see my post 268......i'll be sure you didn't mean "me" when you said ignoramisus since i've studied the top university rankings pretty seriously.....compared to everywhere else almost all the major universities in Calif are ranked higher than any of those in most other conferences...in fact i may be wrong on this but besides the Pac 10, I don't think there are any "football" universities in the top 25..in fact the highest rated Big 12 school is UT ranked in a tie for 46th........hell even UC Irvine and UC Santa Barabara are higher than that
I didn't read your post 268 until after I wrote my remark and I didn't mean to include you in the class of ignoramuses. I wouldn't take seriously any ranking that puts Texas below UCSB, however. How many Nobel Prize winners are on the faculty at UCSB?