Pitt holds its own around Pittsburgh.
If you look at the NY Times college football fan heat map that I linked below, Pitt has about 35-40% of the college football fans around Pittsburgh followed by Penn State at 25% and Ohio State below that. WVU has following in the counties close to the West Virginia border.
Adding WVU to the ACC with Pitt might get that support in the area up to half or so. The ACC would not need WVU for Pennsylvania. The ACC would need Penn State to capture the rest of Pennsylvania. But you can see that WVU brings all of West Virginia and much of Western Maryland. And in West Virginia 75% of the fans are WVU in much of it. That would add value to the ACC IMO.
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Posted: 08/15/2016 at 1:30PM