CollegeSportsInfo.com News: Big East Expansion and Scheduling Talk: Army and Navy

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Big East Expansion and Scheduling Talk: Army and Navy

In another instance of "If you talk about it on the CollegeSportsInfo.com Message Boards, It will Happen", there is a potential change to the Big East being discussed by league officials. When the Big East lost (3) members to the ACC and made it's replacement picks, there were many on this site who thought the most logical fix would be to bring in Army and Navy for football-only. This would allow the Big East to have either 9-10 members meaning that 8 conference games would be quite easy. Maiking even more sense are that Army and Navy are the only other FBS football programs within the center of the Big East footprint that are not in the Big East (outside of Boston College and Maryland which are in the ACC).

So it seems that the Big East is exploring a deal with Army and Navy in which each school would play (4) Big East conference games each year. So if Army were to play UConn, Syracuse, Rutgers and Pitt, then Navy would play USF, Louisville, Cincinnati, and WVU. Army and Navy would swap opponents the following season.

We'll keep you posted as this develops.

posted by Matt Peloquin # 9:39 AM

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Comments:

Story is already being shot down. Perhaps the good people at West Point remember their last mission into conference play?

As to Navy, that softer schedule has worked wonders for the football program.

# posted by

bevo : July 29, 2008 9:12 PM

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