Big East College Football Teams

This trivia category covers the football teams from the Big East. The conference began football during the 1991-1992 season with the addition of Miami and was a founding member of the Bowl Championship Series.

The conference experienced a major reconstruction when Miami and Virginia Tech left for the Atlantic Coast Conference in 2004, followed by Boston College in 2005. Initially, Syracuse University was in place to make the jump instead of Virginia Tech, but in 2003, the governor of Virginia put pressure on the ACC to ensure that Virginia Tech was taken over Syracuse. Syracuse was left to remain in the Big East.

The trivia questions for this category might cover topics like, “The universities that replaced them were Louisville, USF and Cincinnati from Conference USA.” The league also invited the University of Connecticut to play football a year earlier than planned.