ORD_Buckeye
Wrong glass, Sir.
We clocked in at #49 in the new rankings this morning. Since they expanded the detailed rankings beyond 50, we were always in the 51-56. We've been banging our head against that top-50 wall for twenty-five years. I still think the size of our freshman classes disproportionately hurts us with their formula. And not just to game the rankings, but we should not be having 7K freshman classes. Bring it back to the 6K where it was a decade ago.
In the B1G, we're 5th (tied with Purdue):
NU 9
TSUN 23
Wiscy 42
Illinois 47
Corn brings up the rear at 136. The next lowest two B1G schools are Iowa and Sparty at 83. Interestingly, Okie is 127, which lends some credence to rumors that Tejas pitched themselves and Okie to the B1G first and were quietly turned away due to OU's academic standing.
Alabama by the way is 148 (literally tied with their branch campus at Birmingham), so please stop the nonsense about Flutie Effects and "athletics is the front porch of the university."
Ohio State is 17th among public universities. We generally are in or near the top 10 in more grad/faculty/research oriented rankings. But when almost every U of Cal campus gets into the top 50 in this formula, it skews things unfavorably for us. I'd put Minnesota over several of those UC campuses also.
In Ohio, it's:
Case 42
Ohio State 49
Fredo drops out of the top 100 at 103
Dayton 127
Juggalo 148 (I seem to have remembered them having some momentum here. No longer the #HottestCollegeInAmerica?
In the B1G, we're 5th (tied with Purdue):
NU 9
TSUN 23
Wiscy 42
Illinois 47
Corn brings up the rear at 136. The next lowest two B1G schools are Iowa and Sparty at 83. Interestingly, Okie is 127, which lends some credence to rumors that Tejas pitched themselves and Okie to the B1G first and were quietly turned away due to OU's academic standing.
Alabama by the way is 148 (literally tied with their branch campus at Birmingham), so please stop the nonsense about Flutie Effects and "athletics is the front porch of the university."
Ohio State is 17th among public universities. We generally are in or near the top 10 in more grad/faculty/research oriented rankings. But when almost every U of Cal campus gets into the top 50 in this formula, it skews things unfavorably for us. I'd put Minnesota over several of those UC campuses also.
In Ohio, it's:
Case 42
Ohio State 49
Fredo drops out of the top 100 at 103
Dayton 127
Juggalo 148 (I seem to have remembered them having some momentum here. No longer the #HottestCollegeInAmerica?
