The fans, the talking heads, the college football pundits, they all undervalue the Big East. Is it any surprise Vegas does too?

From 2000-2008, Big East teams have covered the spread 56.3 percent of the time. That’s better than every other league in the country. Ed Gunther of The National Championship Issue did the research and came up with some fun finds, like UConn (covers 55.8%) and Louisville (55.7%) are two of the most notably underrated teams. Or Rutgers has won when it was favored 72.2 % of the time and when it was the underdog 25.4% of the time. (Cincinnati, Pitt, South Florida and West Virginia have all won as the underdog at least 35 percent of the time.)

The Wiz of Odds took the numbers and made a few neat charts to illustrate things. It’s something fun to look at. Check it out.