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Northeast Power Rankings Week 8

It's all of the old Big East, except Miami northward.. as good a collection as any.
 
JwittersPAC said:
Navy, Maryland and Penn State were in the Big East?
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No, but they are between Virginia Tech and the New England region. What I meant (but didn't state clearly) is that they extended the definition of Northeast to be the states that represented the original Big East football conference on north.
 
ScottVib said:
No, but they are between Virginia Tech and the New England region. What I meant (but didn't state clearly) is that they extended the definition of Northeast to be the states that represented the original Big East football conference on north.
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Penn St was going to be invited in the 80s for all sports but Georgetown and the other privates vetoed it.
 
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Husky92 said:
From my New England perspective (which is skewed compared to people from other parts of the country) I draw the line of northeast at Pennsylvania. Once you go past Pennsylvania and New Jersey you aren’t in the northeast anymore. You’re mid Atlantic and mid west…
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It’s called the Mason Dixon line.
 
Husky92 said:
From my New England perspective (which is skewed compared to people from other parts of the country) I draw the line of northeast at Pennsylvania. Once you go past Pennsylvania and New Jersey you aren’t in the northeast anymore. You’re mid Atlantic and mid west…
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Functionally for college sports it's the northeast. The line might make sense for mounting a military campaign in the 1860s.
 
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