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Welcome to your midweek mailblog. For all you West Virginia fans who have asked, you can delete me from your life forever and add David Ubben. I hear he has made a few friends already. And yes, it seems I forgot Pitt-Kentucky in the BBVA Compass B...

Cincinnati Bearcats Record: 9-3, 5-2 Big East The good news is that Cincinnati is going back to a bowl game after winning a share of its third Big East championship in the last four season. The bad news is that the Bearcats were this close to m...

Pumpkin bread pudding sounds great right about now ... The slipping Cincinnati Bearcats say they are just fine. UConn receiver Isiah Moore vows to hold onto the football. Buying in has paid off for a young Louisville team. Pitt coach Todd G...

CINCINNATI BEARCATS Record: 4-1 (0-0, Big East) The obvious storyline heading into the season was this: The Bearcats had plenty of options on offense, but would the defense be any better? One of the worst units in the league returned all its st...

Today on ESPN.com, we're taking a closer look at city schools in college football. Our definition of a city school is one that competes in the same city/market as an NFL franchise. The Big East has a few of them. Let's start with a look at the Cincin...

We've come to the end of the line in our hope and concern series, where we've been taking a look at the biggest reasons for optimism and pessimism for each Big East team's 2011 season. Since this went in reverse alphabetical fashion, the Cincinnati B...

2010 overall record: 4-8 2010 conference record: 2-5, seventh in Big East Returning starters: Offense: 5. Defense: 11. Punter/kicker: 1. Top returners: QB Zach Collaros, RB Isaiah Pead, WR D.J. Woods, OT Alex Hoffman, DT Derek Wolfe, DE ...

There's cautious optimism for better things from the Big East this season. Clearing the bar set in 2010 won't be difficult.

An injury forced Tyler Rader to change positions, and that ended up being a blessing for him and the Mountaineers. Where will former West Virginia nose tackle Chris Neild end up in the NFL? Doug Hogue and some other former Syracuse stars are wa...

CINCINNATI -- Butch Jones says the leader of his receivers group, and one of the most respected players on the Cincinnati Bearcats, is a guy who has never played a major college game. That's how impressive Kenbrell Thompkins has been. And consider...

My hamstrings hate me. My shoulders are not my biggest fans right now, either. For most of the past 72 hours, they and other body parts have been growling at me, wondering what in the world I was thinking when I decided on an ambitious (read: fool...

Now that the entire Big East schedule is out, it's time to analyze the slates for each league team. I'll do this alphabetically, starting with Cincinnati. Cincinnati Bearcats Nonconference opponents (with 2010 records): Sept. 1: Austin Peay ...

CINCINNATI BEARCATS The class 2011 signees: 24 Top prospects: Jameel Poteat is a running back with speed and strength whom the Bearcats pried away from Pittsburgh. Daniel Murray is ranked as one of the nation's top centers, and Cincinnati we...

Cincinnati Bearcats Record: 2-3 (0-0 Big East) Cincinnati players got very used to winning the past two years as they went 23-2 in the regular season and captured back-to-back Big East titles. So it felt awfully foreign to the Bearcats to s...

No team in the Big East had more ready-made motivation this offseason than Pittsburgh. The Panthers won 10 games in 2009 but remained haunted by what could have been. Their three losses all came down to the final gun, with the most painful being a...

With a wealth of talent returning to Big East backfields, expect more handoffs this season.