Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of you seriously need to get a greater purpose in life than obsessing about college rankings.

It is the OP. The Wisconsin booster constantly wants to remind everyone how great Wisconsin was last century.

Public universities really were that great. The decline of public universities is the real story here.

Anonymous wrote:Some of you seriously need to get a greater purpose in life than obsessing about college rankings.

It is the OP. The Wisconsin booster constantly wants to remind everyone how great Wisconsin was last century.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The biggest change is Wisconsin. They really dropped off from their high ranking.

UVA has been declining in rankings as well. I wonder if it will end up following the same path.

UVA is directly next to University of Florida in the rankings. That day has already come.

These rankings are such garbage. Wisconsin was benefiting from all that AM Radio money and Columbia's endowment was funded by liberal insider trading profits all on margin (which wasn't illegal until like the late 1930s).

Now the 1910 rankings...those were legit.

Anonymous wrote:The biggest change is Wisconsin. They really dropped off from their high ranking.

UVA has been declining in rankings as well. I wonder if it will end up following the same path.

So.. if my kid goes to Wisco, can I tell everyone that he goes to a top 10 (loudly) and "in 1925" in my mind?

Some of you seriously need to get a greater purpose in life than obsessing about college rankings.

The biggest change is Stanford which is the hardest university to get into in this country.

The biggest change is Wisconsin. They really dropped off from their high ranking.

Anonymous wrote:Considering DCUM didn't exist in 1925 and people weren't obsessed with arbitrary magazine rankings like they are now, I doubt that Wisco or even UMich were actually considered more prestigious than schools like UPenn, Dartmouth, Duke, etc.

Duke was a non-entity back then. It didn't even change its name to Duke University until the year before this ranking. I’m also not sure who etc, refers to, but your USNWR bias is showing.

Anonymous wrote:Considering DCUM didn't exist in 1925 and people weren't obsessed with arbitrary magazine rankings like they are now, I doubt that Wisco or even UMich were actually considered more prestigious than schools like UPenn, Dartmouth, Duke, etc.

Certainly not Wisconsin! Wisconsin booster at it again. Living in the past.

Considering DCUM didn't exist in 1925 and people weren't obsessed with arbitrary magazine rankings like they are now, I doubt that Wisco or even UMich were actually considered more prestigious than schools like UPenn, Dartmouth, Duke, etc.

1925 College Football Rankings

1 Dartmouth
2 Colgate
3 Pitt
4 West Virginia
5 Syracuse
6 Princeton
7 Army
8 Pennsylvania
9 Cornell
10 Notre Dame

interesting. No Virginia. As technology evolved, MIT and others climbed. Missing from this list ivies Brown, Dartmouth, Upenn.

https://talk.collegeconfidential.com/t/the-best-universities-in-1910-and-1925/1311042

If the link does not work, the rundown is
Top 10 (1925)
1. Chicago
2. Harvard
3. Columbia
4. Yale
5. Wisconsin
6. Princeton
7. Johns Hopkins
8. Michigan
9. Berkeley
10. Cornell

The only difference is that the "Big 3" went from Harvard-Chicago-Columbia, to Harvard-Yale-Princeton. Furthermore, Berkeley eventually eclipsed Wisconsin and Michigan for the top public university spot, which was pretty inevitable given their faculty. Wisconsin is placed higher than say Cornell back then simply due to department strength and college administrators; Charles Van Hise ( Wisconsin's President just before this) is widely considered to be the most important public university president of all time.