Over the past two years, the Big East has worked to prove the doubters wrong. When Miami, BC and Virginia Tech left, many across the nation were howling that the Big East didn't deserve to have their automatic BCS birth. However, West Virginia, South Florida, Rutgers and Louisville proved themselves on the field and all spent time near the top of the polls. WVU's crushing victory over Oklahoma this past January in a BCS game was seen as the destruction of any lingering questions about the Big East's place in the BCS. Now after all of that hard work, two short weekends have eroded all that confidence and the Big East is on the verge of being a joke again. There is just no way to label's WVU's 3-24 loss as the number 8 team in the country to East Carolina as anything but disastrous. After all, ECU was one of the teams that the Big East rejected when they added teams after the ACC raided them and their fans have a huge chip on their shoulder about it. Cincinnati had a chance today to make some positive news for the conference, but the possibility of even making the score respectable was lost when Dustin Grutza fractured his ankle. Plus, they were suppose to have one of the best defenses in the conference and Oklahoma completely shredded them today. All is not lost, but it sucks that the conference has put themselves in such a hole.
The ACC has done no better, and the B10 isn't that far behind. And Notre Dame still sucks. South Florida has established itself as the team to beat in this conference, IMO.
If UC had a QB, I'd still say they were the best team, but yes USF is the team left for the media to get behind.
And South Florida barely escapes with a win tonight. This is about as bad a start as the BE could have possibly had.
The UNC/Rutgers game could be the deciding factor in determining which conference is worse: the ACC or the Big East.
