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Message: [QUOTE="Nostical, post: 4743709, member: 749"] The New Wall Street Journal College rankings are eye opening. The WSJ, not some promotional rag, ranked every college on a uniform list of criteria and the top five blue bloods were of course predictable. Princeton 1 MIT 2 Yale 3 Stanford 4 Columbia 5 But now let’s look at the rankings of the schools on our football schedule. There were some surprises (to me). Duke 16 FIU 29 BC 45 UConn 46 Rice 64 NC St 106 USF 151 JMU 152 UMass 190 Tenn 193 Sacred Heart 263 Utah St 293 Georgia State 369 Would any of you have predicted FIU being that high? UConn is in a great spot but I wonder how many folks out there—in media or otherwise—might have the same surprised reaction to us being where we are. How many think UConn and UMass would have been closer in the rankings? Say what you want, but I would have lumped FIU in with Utah St, Ga St. and JMU. Not any more. Let’s beat them on the field but I have a new respect for that school. And that’s a good thing. Perceptions are important and anytime we can enhance UConn’s is another step forward. [/QUOTE]