The supposed also-ran of the 6 BCS conferences, the Big East is the only league that can claim 3 straight BCS bowl game victories. So why do I have them pegged 5th in my standings of BCS conferences? I guess I'm a glutton for punishment. When Virginia Tech, Miami , and Boston College left the Big East nearly everyone outside of the Big East fans expected this conference to fold up into itself. That was before West Virginia, Louisville, South Florida, Cincinnati , and Connecticut decided that they would become better than anyone ever expected. In the past three years there aren't many teams that can claim that they were better than West Virginia . In fact you could have made a strong case for the 'Neers that they were good enough to have played in the National Championship game last year, and even the year before. Their dismantling of a pretty damn good Oklahoma team in the Fiesta Bowl last year proved their belonging. (Although many pundits would argue that Oklahoma was a likely pretender, especially after losing to Boise State last year.) So what does the Big East have in store for us this year? Some quality signal-callers are gone, but the top end, including West Virginia and South Florida should get strong recognition as National Title Contenders, if not at the least being 'sleepers'. My conference prediction: West Virginia South Florida Pittsburgh Louisville Connecticut Rutgers Syracuse Cincinnati And here are my reas ...
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The supposed also-ran of the 6 BCS conferences, the Big East is the only league that can claim 3 straight BCS bowl game victories. So why do I have them pegged 5th in my standings of BCS conferences? I guess I'm a glutton for punishment. When Virginia Tech, Miami , and Boston College left the Big East nearly everyone outside of the Big East fans expected this conference to fold up into itself. That was before West Virginia, Louisville, South Florida, Cincinnati , and Connecticut decided that they would become better than anyone ever expected. In the past three years there aren't many teams that can claim that they were better than West Virginia . In fact you could have made a strong case for the 'Neers that they were good enough to have played in the National Championship game last year, and even the year before. Their dismantling of a pretty damn good Oklahoma team in the Fiesta Bowl last year proved their belonging. (Although many pundits would argue that Oklahoma was a likely pretender, especially after losing to Boise State last year.) So what does the Big East have in store for us this year? Some quality signal-callers are gone, but the top end, including West Virginia and South Florida should get strong recognition as National Title Contenders, if not at the least being 'sleepers'. My conference prediction: West Virginia South Florida Pittsburgh Louisville Connecticut Rutgers Syracuse Cincinnati And here are my reas ...