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BIG EAST Football Report Week 9 • Oct. 26, 2009 222 Richmond Street, Suite 110 Providence, RI 02903 BIGEAST.org Contact: Chuck Sullivan, Director of Communications ([email protected] • 401.453.0660); John Paquette, Associate Commissioner ([email protected]) 2009 STANDINGS BIG EAST OVERALL SCHOOL W-L PCT PF PA H A W-L PCT PF PA H A N STREAK Pittsburgh 4-0 1.000 124 62 2-0 2-0 7-1 .875 274 144 4-0 3-1 0-0 Won 4 Cincinnati 3-0 1.000 122 42 1-0 2-0 7-0 1.000 285 96 3-0 4-0 0-0 Won 7 West Virginia 2-0 1.000 62 37 1-0 1-0 6-1 .857 219 149 5-0 1-1 0-0 Won 4 USF 1-2 .333 65 95 0-1 1-1 5-2 .714 216 122 2-1 3-1 0-0 Lost 2 Connecticut 1-2 .333 83 77 1-0 0-2 4-3 .571 198 137 2-1 2-2 0-0 Lost 1 Rutgers 0-2 .000 32 71 0-2 0-0 5-2 .714 203 116 3-2 2-0 0-0 Won 1 Syracuse 0-2 .000 33 68 0-2 0-0 3-4 .429 166 191 3-3 0-1 0-0 Won 1 Louisville 0-3 .000 45 114 0-1 0-2 2-5 .286 141 208 2-1 0-4 0-0 Lost 2 Oct. 25 BCS Standings: 8- Cincinnati; 15 - Pittsburgh; 21 - West Virginia Oct. 25 Associated Press Top 25: 5 - Cincinnati; 16 - Pittsburgh; 20 - West Virginia; rv - Rutgers Oct. 25 USA Today Top 25: 7 - Cincinnati; 17 - Pittsburgh; 20 - West Virginia Oct. 25 Harris Interactive Poll: 6 - Cincinnati; 17 - Pittsburgh; 20 - West Virginia; rv - USF, Connecticut THIS WEEK OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK Friday, October 30 Noel Devine • Jr. • RB • West Virginia • Fort Myers, Fla. West Virginia at USF .........................8 p.m. Devine ran for 178 yards and a touchdown on 23 carries in the Mountaineers’ 28-24 win Television: ESPN2 against Connecticut, keeping West Virginia unbeaten in BIG EAST play. He had 171 rushing Series: Tied, 2-2 yards in the second half, including the deciding touchdown on a 56-yard run with 2:10 left Last Meeting: Dec. 6, 2008 — West Virginia, 13-7 in the fourth quarter. Devine registered his fifth 100-yard game of the season and enters this week’s game at USF ranked third nationally at 130.3 yards per game. Saturday, October 31 Cincinnati at Syracuse ....................... Noon DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK Television: ESPNU Series: Cincinnati leads, 5-4 Dom DeCicco • Jr. • SS • Pittsburgh • Jefferson Hills, Pa. Last Meeting: Nov. 29, 2008 — Cincinnati, 30-10 DeCicco had a team-high 10 tackles, including nine solo stops, to key a Pittsburgh defense Rutgers at Connecticut ...................... Noon that limited USF to 212 yards of total offense in a 41-14 Panther win. USF entered the BIG EAST Network Game of the Week game averaging 379.4 yards and 30.9 points per game. Television: BIG EAST Network Series: Rutgers leads, 19-9 Last Meeting: Oct. 18, 2008 — Rutgers, 12-10 SPECIAL TEAMS PLAYER OF THE WEEK Arkansas State at Louisville ........3:30 p.m. Tavon Austin • Fr. • WR • West Virginia • Baltimore, Md. Television: BIG EAST Network Austin returned the opening kickoff 98 yards for a touchdown in West Virginia’s 28-24 win Series: First meeting against Connecticut. He finished with 118 yards on two kickoff returns and became the first West Virginia player to score on a kickoff return since Darius Reynaud had a 96-yard TD against Maryland Sept. 14, 2006. Bye Week Pittsburgh Next Game: Nov. 7 vs. Syracuse WEEKLY HONOR ROLL Zach Collaros, QB, Cincinnati — Completed 15 of 17 passes for 253 yards and three touchdowns and All times Eastern had 52 rushing yards in his first career start in a 41-10 win against Louisville. Walter Stewart, LB, Cincinnati — Had 10 tackles and an interception in a 41-10 win against Louisville. Helped hold the Cardinals to 275 yards of total offense. Jonathan Baldwin, WR, Pittsburgh — Had six receptions for a career-high 144 yards and a touchdown in a 41-14 win against USF. Joe Martinek, RB, Rutgers — Ran for 139 yards and two touchdowns on 25 carries in a 27-10 win at Army. Delone Carter, RB, Syracuse — Had 30 carries for 170 yards and three touchdowns — all career highs — in a 28-14 win against Akron. BIG EAST NOTEBOOK Better Than Ever Strength Of Schedule Getting It Done Under its current alignment, which is in its fifth The BIG EAST has a 28-7 nonconference record The BIG EAST’s .788 winning percentage in 2009 season, the BIG EAST is a combined 150-58 in through seven weeks of the 2009 season. The ag- is good for second among FBS conferences. nonleague games. (.721). That would stand as gregate record of the seven teams to defeat BIG 2009 Nonconference Records the best five-year nonleague record in the history EAST opponents this season is 33-19. Conference W L Pct. of the conference. SEC 28 5 .848 BIG EAST Nonconference Record To The Victor Goes The Spoils BIG EAST 28 7 .800 Includes Bowl Games Six of the eight current BIG EAST teams have Big Ten 28 10 .737 Year Won Lost Tied Pct. won at least a share of the BIG EAST title in the Big 12 34 13 .723 2009 28 7 0 .800 last five years. Pac 10 20 8 .714 2008 33 14 0 .702 Year BIG EAST Champion ACC 25 15 .625 2007 32 13 0 .711 2008 Cincinnati Mountain West 20 15 .571 2006 37 8 0 .822 2007 West Virginia, Connecticut WAC 17 17 .500 2005 20 16 0 .556 2006 Louisville Conference USA 18 25 .419 2004 23 16 0 .590 2005 West Virginia MAC 15 33 .313 2003 27 18 0 .600 2004 Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Sun Belt 8 23 .258 2002 30 16 0 .652 West Virginia, Boston College 2001 26 12 0 .684 Favorable Comparisons 2000 28 9 0 .757 Sharing The Wealth A look at how Cincinnati QB Tony Pike and Pitts- 1999 19 18 0 .514 Cincinnati is the eighth different team in the last burgh QB Bill Stull compare with some of college 1998 19 17 0 .528 seven years that has won at least a piece of the football’s top signal-callers. 1997 13 24 0 .351 BIG EAST title. C-A-I Pct. Yds. TD 1996 20 17 0 .541 Pike, Cincinnati 128-199-3 64.3 1633 15 1995 15 20 0 .429 What A Rush Stull, Pitt 132-196-4 67.4 1654 16 1994 22 15 0 .595 The BIG EAST has seen its single-season rushing Tebow, Florida 84-132-4 63.6 1159 8 1993 23 12 1 .653 record set in each of the last three seasons. Clausen, ND 150-230-2 65.2 2050 16 1992 27 21 2 .560 2008 Donald Brown, Connecticut, 2,083 yards McCoy, Texas 182-254-8 71.7 1806 14 1991 33 21 0 .611 2007 Ray Rice, Rutgers, 2,012 yards Harris, Miami 122-189-10 64.6 1774 13 Total 475 294 3 .617 2006 Ray Rice, Rutgers, 1,794 yards Moore, Boise State 132-194-2 68.0 1627 21 Where We Stand Genuine Draft The Huskies Have Arrived The BIG EAST ranks third among FBS conferences The BIG EAST had 27 players chosen in the 2009 Connecticut made back-to-back bowl game ap- in nonconference winning percentage since the NFL Draft, good for second in conference history. pearances for the first time in program history in 2005 season. The BIG EAST record was set in 2004, when the 2007 and 2008. Nonconference Records (2005-09) conference had 28 players chosen. Conference W L Pct. Scarlet Success SEC 193 51 .791 Depth Perception Rutgers has won three straight bowl games and Big 12 186 70 .727 Seven of the eight BIG EAST teams were either has played in four straight postseason games – BIG EAST 150 58 .721 ranked or received votes in one of the three major both program firsts. Big Ten 163 69 .703 top-25 polls (Associated Press, USA Today, Harris Pac 10 114 58 .663 Interactive) during the 2008 season. Bulls Here To Stay ACC 166 89 .651 USF likewise reached a bowl game for a program- Mountain West 106 83 .561 Head Of The Class record fourth straight year. WAC 85 108 .440 Six BIG EAST players have been named as semi- Conference USA 98 150 .395 finalists for the 2009 William V. Campbell Trophy, Best In A While MAC 81 174 .318 given by the National Football Foundation & Col- Prior to its loss in last year’s Brut Sun Bowl, Pitts- Sun Belt 40 133 .231 lege Hall of Fame. Semifinalists must be seniors or burgh went 9-3 to enjoy its best regular season graduate students with cumulative GPAs of at least since 1982. 3.2. The award, formerly known as the Draddy Road, Sweet Road Trophy, last went to a BIG EAST player in 2006, Huskies Win On Gridiron And Hardwood Home teams are just 5-6 in BIG EAST games thus when Rutgers’ Brian Leonard earned the honor. Connecticut is the only school in the nation to far. The visiting team had won six of the first eight William V. Campbell Trophy Semifinalists see its football team win a bowl game and see BIG EAST games before home teams went 3-0 in Jeff Linkenbach, OT, Cincinnati both its men’s and women’s basketball teams conference games Saturday.