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On a scale of 1-10, 10 being the most difficult:

CONFERENCE USA

10 Rice
8 SMU
8 Tulane
5 Tulsa
5 UCF
4 Houston
4 Memphis
3 Southern Miss
2 East Carolina
2 Marshall
2 UTEP
2 UAB

BIG 12

7 Texas
7 Missouri
5 Colorado
5 Oklahoma
5 Kansas
5 Nebraska
4 Baylor
4 Texas A&M
3 Iowa State
3 Texas Tech
2 Kansas State
2 Oklahoma State

WTF, how did UAB get into the Big XII before we did?

Haha, damn cut-and-paste. All fixed.

Also TCU is rated as a 5. I think if they had another year like last year where they gambled on 7 kids who were eligibility questionmarks until Fall drills then that might be adjusted down. I don't have any inside info but don't be surprised to see TCU get a "late surprise" specifically from conferences which limit partial qualifiers such as the Big 12 or SEC. It usually happens about this time of year.

I wouldn't mind us dropping to a 5 if it means a couple more big time recruits.

CUSA averages a 4.58 while the Big XII averages 4.33. Kinda interesting that SMU, Tulane and Rice really "bolster" the conference in this regard. It's also interesting that the Big XII's bottom-half averages out higher than CUSA's. I'm surprised to see Baylor so low, but then again I know nothing of their admissions standards.

As far as the "Magnolia League" teams go, all the ones listed are and 8-10, with the exception of TCU (5) and Baylor (4). Kinda interesting as well.

I guess admissions requirements don't exactly translate into on-field success or I'd expect Texas to be nearer the bottom. However, having gone to Texas I know that the admissions standards are a LOT more stringent than one would expect from a public university.

Of course, this is an independent ranking from a regional newspaper, so who can really say what the true validity of it is?

First, I don't know how they get these numbers since the players SAT scores and GPA's in high school are not public knowledge. So all they can go on are partial qualifiers, non-qualifiers and qualifiers and the schools reputation. Yet UT doesn't graduate players, yet their admissions requirements are purported to be almost as hard as ours for athletes. I'm sorry but that's utter BS. Either that or UT knows some creative HS registrars.

It's embarrassing SMU is not a 10.

DanFreibergerForHeisman wrote:It's embarrassing SMU is not a 10.

are you saying it's embarrassing that we're an 8 and aren't better, or should be a 10 because of academics.

i would prefer we were a 5 and were winning games.

No what I think he's saying is that our football admission requirements are as tough as Rice right now (tougher than for the student body in general). Anyone who knows his butt from the sun ought to know that our athleteic admission requirements are absurdly difficult. I think we would all like to see us average a 5 and win some more football games.

western athletic conference is looking like a brain trust.

4 Hawaii
4 Nevada
3 Fresno State
2 Boise State
2 Idaho
2 San Jose State
2 Louisiana Tech
1 New Mexico State
1 Utah State

KnuckleStang wrote:western athletic conference is looking like a brain trust.


3 Fresno State
2 Boise State
2 San Jose State
1 New Mexico State
1 Utah State

They should rename it the State conference