PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Pittsburgh couldn't have picked a better way to say goodbye to Pitt Stadium.

John Turman, benched more a month ago, threw two touchdown passes to Antonio Bryant and Kevan Barlow scored twice as Pitt upset heavily favored Notre Dame 37-27 Saturday in the final game in its 74-year-old stadium.

	Pitt's Antonio Bryant snags one of his two touchdown grabs in front of Notre Dame's Clifford Jefferson on Saturday in the final game at Pitt Stadium.

Hundreds of fans in the overcapacity crowd brought down the goal posts after Notre Dame's Jarious Jackson threw incomplete into the end zone on fourth down with nine seconds left, causing the officials to wave off the final seconds.

Some fans ripped up small sections of the artificial turf field, some of which already had been sold via an Internet auction, but security officers managed to keep the damage to a minimum.

Turman threw for 231 yards, almost exclusively to the always-open Latef Grim and Bryant, and the Panthers (5-5) positioned themselves for a possible bowl bid if they beat West Virginia on Nov. 27 -- and staged one of their biggest upsets in the 1990s.

Notre Dame (5-5) wasn't ranked, but had won eight in a row against Pittsburgh, the last six by a combined score of 280-77. The Irish, the most difficult team for Pitt to beat since the Panthers began playing in 1890, also led the all-time series 40-16-1.

But buoyed by a crowd of 60,190, the eighth largest in the hillside stadium's history, the Panthers never trailed and took the lead for good at 20-17 on Nick Lotz's 33-yard field goal late in the third quarter.

On the ensuing kickoff, Ramon Walker recovered Tony Fisher's fumble at the Irish 29. One play later, Turman found Bryant on a 28-yard scoring pass that made it 27-17 and caused one of the biggest roars in a stadium that only rarely has been filled since Pitt's run of nationally ranked teams ended in the mid 1980s.

Bryant, a freshman, had four catches for 95 yards and Grim had four for 120 yards as Turman made nearly every one of his 10 completions count.

Notre Dame, which hadn't lost to a Big East team since being upset by Boston College in 1994, came right back to score three players later on a 27-yard pass from Jackson to David Givens. Givens had earlier connected with Bobby Brown on a 21-yard scoring pass after taking a reverse from Jackson, who was 22-of-37 for 317 yards. Brown made 12 catches for 208 yards.

But Lotz blunted some of the Irish's momentum with a 44-yard field goal -- the longest of his career -- to put Pitt up 30-24 with 11:03 remaining. Then, with Notre Dame trying to drive for a go-ahead score, Walker put a big hit on Joey Getherall, causing the ball to fly 15 feet in the air to linebacker Scott McCurley for the interception.

Pitt then sealed its first victory over Notre Dame since 1987 as Barlow scored on a 2-yard run with 1:41 remaining.

Pitt, feeding off the momentum of one of its few home sellouts of the 1990s, scored on its first possession with Turman finding Bryant on a 9-yarder for the first of their two touchdown hookups. The week before, Turman couldn't lead a touchdown drive in three quarters after replacing the injured David Priestley in a 33-3 loss to No. 19 Miami.

Lotz later added a 24-yard field goal, but Notre Dame, 3-0 in Pitt Stadium since 1987, tied it at 10-all at halftime on Jackson's 5-yard scoring pass to Getherall and Jim Sanson's 36-yard field goal.

At halftime, former stars such Tony Dorsett and Marshall Goldberg were among the more than 300 ex-players saluted. At least one player from every decade since the 1920s attended.

Pitt will play next season in Three Rivers Stadium, then will shift to the new Steelers stadium in 2001. Pitt Stadium will be replaced by a new basketball arena and student housing.