Congrats to Louisville for completely dominating North Carolina. A UNC that looked to be much improved this year.

WVU looked very solid again on defense and Rutgers played a very good game. They are still 3-2, and could very well make a bowl game.

UCONN looked dominant and made a huge statement that they are for real this year. They lost to Ga Tech by about the same margin Auburn did, but UCONN was on the road. They dominated SU every bit as much as Florida State, and judging by the UVA game Syracuse isn't a pushover, although they are struggling on offense. Good job UCONN and great atmosphere for national television!

Pitt got their offense on track and it was confirmed once again that UC is by far the worst in the BE this year, but they are young.

Also some nice results from BE opponents. How does USF's domination of UCF look now? Or their closs loss to Penn State? Or playing Miami as tough as Colorado did? (Colorado blew out Texas A&M today.) All of WVU's non-conference opponents won today. (VPI, ECU, Wofford, Maryland).

As of now, I would rank the BE as follows, with the Top 4 all being in the mix for the title and a BCS game:

1. WVU
2. Louisville
3. USF
4. UCONN
5. Rutgers
6. Pittsburgh
7. Syracuse
8. Cincinnati

WVU / UL game next week could be for all the marbles... or will it be the USF/UCONN game on 11/26. The continued good play of WVU and UL this week, and the impressive weekend by UCONN - with what USF has already done - means the rest of the season and the race for the BE title is going to be exciting to watch! Having so many big games the rest of the way will only be a good thing for the BE.

I'm feeling pretty good about the future of the league, too. I think WVU, Louisville, USF, and UConn all have very bright futures. Rutgers is questionable. Pitt and Syracuse, too early to tell anything with the coaching staffs they have, but they don't look good. Cincinnati looks very bad, but D'Antonio obviously can win as last year proves. I'll wait and see how he does with his own players before passing final judgement.

I'm really looking forward to seeing how well USF and UConn (and Rutgers?) travel to bowls.

Quote:I think WVU, Louisville, USF, and UConn all have very bright futures.

I could not agree with you more. The thing people forget this is a very young conference. As good as we looked today people forget that UofL has only 13 Srs. We all know this was suppose to be rebuilding years for WVU, USF and UConn and yet they are showing they are in the upper tier of the league.

Hopefully we will get through 2005 with 2-3 ranked teams and get ready for the Big East climb back to respectability in 2006.

Don't forget, Pitt is recruiting pretty well. Both Wannstadt and Robinson are completely overhauling their offenses. Trying to fit square pegs in round holes. Give them a chance, too.

As for us, it can only go up from here :frown:

Top four are looking very good though

yeah seems like any momentum cinci sports had has been deflated since the huggins resignation, hopefully y'all still stay committed to developing your programs, ahh who am i kidding huggins was uc athletics, i still can't believe your admin booted him out the door the way that they did. i'm sure there will be a lot of alumni and donors that will never forgive them for that, kenyon martin going public didn't help matters either.