Terry Mitchell

Big East No Longer Worthy of Automatic BCS Bid



Posted: Thursday, October 27, 2011

by Terry Mitchell
http://commenterry.blogs.com

The winner of the Big East should no longer receive an automatic bid to a BCS bowl. The conference is not worthy anymore. Last year, it was represented in the Fiesta Bowl by a mediocre Connecticut team, which was crushed by Oklahoma. With none of its teams currently in the BCS top 20, the Big East is not likely to crown a highly-ranked champion this year either.

Besides, with three of its best football schools – Pittsburgh, Syracuse, and West Virginia – on their way out, the league will soon be down to just five football-playing schools. That’s one short of what’s needed to be recognized as a conference by the NCAA. Although that number will probably be boosted by the addition of schools like Navy, Air Force, Central Florida, SMU, and Houston, the void left by the loss of quality football schools will not be filled any time soon.

After this season, the Big East’s automatic berth in a BCS bowl should be revoked, with that slot being reserved for a fifth at-large entry. The days of the Big East as a big-time football conference, sadly, are over.
Terry Mitchell is a software engineer, freelance writer, amateur political analyst, and blogger from Virginia, USA. He posts a least one article a day to his blog - http://commenterry.blogs.com - on subjects such as current events, politics, technology, society and culture, religion, health and well-being, self improvement, personal finance, trivia, and sports. He is also the owner of a new privacy-enhanced search engine - http://www.SearchMost.com.

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» left by Paul Kemp
 210 days 2 hours ago.
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I definitely agree with you Terry. I think they come up for review next year and barring some miracle, they are probably out of the BCS. I don't even want to guess what will make up the BCS after all the chips fall. It seems the conference carousel is spinning like a tornado of late.

P.S. for the record, I didn't rate the article at all. I just noticed that it is stuck at 3 Stars. I tried to change that but it won't let me. It's definitely worthy of more than three starts. Sorry Terry.
» left by Terry Mitchell 209 days 10 hours ago.
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Paul, thanks for reading and commenting. I'm glad you think the article deserves more than three stars. :-)
» left by Christofer French
 210 days 2 hours ago.
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Great article and timely. For sure, the tornado or carousel is definitely whirling. Agree with your take. Thanks for your efforts.
» left by Terry Mitchell 209 days 10 hours ago.
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Christofer, thanks for reading and commenting. I'm glad you like the article.
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