[NU Sports] Chaos Theory

[John Luken]

As for the institutions generally, the 2000 Stanford-Wisconsin Rose Bowl isn't bad.

As for "combined intelligence on the field," I submit that Michigan-Cal ain't all that much.  Each is among the universities with the biggest gaps between the academic achievements of the student body generally and their football players.  Each year, the Stanford Bootleg website runs an analysis of the NCAA's graduation rate data with the primary goal of making fun of how poor the graduation rates are among the athletes, and in particular the football team, at academically mighty Cal. Here is the 2003 version:

http://stanford.scout.com/2/164173.html

Note that a Michigan-Cal Rose Bowl would match the #2 and #4 ranked Division 1A schools in terms of the difference in grad rates between football players and all students.

John Luken

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From: Jeff Beamsley <jeffb at hilgraeve.com>
Date: 2004/11/22 Mon PM 01:27:32 ESTTo: Eric West <e-west at northwestern.edu>
CC: nwu-sports at tssi.com
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Chaos Theory

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.

Anyone else dredge up some historical bowl meetings between similarly 
high ranked academic institutions?

Jeff