Remember him? Yes, it is pre-season Heisman Trophy candidate Dion Lewis emerging again. (Icon SMI)

The college football world wonders if the Big East was worthy of the BCS automatic qualifier status. A quick glance at the BCS standings and not a single Big East team appears in the top 25.

The supposed top team in the conference, West Virginia, just lost at home to a team, Syracuse, that hadn’t won more than one league game since 2004. Thus, the experts, fans, and other conferences even, tend to look down their noses when gazing at the Big East.

That mediocrity makes watching some of the action difficult, but, conversely, that type of competition should lend itself to allowing stars to break out. It has taken eight weeks, but the Big East has found that team that can dominate the league. Left for dead after losing games at Utah and Notre Dame and getting throttled by Miami (FL) at home – that team is Pittsburgh.

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This may come as a shock to fans of the Chicago Bears and the Miami Dolphins….

Dave Wannstedt is a genius.

The Pittsburgh head coach was the only one from a major college program to offer one special player a scholarship.  After the stellar season this player had, you get to be called a “genius”

That player, RB Dion Lewis, led the Panthers to one of their better seasons in years, and, Pitt was just seconds away from winning the Big East championship.  Lewis (photo, thanks IconSMI) also wins our 2009 Fantasy College Blitz – Big East Conference Fantasy Player of the Year.

The redshirt-freshman from Albany, NY (Blair Academy HS, NJ) rushed for nearly 1300 yards and scored 14 total TDs (stats quoted are through November 21st games), leading the Panthers to a 9-3 overall record and a 6-2 mark in the Big East.

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