Ranking the Big East's College Football Coaching Jobs for 2013

Louisville ranks as the Big East's No. 1 program.

We have ranked every college football program in the country, based on the attractiveness of the position from a coaching perspective. We considered many factors — tradition, facilities, location, money — but in the end, we simply asked ourselves the following question: Where would we want to coach? Today we focus on the Big East.

(Note: Current or impending NCAA sanctions were not a factor in these rankings.)

Ranking the Coaching Jobs in the Big East for 2013

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College Football Recruiting: Big East Team Consensus Rankings for 2013

How did recruiting shake out for the Big East in 2013.

Recruiting in college football is downright nasty. It is a cutthroat, cannibalistic big business that is microscopically analyzed by fans, administrators and media members alike. There is very little to get excited about when it comes to Big East football and the recruiting trail is no different. But the 2013 class could be historically bad for a league that is accustomed to being ranked at the bottom of the power conferences.

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Ranking the Best College Football-Basketball Coach Tandems in the Big East

Charlie Strong, Rick Pitino easy choice for top duo

With college football’s spring practice and basketball’s postseason around the corner, Athlon Sports decided this would be a good time to evaluate each school’s coaching tandem.

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National Signing Day's Most Bizarre Stories

National Signing Day has always provided plenty of bizarre, hilarious and eye-opening stories.

Teenagers are complicated, fickle, naive creatures who seldom have any perspective on the trappings of adult life.

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Recruiting: Ranking the Big East's Best Football Rosters

Athlon Sports analyzes how the rosters in the Big East stack up nationally.

Preseason prognosticators like Athlon Sports — the most accurate college football preview magazine on newsstands — use many things to attempt to predict what the coming football season will look like.

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The Greatest 12 Non-BCS Offenses Since 1998

What are the nation's greatest non-BCS offenses of the modern era?

The BCS recently wrapped up its 15th season of action and Athlon Sports is continuing its series of BCS rankings. We ranked the best performances of each BCS bowl game and we ranked the best teams of each BCS conference. Now, we break down the top offensive units of the BCS era (1998-present).

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College Football's Top 15 Two-Star Recruits Since 2003

Who are the best two-star recruits in the modern recruiting era?

Recruiting rankings are an inexact science, and even the experts will admit that. It is virtually impossible to measure heart, work ethic, mental focus and self-awareness in 17- and 18-year-old kids. Especially, in the face of the most important decision they will ever make.

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Early Big East Football Predictions for 2013

Louisville is the Big East's clear favorite for 2013.

With college football’s 2012 season in the books, it’s never too early to start thinking about 2013.

The Big East has gone through a lot of changes since 2011 and more shuffling is expected in the next year.

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College Football: BCS Crasher Stock Report Post-Week 3

ULM's Kolton Browning is a player to watch once again

Fans who squirm at the long wait from Saturday college football to the Thursday night game will get a brief reprieve.

The traditional midweek MAC game will make its first appearance of the season with Kent State at Buffalo on Wednesday night. Midweek football will be short-lived, though. The next Tuesday/Wednesday game isn’t until Oct. 16.

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College Football's Top 20 Coaches on the Hot Seat: Post-Week 3 Rankings

Colorado's Jon Embree is off to an awful start this season.

Week 3 of the 2012 college football season is in the books and plenty of coaches saw the temperature on their seat increase by a few degrees. Kentucky's Joker Phillips easily ranks as the No. 1 coach on the hot seat after a disappointing loss to Western Kentucky. SEC foe Tennessee lost to Florida on Saturday, which only adds to the pressure under coach Derek Dooley.