Just when you thought college football couldn’t get weirder, 5-4 Pitt leads a division

Just wanna preserve this for your records, because it will change somewhat over the course of Week 10’s Saturday:

Those are the ACC Coastal standings after Pitt beat No. 25 Virginia, 23-13, on a muddy night in Charlottesville.

It was weird enough that UVA was leading a Power 5 division halfway through the season. Because of that, all of us envisioned the whole P5 having weird conference title games, and we even came up with a way to sneak the Hoos into the Playoff.

But Pitt? 5-4 Pitt? Pitt, which lost to a terrible UNC, might win the division? This is too Pitt even for Pitt.

The ACC Coastal has long been legendary for its extreme parity, with college football fans nationwide hoping every year for the whole division to go 4-4. Pitt winning it all would be close enough to count.

And there’s more.

Over the last three decades are so, Panthers football is known for basically one thing: shocking title contenders despite being mediocre. You know the long list. Well, they got blown out by Penn State and narrowly beaten by Notre Dame this year, and I don’t think beating No. 25 Virginia counts as discharging the Pitt superweapon.

You know who they’d face in the ACC Championship, though?

Oh, just one of the two best teams in the country. When has Pitt ever beaten one of the two best teams in the country right before the postseason starts before, despite having no business doing so? Pretty much all the time, roughly.