[NU Sports] Chaos Theory

[Jeff Beamsley]

I guess I just forget that USC has as high an academic rating as they do. 

An NU-Stanford rose bowl would be one for the ages.

Jeff


John Labbe wrote:

>If you're talking only public universities, then I think UM v. Cal. would take the cake.  There's not a higher academic matchup in division 1 (based on US News rankings).
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>But taking into consideration all universities, I'd say our last two Rose Bowls, vs. USC and vs. Cal were pretty good.  Interestingly, if you average the current US News rankings for the schools, our matchup with USC beats the Mich-Cal matchup by 1 point.
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>The highest possible matchup in Division 1 would be Duke v. Stanford.  The second highest, though, would be NU vs. Stanford, a possible Rose Bowl scenario.
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>On Monday, November 22, 2004, at 01:38PM, Jeff Beamsley <jeffb at hilgraeve.com> wrote:
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>>My wife mentioned that if the Rose Bowl does turn out to be Cal and 
>>Mich, it will probably be the most combined intelligence on the field 
>>for a post season contest in quite a while since they both are generally 
>>regarded as the top public institutions in the country.
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>>Anyone else dredge up some historical bowl meetings between similarly 
>>high ranked academic institutions?
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>>Jeff
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>>Eric West wrote:
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>>>At 12:24 AM 11/21/2004, SjT (Stephen J. Truog) wrote:
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>>>>BCS chaos could rule and Boise State or Louisville could jump into 
>>>>the top
>>>>six along with Utah! TWO "mid-major" BCS busters? Don't laugh!:)
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>>>>And who would lose with that? Cal. With the two automatic bids gone, 
>>>>all of
>>>>a sudden, Pasadena is left without their Golden Bears.
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>>>>Throw in upsets from the ACC, Big Least and title games and a ND or UCLA
>>>>upset of $C and you could get the BCS Chaos Theory ...
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>>>>ORANGE: Utah vs. Boise State
>>>>ROSE: Michigan vs. USC
>>>>SUGAR: Tennessee vs. Virginia
>>>>FIESTA: Iowa State vs. Pitt
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>>>You're right about Boise State and Louisville inching toward the BCS 
>>>Top 6; I'm surprised nobody mentioned this possibility on ESPN's 
>>>college football wrap-up shows. (Then again, as far as I could tell 
>>>they didn't even mention the NU-Illinois result, so there you go.) 
>>>However, in your Chaos scenario: if the Top 3 all lose and Cal 
>>>doesn't, there's a good chance they would be one of the BCS Top 2 
>>>teams, so they would be in the Orange. Maybe you were including a Cal 
>>>loss to Southern Miss, though. That would be funny.
>>>
>>>Eric West
>>>e-west at northwestern.edu
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