eagletx {l Wrote}:In the 70's the eastern football "conference" was mythical and notional only. There was a theoretical ECAC "champion" based on overall record of the teams you mentioned including Arm and Navy and Temple as well. It wasn't until after BE basketball had been formed and was successful that BE football conference was discussed as an afterthought for the football playing schools. Penn St. wanted all in or nothing. The BE refused to accept Penn St. into the BE basketball world. Be reminded that the BE has always compromised illogically to suit their narrow aims, (re: ND) and to the present, it is one of the reasons that it teeters on the brink of extinction.
I remember when I first started following BC football, the Big East had unbalanced records. Despite the small size of the conference, not every team played each other, and some teams only played two or three "conference" games while others played a full BE schedule. The standings looked weird. I think one year a team (possibly Cuse) finished first with a 3-0 conference record and beat out someone else with a 5-1 record.