POKE FAN
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The Wall Street Journal recently published a new set of rankings measuring U.S. colleges and universities based on their academic strength. A comparison was made to football success (focused on the "Power Five"). I don't have an on-line subscription to the WSJ, but it would be interesting to see where Wyoming and several other MWC schools rank with a few of these "Power Five" institutions.
Oregon and Nebraska are both at the bottom of their respective conferences in terms of academic rankings. Utah is third from the bottom in the PAC 12.
If College Football’s Rankings Were Based on Academics...(Wall Street Journal)
The hierarchy of the power five conferences shifts dramatically when you rank teams by strength of its university
The college football universe is unabashedly obsessed with rankings. Teams are ranked before they even play a game every season, and the magnitude of a win or less is measured by its reflection in the polls. Then the real arguments begin when the College Football Playoff releases its official rankings later in the season, which turns into a weekly exercise in euphoria and hysteria for the various teams in the hunt.
But one idea is lost in the endless comparisons: The players involved are representing actual universities where people take classes and learn things. For football fans, this opens an extra dimension of bragging rights.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/college-rankings-football-vs-academics-1476293728?mod=e2tw
Oregon and Nebraska are both at the bottom of their respective conferences in terms of academic rankings. Utah is third from the bottom in the PAC 12.
If College Football’s Rankings Were Based on Academics...(Wall Street Journal)
The hierarchy of the power five conferences shifts dramatically when you rank teams by strength of its university
The college football universe is unabashedly obsessed with rankings. Teams are ranked before they even play a game every season, and the magnitude of a win or less is measured by its reflection in the polls. Then the real arguments begin when the College Football Playoff releases its official rankings later in the season, which turns into a weekly exercise in euphoria and hysteria for the various teams in the hunt.
But one idea is lost in the endless comparisons: The players involved are representing actual universities where people take classes and learn things. For football fans, this opens an extra dimension of bragging rights.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/college-rankings-football-vs-academics-1476293728?mod=e2tw
