Big East Week 2 power rankings

[Brad]

Big East Week 2 power rankings

September 8, 2009 8:50 AM

Posted by ESPN.com's Brian Bennett

Finally, we have some actual data on which to base these weekly power rankings. Granted, not all of the information is terribly revealing, given that five Big East teams played FCS opponents this week. Still, it's better than nothing. Here are the Week 2 rankings:

1. Cincinnati: Duh. The Bearcats are 1-0 in the Big East and will be atop the league standings until October. No league team -- and few teams nationally -- looked more impressive in its opener.

2. Pittsburgh: The Panthers didn't show a whole lot on offense or defense and still managed to pound Youngstown State 38-3. The overall talent on this team should carry it until the quarterback situation is fully stabilized.

3. West Virginia: I was hoping to see a more solid performance overall from the Mountaineers against Liberty, but some of that can be attributed to Week 1 kinks. All will be forgiven if they beat East Carolina this week.

4. South Florida: The Bulls were shaky in the first half against a pretty good FCS opponent in Wofford. Predictably, they turned it on in the second half and ran away. The jury is still out, and probably will be until Week 4.

Rest of rankings

[E.T.]

WVU shouldn't be over us.

[DELdaBull]

That is terrible that we won't know anything about how good this team MIGHT be until week 4. I would still have us over WVU right now, then Cuse. WVU #5 in the DEL power poll.

[Brad]

WVU 33-20 over Liberty? 

[USFBull10]

anytime we are on top, we always fall....so I guess this isnt a bad thing, really

[Cow Pie]

WV should not be ranked higher then us... Wofford is better then Liberty and WV almost choked against them.

I agree with the week 4 concept... FSU is our first real opponent and Wofford, WKU, and CSU should all be guaranteed wins.

[ahoyboy]

WVU shouldn't be over us.

Unfortunately, we just haven't done anything in the last 2 years to prove that we should be ranked higher.

[outrunner]

1) Cincinnati

2) Pitt

3) USF

4) WVU

5) UConn

6) Syracuse

7) Louisville

8) Rutgers

[E.T.]

WVU shouldn't be over us.

Unfortunately, we just haven't done anything in the last 2 years to prove that we should be ranked higher.

But the current WVU team hasn't either.

[Cow Pie]

Unfortunately, we just haven't done anything in the last 2 years to prove that we should be ranked higher.

This is not a two year ranking its a "2009 season thus far" ranking and our 40-7 beat down win over Wofford is tons better then WV's embarrassing 33-20 two score win over Liberty.

Wofford is better then Liberty