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Forecasting the Big East in 2011
It’s an old refrain, but it continues to carry weight: Big East teams won’t impress in conference play, so it’s vital that the conference heavyweights make noise in September. And once again, teams...
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P.S.R. 1-120: Week 3 Re-Ranking
With the weekend in the books, here’s a look at how the country ranks — using the original rankings as the starting point, with the season’s results as rationale for any movement. The top 25 teams...
View ArticleThe Big East’s Lose-Lose B.C.S. Scenario
West Virginia waits by the phone – or in front of the TV, actually. Louisville holds its breath. Both have done all they could do: it took overtime, but the Mountaineers sneaked past South Florida to...
View ArticleThe F.B.S. and the N.C.A.A. Tournament
Just a few notes on college football and the N.C.A.A. tournament, with the latter now down to 32 teams and counting: 1. There were two rematches in the round of 64. Each went along familiar lines: Iowa...
View ArticleTemple Officially Slides in for West Virginia
Just as the Big 12 waited to unveil its conference schedule until West Virginia’s transition was official, the Big East needed to get its own ducks — or Owls, I guess — in a row before releasing its...
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UMass Wants to be New England’s Best
New England occupies the majority of the upper right portion of your U.S. map, though the region’s F.B.S. footprint is significantly smaller. New England is composed of six states: Connecticut, Maine,...
View ArticleAs a Whole, The Big East Scheduled Up
As if getting only three Big East games at home wasn’t bad enough for Syracuse. At least the Orange aren’t alone in this regard: Rutgers, Pittsburgh and Connecticut also play four road games during Big...
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No. 72: Connecticut
Welcome to Storrs, Conn., home of diminishing quarterback results since the last time Dan Orlovsky buttoned his chin strap for the hometown Huskies. That would be in 2004, eight seasons ago – an...
View ArticleIt’s Open Season on Penn State’s Roster
It’s open season on Penn State’s roster. We’ve seen this before, in the early days of the sanctions assessed on U.S.C. three years ago and, if you can think back far enough, in the weeks following the...
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Pick 10, F.B.S. Notebook: Week 3 (Sept. 15)
Do you remember the last time Notre Dame took a trip to East Lansing? You might not remember the game’s first 60 minutes and change, but that’s fine: things didn’t get wild until overtime, when...
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