Posted by Kevin (Admin) on 03/10/2010
The inaugural New Era Pinstripe Bowl is set for December 30, 2010 at the new Yankee Stadium in Bronx, New York. The game will be televised by ESPN.
The Pinstripe Bowl will match the third-place Big East team against the sixth-place Big 12 team. The teams will be ranked and chosen after the BCS selections. The conferences are tied into the bowl for four years, as is the sponsor New Era.
The Notre Dame Fighting Irish and Army Black Knights will meet on November 20, 2010 in the first ever game at Yankee Stadium.
The creation of the New Era Pinstripe Bowl brings the total number of bowl games to 35. That means 70 teams can qualify for a bowl game in the 2010 season.
Posted by Kevin (Admin) on 02/10/2010
The 2010 Big East football schedules were released today and have been posted. The season begins on Thursday, September 2 when Pittsburgh travels to Utah and Norfolk State visits Rutgers. Conference play will begin on October 8.
Some of the prominent non-conference games include Cincinnati at N.C. State, Oklahoma at Cincinnati, Connecticut at Michigan, Kentucky at Louisville, Louisville at Oregon State, Miami (FL) at Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh at Notre Dame, North Carolina at Rutgers, Boston College at Syracuse, USF at Florida, USF at Miami (FL) and West Virginia at LSU.
Listed below are links to the 2010 Big East football schedules and tickets:
Posted by Kevin (Admin) on 12/08/2009
The Cincinnati Bearcats are the 2009 Big East Conference Football Champions. Our Football Fan Shop now has Cincinnati Bearcats champions gear in stock, including t-shirts.
Cincinnati will face the Florida Gators in the 2010 Allstate Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, Louisiana. Sugar Bowl fan gear is also available in the fan shop.
Standard 3-day shipping is a flat rate of $4.99 per order, so order as many items as you like (applies to 48 Continental U.S. States only). Click on the picture below to be taken to the main page of the Cincinnati fan shop.
Cincinnati Bearcats 2009 Big East Conference Champions T-Shirts
Posted by Kevin (Admin) on 12/01/2009
The Florida International Golden Panthers and the Pittsburgh Panthers have scheduled a home-and-home football series in 2010 and 2014, the schools have announced. Pitt will host FIU on October 2, 2010 and will travel to face the Golden Panthers in Miami on September 13, 2014.
The 2010 game between FIU, a member of the Sun Belt Conference, and Pittsburgh, a member of the Big East, will be the first ever between the two schools.
Pittsburgh also announced their non-conference schedule through 2013. Those games have been posted to Pitt’s schedules and their home page.
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Posted by Kevin (Admin) on 10/02/2009
The Louisville Cardinals and the Marshall Thundering Herd have scheduled a home-and-home football series for 2011 and 2014, the schools announced yesterday.
The Cardinals will host the Thundering Herd on October 1, 2011. On September 27, 2014, Louisville will travel to face Marshall.
Louisville and Marshall have met 27 times since 1921. The Cardinals lead the overall series 16-11 and won eight in a row from 1965 to 1981. Marshall has won the last three contests, at Louisville (1987), at the Motor City Bowl (1998) and at the GMAC Bowl (2002).
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Posted by Kevin (Admin) on 08/27/2009
The Tennessee Volunteers have added the Cincinnati Bearcats to their 2011 football schedule. The Vols will host the Bearcats at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville on September 10, 2011.
Tennessee was originally slated to host Southern Miss on that date, but the Golden Eagles requested the game be moved to a future season. The Vols will now host Southern Miss on September 2, 2017.
The Volunteers are 4-1 overall against the Bearcats and have won the last four games in the series. The last game was played in 1992 and Tennessee won 40-0.
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Posted by Kevin (Admin) on 08/18/2009
The Syracuse Orange will host three football games at the new Meadowlands Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, Syracuse.com reports. Syracuse will play the USC Trojans in 2012 and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in 2015 and 2017.
The USC game was previously scheduled for September 8, 2012 at the Carrier Dome. No word yet on whether that date will change.
The Notre Dame games are part of a new four game series between the two schools. Syracuse will play two games at South Bend, Indiana, but those dates haven’t been announced yet.
All three of the games at Meadowlands Stadium will be considered home games for the Syracuse Orange.
Update (08/19/2009; 11:15 a.m.):
Syracuse and USC will face off at Meadowlands Stadium on September 8, 2012. Syracuse and Notre Dame will meet on September 27, 2014 and September 3, 2016. In addition, the Orange will play at Notre Dame on November 21, 2015 and October 7, 2017.
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Posted by Kevin (Admin) on 08/01/2009
The Pittsburgh Panthers and the Utah Utes have scheduled a home-and-home football series, the schools announced on Thursday.
The Utes will host the Panthers on September 11, 2010 in Salt Lake City. On October 15, 2011, Utah will make the return trip to Pittsburgh.
In their only meeting in the 2005 Fiesta Bowl, Utah beat Pittsburgh 35-7 and finished the season 12-0.
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Posted by Kevin (Admin) on 07/31/2009
The Michigan Wolverines and the Connecticut Huskies have scheduled a home-and-home football series, several sources reported today. Michigan will host UConn on September 4, 2010 and will travel to face the Huskies on September 21, 2013.
Connecticut was scheduled to face Northeastern at home on September 4, 2010, but that game has been moved to October 9.
This series will mark the first games between the Wolverines of the Big Ten and the Huskies of the Big East.
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Posted by Kevin (Admin) on 07/24/2009
The Rutgers Scarlet Knights and the Army Black Knights will play the second ever college football game at the new Yankee Stadium. The game will be played on Saturday, November 12, 2011.
This game will be the second for Army at the new Yankee Stadium. The Black Knights will face Notre Dame there on November 20, 2010.
Rutgers and Army have met a total of 35 times since 1891. The Black Knights lead the overall series 18-17, but the Scarlet Knights have won 5 in a row.
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Posted by Kevin (Admin) on 07/09/2009
The Rutgers Scarlet Knights and UCLA Bruins have scheduled a home-and-home football series, the schools announced this week. Rutgers will host UCLA on September 1, 2016 at Rutgers Stadium in Piscataway. On September 2, 2017, the Bruins will host the Scarlet Knights at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.
The 2016 game will be the first between Rutgers, a member of the Big East, and UCLA, a member of the PAC-10.
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Posted by Kevin (Admin) on 05/21/2009
The West Virginia Mountaineers have added the UNLV Rebels to their 2010 football schedule. The game will be played in Morgantown, WV on October 9, 2010.
This will be the first ever game between the Mountaineers of the Big East and the Rebels of the Mountain West Conference.
West Virginia has also announced that they have extended their contract with Maryland two additional years. That means they will have games with the Terrapins in 2012 and 2013. The Mountaineers also announced changes to their series with Florida State. The teams will play in Tallahassee in 2012 and in Morgantown in 2013.
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Posted by Kevin (Admin) on 04/28/2009
The Michigan State Spartans have added two power conference teams to their future football schedules, the school announced Monday. Michigan State has signed home-and-home agreements with the Alabama Crimson Tide of the SEC and the West Virginia Mountaineers of the Big East.
Michigan State will play at Alabama in 2016 and will host the Crimson Tide in 2017. The 2016 game will be the first meeting between the two schools.
The Spartans will play at West Virginia in 2014 and will host the Mountaineers in 2015. Michigan State holds a 4-0 series lead over West Virginia, but the two teams haven’t played each other since 1942.
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Posted by Kevin (Admin) on 04/21/2009
The Rutgers Scarlet Knights have added two power conference teams to their future football schedules, the school announced last week. Rutgers has added the Miami Hurricanes of the ACC and the Penn State Nittany Lions of the Big Ten.
Rutgers and Penn State will play at Rutgers Stadium in 2014 and at Happy Valley in 2015. The Nittany Lions lead the all-time series 22-2.
The Scarlet Knights have also reached a preliminary agreement to host Miami in 2018 and play at Dolphins Stadium in 2019. The Hurricanes hold a 11-0 record against the Scarlet Knights.
Rutgers also announced a three-game series with the Tulane Green Wave of Conference USA. The Scarlet Knights will host the Green Wave in 2010 and 2014 and will travel to New Orleans in 2012. Rutgers and Tulane have met four times, and the Scarlet Knights hold a 3-1 series lead.
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Posted by Kevin (Admin) on 03/09/2009
On Friday, the Big East Conference officially released the 2009 college football schedules. We have updated our schedules to reflect these dates. Listed below are links to the 2009 schedule for each Big East football team:
Posted by Kevin (Admin) on 03/03/2009
The Illinois Fighting Illini have scheduled a home-and-home football series with the Cincinnati Bearcats, IlliniHQ reported on Friday.
The Illini will travel to face the Bearcats at Nippert Stadium on November 28, 2009. On September 7, 2013, Illinois will host Cincinnati at Memorial Stadium.
Illinois and Cincinnati have never played each other in football. The Fighting Illini finished 5-7 in 2008. Cincinnati finished 11-3 and won the 2008 Big East Championship. They lost 20-7 to Virginia Tech in the Orange Bowl.
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Posted by Kevin (Admin) on 02/27/2009
In October 2008, we posted that LSU and West Virginia had verbally agreed to schedule a home-and-home football series for 2010 and 2011. Yesterday the agreement was announced as official. The game will be played at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge on September 25, 2010 and at Mountaineer Field in Morgantown on September 24, 2011.
The two-game series will be the first matchups ever between the Tigers of the SEC and Mountaineers of the Big East.
In 2008, LSU finished 7-5 with a 38-3 win over Georgia Tech in the Chick-fil-A Bowl. West Virginia finished 9-4 with a win over North Carolina in the Meineke Car Care Bowl.
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Posted by Kevin (Admin) on 01/08/2009
The Florida State Seminoles and USF Bulls have announced a home-and-home college football series beginning in 2009. The teams will face off at Doak Campbell Stadium in Tallahassee on September 26, 2009. The final game of the series will be played at Raymond James Stadium in Orlando on September 29, 2012.
This will be the first meeting ever between the two schools. Florida State is coming off a 9-4 season in 2008, including a Champs Sports Bowl win over the Wisconsin Badgers. USF, who plays in the Big East Conference, finished the 2008 season 8-5 and beat Memphis in the magicJack St. Petersburg Bowl.
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Posted by Kevin (Admin) on 11/12/2008
We have posted the 2009 USF Bulls Football Schedule. Their non-conference schedule includes games at Florida State, Miami (FL) and Western Kentucky and home against Charleston Southern and Wofford.
Listed below are links to the USF 2009 schedule and our USF Bulls home page:
Update (03/09/2009) – The schedule is now official.
Posted by Kevin (Admin) on 11/12/2008
The Minnesota Golden Gophers and Syracuse Orange have agreed to a home-and-home football series beginning in 2009. The game will be played at Syracuse on September 5, 2009 and at Minnesota on September 22, 2012.
The game completes the Minnesota Golden Gophers 2009 football schedule. The Syracuse Orange 2009 football schedule has not been officially released yet.
Minnesota and Syracuse have only met twice in football. The series is tied at one game each, with Minnesota winning 35-33 in 1996 and Syracuse winning 27-17 in 1995.
