Big East Conference Football Awards - Footnotes

Footnotes

• a Miami left the Big East for the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) after 2004.
• b The 2012 season was the last for Pittsburgh and Syracuse in the Big East. Both schools will join the ACC in July 2013.
• c Virginia Tech left for the ACC after 2004.
• d West Virginia left for the Big 12 Conference after 2011.
• e Boston College left for the ACC after 2005.
• f Louisville has announced it will leave for the ACC after 2013.
• g Rutgers has announced it will leave for the Big Ten after 2013.
• h Temple, then a football-only member, was expelled from the Big East after the 2004 season due to poor attendance and non-competitiveness. They spent the following two seasons as an independent before becoming a football-only member of the Mid-American Conference in 2007. The Owls returned to Big East football in 2012, and are scheduled to become an all-sports member of the renamed Big East in 2013.
• i Michael Vick and Dion Lewis were selected as both Rookie of the Year and Offensive Player of the Year in the same season, 1999 and 2009, respectively.