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Big East making strides in first half of season

By Joe Starkey
Special to ESPN.com

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

This time last year, the Big East was getting bashed more than Drew Bledsoe. It had only one ranked team -- No. 19 Louisville -- and seemed to have no prospects of sending a worthy representative to a BCS bowl game. You know the story from there. Things changed as rapidly as a Steve Slaton sprint to the end zone. Slaton's West Virginia Mountaineers started the Big East rebound with their rousing Sugar Bowl victory over Georgia. Today, the Mountaineers are ranked fifth in the country, one of t ...

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