre Dame comes away looking like a powerhouse in the passing game -- Tate and the freakishly gifted Michael Floyd both went over 100 yards receiving for the second week in a row, and the pair of Irish touchdown drives in the third and fourth quarters came almost exclusively on Jimmy Clausen's arm. But that consistency was nowhere to be...