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The good news for Dave Wannstedt's Pittsburgh Panthers is they've essentially wrapped up the Big East championship after just three conference games. Credit the collapse of everyone else around them. The Panthers need to go but 2-2 the rest of the way for an outright conference championship no matter what else the competition does. Not that they'll need the help after obliterating Syracuse, Rutgers and Louisville by a combined score of 106 to 38.The Panthers' main challenge is to not get sucked into the Big East's ugly parity vortex. Take for example, upcoming opponent Connecticut. The Huskies are 0-3 on the road but 4-0 at home including an upset win over West Virginia aided by seven forced fumbles in a game they were outgained by 136 yards. For whatever reason, this madness is common, and saw its most recent victim in resurgent Syracuse.
The offensively challenged Orange surged to a 3-1 conference mark with shutdown defense and a sharp focus through the duration of each game. With a chance to gain bowl eligibility last week, they bombed. The Orange were gifted a Louisville opponent that limped in after a 20-3 loss to Pittsburgh that saw them lose quarterback Adam Froman and one of the nation's best backs, Bilal Powell. Shutdown City again, right?
Wrong.
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Source: http://ncaafootball.fanhouse.com/2010/11/10/big-east-report-vortex-of-parity/
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