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Week 10 was all about Cincinnati. (ESPN.com)
People voters are dumb, computer voters like Cincinnati and the Big East is not looking so second-tier anymore. (Rivals.com)
Brian Kelly’s never had an easy road with quarterbacks. This one should be, though: just stick with Zach Collaros. Here too. And here. (The News Record, AP, Cincinnati Enquirer)
Everyone loves Kelly now. There’s still a Pitt game to play. (Daily Gamecock)
The Huskies need a break, from football and from each other. (The Day)
That’s probably why Randy Edsall was quick on his conference call. The university is hosting a celebration of Jasper Howard’s life Thursday evening. (Hartford Courant)
When they do get back at it, they could add a couple nails to Charlie Weis’ coaching coffin. (Connecticut Post)
Boise State ought to make a trip out to East Hartford. (Sox and Dawgs)
Louisville just might have played its best football Saturday. Of course, the Cards still lost. (Louisville Courier-Journal)
Human voters apparently like Pitt more than computer voters. (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
Pitt’s peaking when it needs to. Its last three opponents? Not so much. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Rutgers’ linebackers are anchoring the Knights’ defense. They’re fun too. (Daily Targum)
South Florida’s defensive ends have an admirer in Rutgers’ defensive end. If Rutgers gets to seven wins, seven fifth-year seniors will get to go to five bowls. (Star-Ledger)
Greg Schiano knows that 49-16 win over South Florida last year was not a real blowout. Rutgers could use a little more consistency on special teams. (Home News Tribune)
Carlton Mitchell isn’t looking good for Thursday’s trip to Rutgers. (Tampa Tribune)
South Florida’s 13 of 42 on third downs in its last three. Rutgers brings a lot of pressure on third downs. Excellent bit of research: 31 of the 120 FBS teams have been to four straight bowls. (St. Petersburg Times)
The game plans were the same. Syracuse just couldn’t actually execute it. (Syracuse Post-Standard)
Jarrett Brown’s thrown for roughly the same number of yards in these last six games as he did in West Virginia’s first THREE games. What’s up with that? (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
West Virginia’s primed to play spoiler. (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
Aditi Kinkhabwala has written a regular column for SI.com and been published in Sports Illustrated.
This author starts out her morning big east sports roundup with left winged political screeds every day. keith olbermann must be proud.