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The Big East's 2011 Top 10 Games to Watch
Big East The start of the 2011 college football season is less than 20 days away. With kickoff right around the corner, Athlon takes a look at the top 10 must-see games in the Big East for 2011. 1. Pitt...
1 year ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, Big East, Cincinnati, Connecticut, Louisville, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, South Florida, Syracuse, West Virginia

Athlon Awards: Ranking the Big East's Best Units
Big East Kickoff for the 2011 season is just a few weeks away. To help pass the time before the opening weekend, Athlon will be taking a look at the best units by conference.  A "1" signifies the b...
1 year ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, Big East, Cincinnati, Connecticut, Louisville, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, South Florida, Syracuse, West Virginia

Top 25 Players of the BCS Era
Big East Athlon's editors have voted on the top 25 players of the BCS era. ...
1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: College Football, ACC, Big East, Big Ten, big-12, Mountain West, Pac-12, SEC, Adrian Peterson, Cam Newton, LaDainian Tomlinson, Michael Vick, Sam Bradford, Tim Tebow, Vince Young, Arizona State, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Miami, Michigan, Nebraska, North Carolina, oklahoma, Ole Miss, Pitt, TCU, Tennessee, Texas, Texas Tech, USC, Virginia Tech, West Virginia, Wisconsin

Predicting College Football's Breakout Players: Big East
Big East by Steven Lassan (@AthlonSteven on Twitter) What is a breakout player? Defining that term isn’t exactly easy. Although Big East fans are likely already familiar with the names on this li...
1 year ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, Big East, Cincinnati, Connecticut, Louisville, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, South Florida, Syracuse, West Virginia

Athlon Awards: Quarterback Units
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 off tim...
1 year ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Conference USA, MAC, Mountain West, Pac-12, SEC, Sun Belt, WAC, Arizona, baylor, Boise State, Cincinnati, Georgia, Hawaii, Houston, Michigan, Michigan State, Nebraska, Northwestern, Notre Dame, oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Oregon, Stanford, Tulsa, USC, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Athlon Awards

Is Louisville the Big East's Surprise Team for 2011?
Big East By Steven Lassan (@AthlonSteven on Twitter) Defining what is a surprise team is no easy task. Over the next couple of weeks, Athlon will take a look at a team from each of the ...
1 year ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, Big East, Louisville

Looking Back at the Top Recruits of 2006: 30-21
Big East by Braden Gall (@AthlonBraden on Twitter) Every year, millions of dollars and man hours are spent trying to acquire talent by college football programs across this great country. Attempt...
1 year ago by Braden Gall Tags: College Football, ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Pac-12, SEC

College Football's Coaches on the Hot Seat
Big East The coaching carousel is usually one of the most intriguing elements of college football's regular season and has been in full effect since May with the departure of Jim Tressel at Ohio State and B...
1 year ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Conference USA, MAC, Mountain West, Pac-12, SEC, Sun Belt, WAC, Coaches on the hot seat, Mark Richt

College Football: Projecting the 2011 Win Totals
Big East by Steven Lassan (@AthlonSteven on Twitter) The countdown to kickoff for the 2011 college football season is less than 40 days away. With fall camps opening up in a matter of days, now is anoth...
1 year ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Conference USA, MAC, Mountain West, Pac-12, SEC, Sun Belt, WAC

Ranking the Big East's Top 25 Players for 2011
Big East By Braden Gall (@AthlonBraden) and Steven Lassan (@AthlonSteven) Athlon Sports continues its countdown to the upcoming college football season with a look at the top 25 players for 2011 in the ...
1 year ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, Big East, Cincinnati, Connecticut, Louisville, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, South Florida, Syracuse, West Virginia

Ranking the College Football Conferences
Big East With the start of the 2011 just around the corner, it's time to revisit the conference power rankings. The SEC claims the last five national titles and should reign surpreme once again this year. H...
1 year ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Conference USA, MAC, Mountain West, Pac-12, SEC, Sun Belt, WAC

Ranking the College Football Coaching Jobs: 120-51
Big East 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...
1 year ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Conference USA, MAC, Mountain West, Pac-12, SEC, Sun Belt, WAC, Coaching jobs

Ranking the College Football Coaching Jobs: Big East
Big East 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...
1 year ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, Big East, Louisville, Pitt Panthers, Rutgers, South Florida Bulls, Syracuse, West Virginia Mountaineers, Coaching jobs

A Strong Start at Louisville
Big East By Rick Bozich It was the biggest coaching decision of Charlie Strong’s career as a head coach, and it only took seconds for it to smell like he had made the wrong call. It was the 10th g...
1 year ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, Big East, Louisville, College Football News

Athlon's 2011 All-Big East Team
Big East Athlon continues our countdown to the upcoming season with our first and second All-Big East teams for the 2011 season. Click here for all our college football team previews, rankings and predictio...
1 year ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, Big East

Athlon's 2011 Big East Predictions
Big East Get ready for another unpredictable year in the Big East. West Virginia is the favorite, despite changing head coaches in early June. Bill Stewart resigned, elevating offensive coordinator Dana Hol...
1 year ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, Big East, Cincinnati Bearcats, Connecticut Huskies, Louisville Cardinals, Pittsburgh Panthers, Rutgers Scarlet Knights, South Florida Bulls, Syracuse Orange, West Virginia Mountaineers

Watch out for Cal, Miami and Cincinnati in '11-12
Big East Name a team from a Big Six power conference that you believe could surprise in 2011-12. Mitch Light: I believe California will emerge as the biggest threat to Arizona in the new-look Pac-12. Mi...
1 year ago by Mitch Light Tags: College Basketball, ACC, Big East, Pac-12, Allen Crabbe, Cashmere Wright, DeQuan Jones, Dion Dixon, Jim Larranaga, Jorege Gutierrez, Malcolm Grant, Mick Cronin, Mike Montgomery, Reggie Johnson, Sean Kilpatrick, Shaquille Thomas, Yancy Gates, Cal, Cincinnati, Miami

Athlon's 2011 Big East Covers
Big East Get yours today! ...
2 years ago by Athlon Sports Tags: College Football, Big East

2011 Football Predictions: Big East
Big East For the 45th year in a row, Athlon Sports will release its in-depth preseason preview annual complete with coaching changes, behind the scenes features, scouting reports from within the locker roo...
2 years ago by Braden Gall Tags: College Football, Big East

No Experience Necessary
Big East -by Steven Lassan (@AthlonSteven) When choosing a preseason favorite at No. 1, experience at quarterback is usually one of the most important factors to consider. However, is it time to reconsi...
2 years ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Pac-12, SEC, Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida State, Virginia Tech, Wisconsin

Spring Primer: Big East, Pt 2
Big East -by Braden Gall (@AthlonBraden) Spring Primers: ACC Coastal | ACC Atlantic | Big 12, Part 1 | Big 12, Pt 2 | Notre Dame | Big East, Part 1 | Big East, Pt 2 | SEC West | SEC East | Big Ten Lead...
2 years ago by Braden Gall Tags: College Football, Big East

Spring Primer: Big East Pt. 1
Big East -by Steven Lassan (@AthlonSteven) Connecticut 2010 Record: 8-5, 5-2 Big East Spring practice: March 15-April 30   Returning Starters: Offense – 6, Defense – 10   S...
2 years ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, Big East

'11 Team Rankings: Big East
Big East Since conference realignment took place back in 2004, either Pitt or West Virginia has won every Big East recruiting crown. In fact, in four of those six years since, the Panthers and Mountaineers ...
2 years ago by Braden Gall Tags: College Football, Big East

'11 Predictions: Big East
Big East Athlon Sports is in the predictions business. We are currently America’s oldest preseason College Football publication (1967) and have been the most accurate NCAA football predictor over the las...
2 years ago by Braden Gall Tags: College Football, Big East

The Big East's Best
Big East Athlon will be awarding postseason honors to each BCS conference in the country. Today we look at the Big East’s best for 2010.For the sake of this exercise, the Heisman and Bednarik will functi...
2 years ago by Braden Gall Tags: College Football, Big East

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