Rutgers and Louisville, two of the three undefeated teams residing in the "mighty" Big East, have held serve today with conference wins. Cincinnati should go through tonight with a win over a spunky Fordham squad, which will mean that the conference would get into the second half of October with three squads capable of sniffing the top ten (someday).
Being that this is the Big East the stakes are unbelievably high. To the winner--a BCS bowl say the Sugar. Second place? The Russell Athletic Bowl to be played on 12/28. 3rd? The mighty Belk Bowl played a day earlier. And being that the conference is in between the era dominated by West Virginia and a new era that just may be dominated by Boise State, the pressure is on the three undefeateds to finish the job and get to play in January in a bowl people care about.
I do not want to forget Temple in all of this as they have jumped out to a 2-0 conference record. They host Rutgers next week and will not lay down. Louisville gets USF next week and had better not be looking ahead to the big match-up with Cincinnati the following Friday. The Bearcats, meanwhile, stay out of conference with a road game against a very good Toledo squad that is 6-1 and looking forward for a chance to chase Cincy from the ranks of the unbeatens.
Should be a fun second half of the season for the Big East.
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