[EmpireWF]

Obviously the first answer out of our keyboards will be NO! But they have a snowballs chance to contend with Louisville and West Virginia. Or perhaps I'm just rooting for the underdog here.

As the Sportz Assassin blog pointed out, their schedule isn't extremely tough. They open the season up next Saturday in North Carolina to play the tarheels. Other potential winning match-ups could be:

Sept. 16th, home, vs. Ohio
Sept. 23rd, home vs. Howard
Sept. 29th, @ South Florida (Big East)
Oct. 14th, @ Navy
Oct. 29th, home, vs. Connecticuit
Nov. 25th, home, vs. Syracuse

The tough games I'd say on the schedule include Illinois, Pittsburgh, Louisville, Cincinnati and the season conclusion AT West Virginia.

[Lefty Noob]

The Scarlet Knights get WVU, Pitt and South Florida on the road. The UNC game is a road game. They lost 56-5 to Louisville last year. Illinois beat them in OT last season. There's a real chance they could lose all six of those games. I like their RB Ray Rice, but they'll have a new QB and they lost 3 of 4 starters on the defensive line. So I, for one, am not buying into the notion that Rutgers can compete for the Big East title.

[mervinout]

i think right now the big east championshop hats will goto lousivlle or WVU. the other teams are either young(USF espically) and up coming or weak, like rutgers and cinn and conn.

The Big East championship will be play NOV 2. AT Papa Johns stadium in Kentucky. Between Bush and Brohm VS. Slaton and White. Next year there might be more contenders but the more i look at it one of these teams might get upset in the bigeast by one team but not both.

Pitt needs one more year. I cant belive Wandstadt can recruit but he is doing a solid job i say one more good year of recruiting, and the departure of an overated palko will help this school out alot. Although id rather see them fall victim to scandals and probhations but thats just a wvu fan talking