College Football - Big East Conference
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History
The Big East conference is formed by schools located in the Eastern part of the United States and it was first founded in 1979. Currently the Big East has a total of seventeen members plus one associate university which is Loyola College in Maryland, Baltimore.
Since the early 1980’s the Big East has been recognized as an elite conference nationwide. Some of the sports sponsored by the Big East are: Basketball, Cross Country, Golf, Soccer, Swimming and Diving, Indoor and Outdoor track in the male and female category and in football, volleyball and baseball just for males.
It was until the 1991-92 season that the Big East conference began its participation in college football games; which have become to be the ones with the highest average of football attendances.
Currently, West Virginia, USF and Rutgers hold the highest records in the conference. Football teams such as University of Miami, which was member of the Big East for 13 years and 9 of them finished as Conference Champion, Syracuse, Louisville, Boston College and Temple have repeatedly made history in the national championships and bowl games.
As in every conference, the Big East also has some rivalries that have been present since the early days amongst which we can mention the Cincinnati Bearcats and Pittsburg Panthers also known as the River City Rivalry and these two teams play for the Paddlewheel Trophy every year. As well, the Cincinnati Bearcats and the Louisville Cardinals have a rivalry in both football and basketball and they play each other for the Keg of Nail.
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