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'Brawl' win could make West Virginia's season

Brian Bennett, Big East

West Virginia has notched some of the biggest wins for the Big East ever since the league took its current shape in 2005. BCS bowl triumphs over Georg...

Blog | November 24, 2009

Big East lunchtime links

Brian Bennett, Big East

...excellent read. Pitt uses a conventional, pro-style offense -- which puts it in the minority of college football, Paul Zeise says in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Jock Sanders is on the verge of breaking West...

Blog | November 24, 2009

Big East mailbag, Part I

Brian Bennett, Big East

Thanksgiving is only 48 hours away. I can already taste the turkey and stuffing. Mmm ... But it's not time to phone it in yet, because there's still ...

Blog | November 24, 2009

Pike to start at QB vs. Illinois

Brian Bennett, ESPN.com

Tony Pike will start at quarterback for No. 5 Cincinnati on Friday against Illinois, coach Brian Kelly said Monday.

Story | Conversation | November 23, 2009

UConn-Notre Dame pregame ponderables

Brian Bennett, Big East

...Ind. -- Greetings from Notre Dame Stadium, where it's sunny and 50 degrees -- a beautiful day for football. It's Senior Day here at Notre Dame, but there's a decided lack of a buzz...

Blog | November 21, 2009

Join us in the Virtual Pressbox

Brian Bennett, Big East

...afternoon Big East games and other things, and we'll be breaking down all kinds of college football all day. Here's the link. Hope to see you there

Blog | November 21, 2009

Friday mailbag

Brian Bennett, Big East

...I will soon wake up from this three-year nightmare and Louisville will soon have a new football coach. Kragthorpe has been given three seasons and everyone can see that its just not a good...

Blog | November 20, 2009

Friday Q&A: Rutgers running back Joe Martinek

Brian Bennett, Big East

Joe Martinek set the New Jersey prep record with 7,589 career rushing yards and 80 touchdowns at Hoptacong High School. Yet few colleges thought he wa...

Blog | November 20, 2009

Preparation, chemistry fuel Rutgers' success

Brian Bennett, Big East

...hard at it and practices very hard. Every day he goes out there, he is playing a football game in practice. So then it is no mystery that when he gets in the games, he...

Blog | November 19, 2009

Big East's biggest disappointments

Brian Bennett, Big East

Ivan Maisel has an interesting piece up today about how the college football season has thus far been a disappointment. Bruce Feldman chimed in with his 10 biggest disappointments in...

Blog | November 18, 2009

Easley goes from walk-on to big-play guy

Brian Bennett, Big East

...It was a matter of me not having anything to do," he said. "And I still loved football." So he went to an open tryout and impressed the coaches enough to earn a spot on...

Blog | November 18, 2009

Chat at 3 p.m. today

Brian Bennett, Big East

...same old me. So come by SportsNation at 3 p.m. ET and bring your Big East football questions. Hope to see you all there

Blog | November 18, 2009

Big East mailbag, Part II

Brian Bennett, Big East

...from Pittsburgh writes: Hilarious. His arm was going forward? Big break? How long have you been covering football? You know nothing. It would have been a big break if they had ruled it incomplete. Notre...

Blog | November 17, 2009

Big East mailbag, Part I

Brian Bennett, Big East

Lots of mail from a big weekend in the Big East. So I'll answer as many as I can in two parts today. Here is part one: James from Missoula, Mont., ...

Blog | November 17, 2009

Kelly on Notre Dame, moving Va. Tech game

Brian Bennett, Big East

Brian Kelly won't have any press conferences this week, but the Cincinnati coach was typically informative and interesting on the Big East coaches' te...

Blog | November 17, 2009