Big East

A former conference: 12 schools on file. Our membership records under this name start in 1991. 2012 champions: Cincinnati and Louisville and Rutgers and Syracuse.

2012 standings

TeamConf.OverallAPEloLast 5
Louisville5–⁠211–⁠2131643WLLWW
Cincinnati5–⁠210–⁠31658WLWWW
Rutgers5–⁠29–⁠41584WWLLL
Syracuse5–⁠28–⁠51597LWWWW
Pittsburgh3–⁠46–⁠71533LLWWL
UConn2–⁠55–⁠71455LLWWL
Temple2–⁠54–⁠71450LLLWL
South Florida1–⁠63–⁠91406LWLLL

Ordered by conference winning percentage, then conference wins. Division splits and tiebreakers aren’t applied. AP: the AP poll, final (else the final AP rank). Elo is our own rating, a measure of strength, not a prediction.

Against other conferences, 2012

Big East teams are 28–⁠16 outside the conference.

The bar is the share of those games won. Games against teams from lower divisions count together.

All-Big East teams, 2002

The newest teams on file are from 2002.

First team 25

Offense
PositionPlayerSchool
QuarterbackKen DorseyMiamiMiami
Running backWillis McGaheeMiamiMiami
Avon CobourneWest VirginiaWest Virginia
Wide receiverAndre JohnsonMiamiMiami
Larry FitzgeraldPittPitt
Tight endKellen WinslowMiamiMiami
Offensive tackleLance NimmoWest VirginiaWest Virginia
Marc ParenteauBoston CollegeBoston College
Offensive guardBryan AndersonPittPitt
Sherko Haji-RasouliMiamiMiami
CenterBrett RombergMiamiMiami
Defense
PositionPlayerSchool
Defensive linemanWilliam JosephMiamiMiami
Jerome McDougleMiamiMiami
Claude HarriottPittPitt
Dan KleckoTempleTemple
LinebackerJonathan VilmaMiamiMiami
Gerald HayesPittPitt
Grant WileyWest VirginiaWest Virginia
CornerbackAntrel RolleMiamiMiami
Torrie CoxPittPitt
SafetyMaurice SikesMiamiMiami
Sean TaylorMiamiMiami
Specialists
PositionPlayerSchool
KickerTodd SieversMiamiMiami
PunterAndy LeePittPitt
Return specialistNate JonesRutgersRutgers

Second team 21

Offense
PositionPlayerSchool
QuarterbackRod RutherfordPittPitt
Running backDerrick KnightBoston CollegeBoston College
Lee SuggsVirginia TechVirginia Tech
Wide receiverJamel RiddleSyracuseSyracuse
David TyreeSyracuseSyracuse
Ernest WilfordVirginia TechVirginia Tech
Tight endSean RyanBoston CollegeBoston College
Defense
PositionPlayerSchool
Defensive linemanJamaal GreenMiamiMiami
Louis GachelinSyracuseSyracuse
Nathaniel AdibiVirginia TechVirginia Tech
David UpchurchWest VirginiaWest Virginia
LinebackerD.J. WilliamsMiamiMiami
Clifton SmithSyracuseSyracuse
James DavisWest VirginiaWest Virginia
CornerbackShawn SeabrooksRutgersRutgers
DeAngelo HallVirginia TechVirginia Tech
SafetyWillie PileVirginia TechVirginia Tech
Angel EstradaWest VirginiaWest Virginia
Specialists
PositionPlayerSchool
KickerSandro SciortinoBoston CollegeBoston College
Cap PoklembaTempleTemple
PunterVinnie BurnsVirginia TechVirginia Tech

From Wikipedia’s 2002 all-conference team article (CC BY-SA): each player on the best team any selector named him to (the coaches’, the media’s or the AP’s), in the article’s order. Players link to their pages where we could match them.

Champions

Most titles

Miami9last 2003
West Virginia7last 2011
Syracuse5last 2012
Cincinnati4last 2012
Louisville3last 2012
Virginia Tech3last 1999
Pittsburgh2last 2010
UConn2last 2010
Rutgers1last 2012
Boston College1last 2004

By year

2012Cincinnati, Louisville, Rutgers, Syracuse (shared)
2011Cincinnati, Louisville, West Virginia (shared)
2010Pittsburgh, UConn, West Virginia (shared)
2009Cincinnati
2008Cincinnati
2007UConn, West Virginia (shared)
2006Louisville
2005West Virginia
2004Boston College, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, West Virginia (shared)
2003Miami, West Virginia (shared)
2002Miami
2001Miami
10 earlier seasons, back to 1991
2000Miami
1999Virginia Tech
1998Syracuse
1997Syracuse
1996Miami, Syracuse, Virginia Tech (shared)
1995Miami, Virginia Tech (shared)
1994Miami
1993West Virginia
1992Miami
1991Miami

Conference titles as each program’s Wikipedia infobox lists them (CC BY-SA), shared titles counted for every co-champion; the conference’s earlier names count as the same conference.

Schools

  1. Boston College1991–⁠2004
  2. Miami1991–⁠2003
  3. Pittsburgh1991–⁠2012
  4. Rutgers1991–⁠2012
  5. Syracuse1991–⁠2012
  6. Temple1991–⁠20042012
  7. Virginia Tech1991–⁠2003
  8. West Virginia1991–⁠2011
  9. UConn2004–⁠2012
  10. Cincinnati2005–⁠2012
  11. Louisville2005–⁠2012
  12. South Florida2005–⁠2012
Every school and its years (12)

Members

Football membership as CollegeFootballData.com records it under this conference’s name, from 1991; a school’s separate stays are listed apart.

Who came and went

SeasonSchoolMoveAnnounced
2013PittsburghLeft for ACCSource
2013SyracuseLeft for ACCSeptember 18, 2011
2012TempleJoined from Mid-American Conference (football only)Source
2012West VirginiaLeft for Big 12Source
2005Boston CollegeLeft for ACCSource
2005CincinnatiJoined from Conference USASource
2005LouisvilleJoined from Conference USASource
2005South FloridaJoined from Conference USASource
2005TempleLeft to play as an independent (football only)Source
2004MiamiLeft for ACCSource
2004UConnJoined (independent before) (football only)Source
2004Virginia TechLeft for ACCSource
1991Boston CollegeJoined (independent before) (football only)Source
1991MiamiJoined (independent before)Source
1991PittsburghJoined (independent before) (football only)Source
5 earlier moves
1991RutgersJoined (independent before) (football only)Source
1991SyracuseJoined (independent before) (football only)Source
1991TempleJoined (independent before) (football only)Source
1991Virginia TechJoined (independent before) (football only)Source
1991West VirginiaJoined (independent before) (football only)Source

Football moves from Wikipedia’s lists of NCAA Division I conference changes; the season is the first one played in the new conference, and the date the one the lists or their sources give for the announcement. SportsDataverse’s football memberships agree with ours in all 175 team-seasons from 1991. the member tables in the conference’s Wikipedia article agree with ours in all 1 team-seasons from 2012. Conference realignment: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA); memberships: SportsDataverse.

Honors while members

Heisman winners 1

Miami1

Consensus All-Americans 39

Miami15
West Virginia7
Virginia Tech5
Boston College3
Cincinnati2

NFL first-round picks 66

Miami29
Syracuse9
Boston College6
Pittsburgh6
Virginia Tech5

Counted only in seasons a school was a member on file (from 1991); a draft pick counts for the season before the draft. Heisman and All-America lists from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), draft picks from CollegeFootballData.com.

The money

The Big East Conference (its corporation is now the American Athletic Conference) is a nonprofit. Its IRS Form 990 for the year to June 2013 reports $170.9 million in revenue and $154.6 million in expenses; it ended the year with $66.7 million in assets.

By year

YearRevenueExpensesAssetsTop pay
2012-13$171M$155M$66.7M
2011-12$169M$133M$49.8M
2010-11$119M$120M$10.7M

From the organization’s IRS Form 990, via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer and the IRS’s e-file data. Fiscal years end in June; top pay is the best-paid person’s total compensation on the return, listed for e-filed years (2018 on). Grants are the ones the conference lists on Schedule I; bowl payments are the ones bowls list on theirs. See every filing at ProPublica (EIN 51-0244593).