USF Bulls 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. In this ...
USF Bulls The opening of three key SEC jobs this season -- Arkansas, Auburn and Tennessee -- sparked debate within the Athlon office, and, it seems, through rabid SEC fans. Which job is the most desirab...
USF Bulls Aside from the turmoil caused by conference realignment, the Big East has continued some familiar trends: Syracuse continues to be among the national elite with a bench player taking his turn in th...
USF Bulls For another year, the Big East football season almost seemed to be a sidenote. In 2011, charter football members Pittsburgh, Syracuse and West Virginia announced their departures as did never-w...
USF Bulls Stumbling and limping isn’t the best way to enter a season-defining game. At least for Louisville and Rutgers, though, both teams will look across the sideline at a team in a similar spot. ...
USF Bulls Say this for the Big East: The title chase won’t be without intrigue. Losses by Louisville and Rutgers last week gave Syracuse and Cincinnati a chance to claim shares of the Big East title. ...
USF Bulls Rutgers and Pittsburgh will play this week in what’s an important Big East game ... for now. The Scarlet Knights are seeking their first Big East title, and Pittsburgh is looking for a bowl game....
USF Bulls The de facto Big East championship game between Louisville and Rutgers has been established with the Scarlet Knights’ 10-3 win over Cincinnati on Saturday. But that’s not going to be the b...
USF Bulls Louisville’s not playing this weekend, but the developments from last week loom over the Big East. The fall of the league’s last remaining undefeated team opened other teams to grab some notori...
USF Bulls As recently as Oct. 20, the Big East had three undefeated teams. Four Saturdays later, all three are sitting with at least one loss. Despite Louisville’s loss to Syracuse in the Carrier Dome...
USF Bulls Louisville keeps rolling along as the Big East’s only undefeated team, but the rest of the conference has serious questions to answer in the final four Saturdays of the season. Cincinnati and...
USF Bulls The next two years will mark the end of an era for the Big East. No more Jim Calhoun this season. No more Syracuse and no more Pittsburgh next season. No more Notre Dame in the years to come. ...
USF Bulls If Louisville is playing with a chip on its shoulder, Cardinals coach Charlie Strong has to be pleased with the results. Louisville is the lowest ranked undefeated team at No. 11 in the Associa...
USF Bulls Momentum for previously undefeated Cincinnati and Rutgers has been sapped the last two weeks, but the Big East has other teams starting to get hot in recent weeks. Syracuse has won back-to-back...
USF Bulls Just two weeks ago, the Big East was basking in the glow of three teams undefeated in October. That number is down to one. Barely. Louisville edged Cincinnati 34-31 in overtime Friday to k...
USF Bulls The three-game round robin between Cincinnati, Louisville and Rutgers may still determine the Big East championship, but some of the luster is gone after the MAC bit the Big East again this season ...
USF Bulls The Big East race may still be between three teams, but the race lost its luster less than a week before one of the marquee games of the season for the league. Thank Cincinnati for that. T...
USF Bulls Here’s the good news for the Big East for the second half of the season: The league has three nationally ranked, undefeated teams in Louisville, Rutgers and Cincinnati who will all face each othe...
USF Bulls At the midpoint of the 2012 season, it's time to take a look at the first half and predict how the second half will turn out in the Big East. First-Half Awards Coach of the Year – Kyle Fl...
USF Bulls The Big East favorites are well established with Cincinnati, Louisville and Rutgers are vying for the top spot. The middle of the league is a different story. Syracuse’s 14-13 upset of Pitts...
USF Bulls The Big East continues to battle uncertain times, but at least the league as a bona fide race for the title among three ranked teams. No. 16 Louisville, No. 19 Rutgers and No. 25 Cincinnati are all...
USF Bulls Oddly enough, Big East play begins in earnest Friday when the two outgoing teams, Pittsburgh and Syracuse, face off in the Carrier Dome. Thanks to some key non-conference games and the two Big...
USF Bulls National recognition for the Big East is starting to make a comeback -- if incrementally and only for the top three teams in the league. The Big East nearly placed three teams in the Associate...
USF Bulls Four weeks into the season, and it’s tough to figure what to make of the Big East in 2012. Last week was not good. That much is clear: Big East teams lost to two MAC programs. Syracuse dropped a ...
USF Bulls Rutgers’ road win over a team that lost in overtime to Louisiana-Monroe and 52-0 to Alabama saved the Big East further embarrassment in Week 4. Only a week after the Big East went 3-0 agains...