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[QUOTE="Nostical, post: 4743708, member: 749"]
Why are we burying the lead? 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 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,— equal to BC and ahead of Rice—-as I had to FIU. Say what you want, but I’d 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 the school. And that’s a good thing.
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