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College Football's Top 10 Players Returning From Injury

Big East Injuries are a big part of any college football season. 2011 was no different, as losing Knile Davis was a key setback to Arkansas' hopes of winning the SEC West last year, while Missouri's offensi...

College Football: Big East Must-See Games of 2012

Big East As the college football season draws near, Athlon Sports is making sure fans know exactly when and where to tune in this fall. Here are the Big East's Top 20 must-see football games for the 2012 se...

44 weeks ago by Braden Gall Tags: College Football, Big East, Cincinnati Bearcats, Connecticut Huskies, Louisville Cardinals, Pitt Panthers, Rutgers Scarlet Knights, South Florida Bulls, Syracuse Orange, Temple Owls

College Football's Top 20 Linebacker Units for 2012

Big East They’re the teams within the team — those cohesive little units bound together by their shared responsibilities within the larger team context. Whether it’s the offensive linemen firing o...

College Football's Top 20 Defensive Back Units for 2012

44 weeks ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, News, ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Independents, Pac 12, SEC

College Football's Top 20 Defensive Lines for 2012

College Football's Top 20 Offensive Lines for 2012

44 weeks ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, News, ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Independents, Pac 12, SEC, WAC

College Football's Top 20 Wide Receiving Corps for 2012

College Football's Top 25 Running Back Units for 2012

Big East They’re the teams within the team — those cohesive little units bound together by their shared responsibilities within the larger team context. Whether it’s the offensive linemen fi...

College Football's Top 20 Storylines to Watch in Fall Practice

Big East The start of the 2012 college football season is just a few weeks away. However, as fall practice kicks off around the nation, plenty of unanswered questions remain, including some that will have a...

Big East Football's Breakout Players for 2012

Big East Every year, college football fans are introduced to a handful of players that become household names by the end of the season. Predicting which players will breakout any year is never an ...

45 weeks ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, News, Big East, Cincinnati Bearcats, Connecticut Huskies, Louisville Cardinals, Pittsburgh Panthers, Rutgers Scarlet Knights, South Florida Bulls, Syracuse Orange, Temple Owls

College Football's Overrated Trends and Overlooked Numbers

Big East With college football season less than a month away, some (but hopefully not all) preseason predictions and projections will be moot. Trust us, we’ve been digesting our thoughts on the upcoming s...

College Football's 2012 All-Name Team

Big East With 124 teams in the FBS and around 100 players on a roster, there are certainly some interesting names that pop-up throughout the course of production for Athlon's 2012 college football magazine ...

46 weeks ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, News, ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Conference USA, Independents, MAC, Mountain West, Pac 12, SEC, Sun Belt, WAC

2012 College Football Awards: Sack Masters

Big East History, and most every rational brain in sports, indicates that the quarterback position is easily the most important and valuable on any football roster. In order to protect the most valued membe...

46 weeks ago by Braden Gall Tags: College Football, News, ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Pac 12, SEC

Big East's Top 10 Storylines to Watch in Fall Practice

Big East Kickoff for the 2012 college football season is just around the corner. However, plenty of unanswered questions remain around the nation for every team. Injuries, quarterback battles and players th...

46 weeks ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, News, Big East, Cincinnati Bearcats, Connecticut Huskies, Louisville Cardinals, Pittsburgh Panthers, Rutgers Scarlet Knights, South Florida Bulls, Syracuse Orange, Temple Owls

Ranking the nation's top college basketball coaches

Big East Through the last two weeks, Athlon Sports ranked each coach in the ACC, Atlantic 10, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Pac-12 and SEC along with the top 20 coaches from outside those seven conferences...

46 weeks ago by David Fox Tags: College Basketball, ACC, Atlantic 10, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Pac-12, SEC, West Coast, Arizona Wildcats, Butler Bulldogs, California Golden Bears, Connecticut Huskies, Duke Blue Devils, Florida Gators, Florida State Seminoles, Gonzaga Bulldogs, Indiana Hoosiers, Kansas Jayhawks, Kentucky Wildcats, Louisville Cardinals, Marquette Golden Eagles, Michigan State Spartans, Michigan Wolverines, North Carolina Tar Heels, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Ohio State Buckeyes, Pittsburgh Panthers, Purdue Boilermakers, Saint Louis Billikens, Saint Mary's Gaels, South Carolina Gamecocks, Syracuse Orange, UCLA Bruins, Vanderbilt Commodores, VCU Rams, West Virginia Mountaineers, Wisconsin Badgers

College Football's Darkhorse National Title Contenders for 2012

Big East Predicting college football's national champion is never an easy task. In addition to combing through schedules, returning starters, players lost and statistics, there are several factors impossibl...

46 weeks ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, News, ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Mountain West, Boise State Broncos, Louisville Cardinals, Michigan State Spartans, Texas Longhorns, Virginia Tech Hokies, Wisconsin Badgers

Big East Player Rankings: The Top 50 Players for 2012

Big East Ranking the best of the best in any conference is never an easy task. However, the Big East was perhaps the most difficult BCS league to rank. Rutgers' Khaseem Greene is an Athlon Sports' second-te...

47 weeks ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, News, Big East, Cincinnati Bearcats, Connecticut Huskies, Louisville Cardinals, Pittsburgh Panthers, Rutgers Scarlet Knights, South Florida Bulls, Syracuse Orange, Temple Owls

College Football's 10 Biggest Changes For the 2012 Season

Big East Simply put, college football fans may never again witness the pure volume and amplitude of changes which will take place as the 2012 season unravels itself. Below is a list of the top-ten changes, ...

47 weeks ago by Athlon Sports Tags: College Football, News, ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Te, Conference USA, Mountain West, Pac 12, SEC

Unit Rankings: 2012 Big East Linebackers

Big East Kickoff for the 2012 college football season is still two months away, but it's never too early to project how the year might play out. Athlon will be taking a look at how each position s...

20 Worst College Football Tenures of the Last 50 Years

Big East Sometimes a coach inherits a bad team. In some cases, through recruiting, game plan and inspiration, that coach can turn a bad team into a good or even great team. The guys on this list are not tho...

47 weeks ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, News, ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Conference USA, Independents, MAC, Mountain West, Pac 12, SEC, Sun Belt, WAC

Ranking the Big East's Basketball Coaches

Big East Even for a league with campus institutions like Jim Boeheim at Syracuse and Jim Calhoun at Connecticut, this offseason was relatively quiet for the Big East coaching ranks. For only the ...

48 weeks ago by David Fox Tags: College Basketball, Big East, Cincinnati Bearcats, Connecticut Huskies, DePaul Blue Demons, Georgetown Hoyas, Louisville Cardinals, Marquette Golden Eagles, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Pittsburgh Panthers, Providence Friars, Rutgers Scarlet Knights, Seton Hall Pirates, St. John's Red Storm, Syracuse Orange, USF Bulls, Villanova Wildcats

Who Will Be The First College Football Coach Fired in 2012?

Big East Coaching in the college football ranks is no easy task. 28 programs changed head coaches at the end of 2011 and there will be no shortage of openings following the 2012 season. Who Will B...

48 weeks ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, News, ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Conference USA, Independents, MAC, Mountain West, Pac 12, SEC, Sun Belt, WAC

Unit Rankings: 2012 Big East Defensive Lines

Big East Kickoff for the 2012 college football season is still two months away, but it's never too early to project how the year might play out. Athlon will be taking a look at how each position s...

48 weeks ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, News, Big East, Cincinnati Bearcats, Connecticut Huskies, Louisville Cardinals, Pittsburgh Panthers, Rutgers Scarlet Knights, South Florida Bulls, Syracuse Orange, Temple Owls

College Football Bowl Projections for 2012

Big East Whether you hate or love the BCS, the bowl season is exciting time for college football fans. Although there are too many bowl games, it's one last chance to see teams before the long offseason set...

48 weeks ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, News, ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Conference USA, Independents, MAC, Mountain West, Pac 12, SEC, Sun Belt, WAC

Top 10 College Coaches Under 40

Big East What would recent Final Fours be without Butler and VCU? And how boring would college football be without coaches like Lane Kiffin and Pat Fitzgerald. There’s an intriguing youth movement af...

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