In sports, everyone loves to kick someone when they are down. It doesn't matter if it is a player, a coach, a team, or in this case, a Conference. The problem is, although the ACC may be "down" from where it was in years past, as UNC proved last night, it is still a force to be reckoned with.What is most surprising to the casual football fan, may be the pass that the Big East conference is getting in all of this. After the first couple of weeks revealed what many suspected to be a toothless conference with WVU getting blown out by East Carolina and defending Big East Co-Champ UConn squeaking by Temple in OT, the BigEast has somehow avoided the level of criticism directed at the ACC.
It could be the novelty of the Big East, the tendency to root for the underdog, or ESPN's inexplicable love affair with UConn. Whatever the motivating factors, it seems clear that the Big East, unitl now, has been given a disproportionate amount of respect.
Perhaps with a win tomorrow over UConn, UVA can help steer the conference back toward respectability. However, a review of the last couple of years of Big East - ACC match-ups is compelling:
2007
UConn 16 UVA 17
UConn 10 Wake Forest 24
Rutgers 24 Maryland 34
USF 37 UNC 10
PITT 14 UVA 44
2008
Rutgers 12 UNC 44
Based on these results, the Big East is 1-5 in head to head match-ups against the ACC.
Stay tuned to see how the rest of the season pans out...
3 comments:
Well put. The BigEast is clearly the pimple on the ass of college football this year, yet all of the media is still rehashing how awful the ACC is.
No one is claiming that the ACC is worth a lick this year compared to the SEC and B12, but it's clear that the BigEast is holding the torch leading the crap parade.
ESPN's infatuation with UConn???? Is that infatuation why UConn keeps getting relegated to the tv backwater that is ESPNU???? A channel that over 50% of Connecticut doesn't even get on cable?????
I'd hate to see what would happen if they didn't like us
excuse me... love affair
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