Quote from Kirk Herbstreit on espn.com:

"No matter what it does, the Big East and its automatic bid to the Bowl Championship series are in trouble. Five of eight BCS bids belong to the champions of the ACC, Big 12, Big Ten, Pac-10 and SEC, and the departure of Miami and VT leaves the Big East with teams like West Virginia, Syracuse, Boston College and Pittsburgh to carry the flag.

All are certainly respectable programs with plenty of tradition behind them, but do they carry the same weight as the top schools which perennially compete for the rest of the automatic bids? No.

The Big East is now in the same position as Conference USA and the Mountain West, and this turn of events may open a door for those conferences. If the remaining Big East schools were to battle it out for a BCS bid, how could the exclusion of teams like BYU, Colorado State or TCU be justified?

Perhaps the BCS should take the highest-ranked champion from any of those three conferences."


Umm, excuse me a minute! Why C-USA and Mountain West over the MAC? The MAC is undefeated against C-USA in bowl games, 5-0 since 1998! The MAC has won like 7 or 8 regular season games in a row against C-USA teams.

The MAC is better than C-USA! :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

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Agreed.

CUSA is way over rated.

MAC vs C-USA

2002
Miami 31
Cincy 26

Marshall 38
Louisville 15
GMAC Bowl

2001
Miami 21
Cincy 14

Buffalo 26
Army 19

Toledo 23
Cincy 16
Motor City Bowl

Marshall 64
East Carolina 61
GMAC Bowl

2000
Cincy 45
Miami 15

Marshall 25
Cincy 14
Motor City Bowl

The MAC is 7-1 against C-USA teams since 2000 and 6-0 in the last two seasons!