[NU Sports] Academic matchups in past bowls

[Jim Bendat]

Check out some of these teams who played in past Rose Bowls:

1916 Brown (okay, they played Washington State)
1917 Penn (okay, they played Oregon)
1920 Harvard (okay, they also played Oregon)
1925 Stanford vs. Notre Dame
1929 Cal vs. Georgia Tech

There were also Michigan vs. Stanford matchups in both 1902 and 1972. 
 But, if I had to think very, very hard about my all-time academic 
matchup in the Rose Bowl, I'll have to take 1949 Northwestern vs. Cal. 
 Anyone surprised?

And, Paul Levinson has it right -- forget all this academic 
self-righteousness coming out of $C.  I wouldn't be surprised if those 
so-called brain surgeons are paying off U.S. News & World Report and the 
Princeton Review to get those ratings, just as they probably bought off 
officials during the John McKay years.

Jim B.

NEONRye at aol.com wrote:

>Based on what I saw at the Rose Bowl, and the fact that my cousin, who is  
>certainly no rocket scientist, went to $C, I can't believe they are rated as  
>high as they are academically.  I think they are all brain-dead from  listening 
>to their stupid marching band (which I sat next to in Pasadena), which  is 
>louder than The Who in their prime.
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>Paul Levinson
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