On this page we break down Football at University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus, a fall sport — team by team, topic by topic, with gender and cross-sport comparisons throughout. Pitt plays at the level of NCAA Division I-FBS as a member of Atlantic Coast Conference.
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The Pitt men’s football team fields 118 players, with an NCAA multi-year squad size of 359. The NCAA tracked 402 athletes in this program for its academic reporting.
Of the 13 varsity sports Pitt reports, football ranks #2 by total roster size.
The men’s football program is staffed by 15 coaches — 1 head coach and 14 assistants. Of those, 15 work full-time and 0 part-time. The head coach is Pat Narduzzi.
Among the school’s 13 sports, football ranks #2 by total coaching staff.
Financial data is drawn from the U.S. Department of Education’s Equity in Athletics survey.
The Pitt men’s football program generated $57,222,645 in revenue against $47,141,722 in expenses, a net profit of $10,080,923. That works out to about $80,434 in operating expense per athlete, or $9,491,212 per team.
Among the school’s 13 sports, football sits #1 by revenue, or about 38% of the school’s total athletics revenue.
The men’s football team earned an Academic Progress Rate (APR) of 975 (988 on a multi-year basis) and a Graduation Success Rate of 90%. The program kept 98% of its athletes, with 99% remaining academically eligible.
Against the school’s average team APR of 987, football lands below the pack at 975.
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Blank metrics mean the data was not reported for this team.