Pitt is currently ranked as the No. 66 team in the country according to the latest ESPN Football Power Index. Back on Sep. 18, the Panthers were ranked No. 71. The ESPN FPI currently predicts that Pitt will go finish this season at 4-8. The FPI analysis predicts the outcome of Pitt’s 2018 football season game-by-game.

What’s the FPI? The FPI is the Football Power Index. It is a measure of team strength that is meant to be the best predictor of a team’s performance going forward for the rest of the season. The ESPN FPI is an analytic that projects results based on 10,000 simulations.

Panther247 takes a look at how the current FPI sees Pitt’s 2018 schedule unraveling from a win-loss perspective. We’ll revisit this analytic every week for the remainder of the season. Pitt started the season ranked as the No. 55 team in the preseason edition of the latest ESPN Football Power Index.

We've included the games that they've already played and the games that they have yet to play in this update.