Am I jumping the gun with the first weekend of Big East football not even completed? Perhaps, but I can’t shake that vibe. That this is a 2004 kind of year in the Big East.

UConn, the supposed darkhorse pick to win the Big East looked like Pitt against WVU/Pat White circa 2006 while being embarrassed by Michigan. Rutgers and WVU struggled in the first half before putting away their respective 1-AA foes 31-0.

Louisville had a nice cosmetic score late to make it a close loss to Kentucky. USF is failing to shut out their 1-AA foe. Cinci has to beat Fresno State on the road late tonight.

I mean, it is entirely possible that by the end of the night Syracuse could very well be the only Big East team to beat a 1-A foe — sort of. They are handling the Zips of Akron.

Yes, it doesn’t help that except for Louisville, all the 1-A matches played by Big East were on the road. It is not like any of the games should have been against top-10 teams.

This is not shaping up to be the kind of season for conference pride.

Spent most of yesterday running errands and all things to clear Saturday for watching mis-matched football games.

It also meant being a little late to review what happened Thursday night. Since the media stuff is a bit stale, I’ll skip most of it.

By all means, be sure to read over the Zeise posts from after the game. Very informative from the view of someone who could see more of the field.

While I was pleasantly surprised with Vs. for actually having decent HD cameras for the game, there was a lot that wasn’t seen because of the the camera angles. To say nothing of the game calling.

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