Don't get me wrong, the Big East is no SEC in terms of football. But you can't convince me it didn't deserve _one_ automatic bid for it's conference champion right up until the end.

That and here's the deal, in the _history_ of bowl games only the now defunct Big West has a better win percentage than the Big East in bowl games with a mighty 2 - 0 bowl record under their belt. Where did this myth that the Big East was anything other than a football power house come from (espn??)? Even after Miami,…