actually, RU was "tied" for 2nd place this year (ahead of uconn), while 3 teams were "tied" for 1st.
tied for 3rd in 2005 (ahead of uconn), tied for 2nd in 2006 (ahead of uconn), 5th in 2007, tied for 2nd in 2008 (ahead of uconn), tied for 3rd in 2009 (ahead of uconn), and last in 2010 (still beat uconn).
even given what happened in 2010, RU has a better conference record than uconn since the BE has been in its current form. nobody won more BE games from 2005-2009 than RU, except WVU.
and a 7-5 RU team played a meaningless bowl game (obviously not the fiesta bowl...) in arizona, in 2005. sold 7000 through the school, and several thousand more through other channels. case closed?
nice 6 page thread about rutgers, btw.