The strength of the AAC versus the Big East isn't dramatically different. All the teams that left the BE are bad to middle of the road in their new conference. AAC has had a number of big wins this season. If Houston, Cinci, USF, UCF, Memphis, Temple, ECU play good football it's a good conference. Also, the AAC is going to own that G5 bowl spot. How much worse off are we than BE which was widely considered the worst AQ conference?