Nov 2nd WVU at Louisville (1 Viewer)

[JimEverett]

Oh and they beat Georgia last year. What was the score like 38-35?

Yeah, it was 38-35, the Big East champs beat the SEC Champs.

Remember that was last year

Yeah it was last year. But it still shows that the program is legitimate.

IMO Georgia got lucky against LSU in the SEC championship game anyway. LSU goes on the beat the mess out of Miami and Georgia loses by a field goal.

Georgia got lucky? They won that game by 20 points, and held LSU to 230 total yards. Georgia's defense dominated LSU - I think they had 2 scores in that game.
And so what if LSU beat Miami in the Chik-fil-a bowl? Beating Miami in a second-tier or third-tier bowl doesn;t mean crap anymore. Plus, it has absolutely nothing to do with West Virginia beating the SEC champs in a BCS bowl.

The Big Least will never be legit conference imo unless they start to schedule tougher non conference competition. Its not like they have to go through a gauntlet of tough teams like those in the SEC have to.

In the Big East's favor - 3 of the 8 teams are ranked, with one more (Pitt) getting votes. That means roughly 40% of their conference is ranked and half are receiving votes in the top 25 poll. 25% of the Big East Conference is ranked in the top 5 - that is pretty impressive.
Compare that to the SEC. The SEC has no one in the top 5 right now. They have 5 teams ranked, which is a little above 40%, and they have 6 teams receiving votes - 50%, just like the Big East.

The Big 12 has one team in the top 5, 3 teams ranked (25%), 6 teams receiving votes (50%).

The Big 10 has two teams in the top 5, 3 teams ranked (27%), 4 teams receiving votes (36%).

The ACC has no teams in the top 5, 5 teams ranked (41%), 6 teams receiving votes (50%).

The PAc 10 has no teams in the top 5, 4 teams ranked (40%), 5 teams receiving votes (50%).

From those numbers, I think the Big East is faring fairly well.

 

[Ric Romero]

Has any team from the Big East actually played anyone besides Louisville? I know they beat the mess out of the U but as far as the other teams go I can't say they have played anyone.

Sure they are ranked high now but in a couple of weeks no one will be talking about any of the teams from the Big East because they certainly are not going to be undefeated anymore. When they play each other all of them will go down to one another.

With that said I can see why people aren't giving them any respect and I can agree to some point. Anyway, I personally hope the Louisville beats the stuffing out of West Virgina and goes undefeated straight to the BCS title game.

 

[JimEverett]

Big East hasn;t matched up against the Pac-10 this season

They are 3-3 v. the Big 10
1-1 v. the Big 12
2-0 v. the SEC
5-3 v. the ACC

But you are right in that they don;t really have a signature win or anything this year.

 

[JimEverett]

This game stinks. Its like the recent Rose Bowl - no defense.
7 plays - TD
6 plays - TD
8 plays - TD
etc.
etc.

Who the hell cares?

 

[Yeti]

LOL @ West Virgina being beat down. For the record, I wouldn't have any problem with Louisville showing up in the National Championship game.

 

[Saint Will]

Both teams looked solid on O but their D's are jokes.

There is no reason they should be ahead of a BigXII or SEC 1-loss team

 

[THAJCODE]

I've never really been a fan of the expression "beat the mess out of ______."

 

[CT Saints Fan]

Well, I admit I misunderestimated Loooooavul.

 

[Ric Romero]

I knew that West Virgina was overrated. When they played some real competition they couldn't even stop them. Although I must admit that wacked rushing attack they have is pretty good. Too bad they can't stop anybody from scoring though.

I'm going to predict that Louisville will wipe the floor with also overrated Rutgers. Louisville should be in a BCS game.

 

[JimEverett]

I would be more willing to let an undefeated West Virginia play for the Championship than an undefeated Louisville. Reason being last year. I mean at least West Virginia won a HUGE game against a BCS conference champ. And I know it was last year, but there is no problem in carryover IMO.

Louisville hasn;t beaten anyone from the top half of BCS conference (not including the Big East) since 2002 - and that win was against a Fla. St. team that ended up with 5 loses. That's pitiful.

 

[CT Saints Fan]

I would be more willing to let an undefeated West Virginia play for the Championship than an undefeated Louisville. Reason being last year. I mean at least West Virginia won a HUGE game against a BCS conference champ. And I know it was last year, but there is no problem in carryover IMO.

Louisville hasn;t beaten anyone from the top half of BCS conference (not including the Big East) since 2002 - and that win was against a Fla. St. team that ended up with 5 loses. That's pitiful.

True, as of today, but when they played Miami back in September, Miami was #17, and lots of people were still expecting Miami to be a contender in the ACC this year. Miami hasn't been the same team since that 31-7 drubbing .

 

[JimEverett]

That's a good point. But I just say that Miami looked pathetic against Florida St. before their game with Louisville.

 

[CT Saints Fan]

Yeah, Miami definitely isn't Miami right now, but we didn't know that then when they played Florida State or Louisville. In fact, #11 FSU vs. #12 Miami was just thought to be close because they were 2 good teams. Now we can see it was close because they were 2 really mediocre teams.

 

[Waymer]

Rutgers at least has a more balanced attack and while not a great defense, one that is 10x better than West Virginia. That being said, Louisville should take that game, but you never know...the thing with Rutgers is they can control the clock with Leonard and Rice, and keep Brohm and company off the field. Should be another good Thursday night matchup.