... Big East Conference wants to shed the image as the "Least" of the six automatic qualifying Bowl Championship Series (BCS) conferences.

As the long-time super-powered basketball conference seems to be making up for lost time in the football "gold rush" of TV contracts and seismic shifting in the world of college athletics, Commissioner John Marinatto is the latest conference head to hint at expansion as a means to that end.

The college conference landscape underwent massive change in the last 18 months, sparked by the normally reserved Big Ten's Jim Delany comment in late 2009 that super-charged the internet blogosphere into expansion-mania.  The end result was a 12-team Big Ten Conference that adde...

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