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Cincydawg

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Re: Rankings ... ugh
« Reply #462 on: June 19, 2023, 09:21:26 AM »


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« Reply #463 on: June 19, 2023, 09:37:13 AM »
Kind of interesting how many schools have "State" in their name, and how many are private.  The JMU in Virginia seems odd to me.  The New England schools are often a mystery to me.  USCe got the nod over Clemson.  Two are named for cities, maybe more than two?
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« Reply #464 on: June 19, 2023, 09:38:59 AM »
Several of the "State" schools were formally "A&M" schools.  Oklahoma State, New Mexico State, Utah State all come to mind, there are probably more.
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« Reply #465 on: June 19, 2023, 09:48:43 AM »
It's a varied moniker of course.  Georgia State is a large school in ATL that caters a lot to nonresidential students (though that has changed of late).  They now have a football team and play in the old Turner Field Statdium.  I think some like South Caroline and Alabama are HBCU types, while FSU and Miss State and NCSU are "normal" schools.

Is Texas A&M the only major A&M left?  

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« Reply #466 on: June 19, 2023, 10:55:57 AM »
Phil Steele has named seven Georgia players to his four-team Preseason All-American squad. Tight end Brock Bowers, center Sedrick Van Pran and linebacker Jamon Dumas-Johnson made the first team, safeties Javon Bullard and Malaki Starks made the second team, and offensive guard Tate Ratledge and defensive end Mykel Williams made the third team.

These are all good players, no doubt, but how often does anyone care to check back with preseason vs post season lists of this ilk?

Not very.
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« Reply #467 on: June 19, 2023, 12:22:09 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on June 19, 2023, 09:48:43 AM
Is Texas A&M the only major A&M left? 


Only one I know of, only one in FBS, but there could be some smaller schools that still have it.
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« Reply #468 on: June 19, 2023, 12:26:02 PM »
Tennessee State is also an HBCU.

Some other universities with State in the name were originally normal schools/teachers colleges. Minnesota, Illinois, and Arizona come to mind for those. 

Iowa, Washington, and the Dakota "state" college were pure agriculture research schools. 

North Carolina A&T (another HBCU) is the only other university that has an output like A&M.
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« Reply #469 on: June 19, 2023, 12:29:18 PM »
Kansas State was the large land-grant school in Kansas, don't know if they were ever an A&M though.
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« Reply #470 on: June 19, 2023, 01:44:00 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on June 19, 2023, 12:29:18 PM
Kansas State was the large land-grant school in Kansas, don't know if they were ever an A&M though.
MSU was known as the Agricultural State College of Michigan back in the day. The Michigan State College and finally MSU.
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« Reply #471 on: June 19, 2023, 01:59:29 PM »
There is no Georgia A&M except in fiction.  There is an Alabama A&M.
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« Reply #472 on: June 19, 2023, 02:03:46 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on June 19, 2023, 01:59:29 PM
There is no Georgia A&M except in fiction.  There is an Alabama A&M.
There was no Texas State when the movie "Necessary Roughness" was made in 1991.

There is, now.





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Re: Rankings ... ugh
« Reply #473 on: June 19, 2023, 05:42:35 PM »

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A ranking of "best hotdogs" would be among the most useless of that ilk I think.
Crowdsourcing rankings for food is among the best uses. Otherwise, you are deciding what to buy from the jingles you hear on television.
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« Reply #474 on: June 19, 2023, 07:26:57 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on June 19, 2023, 09:21:26 AM
[img width=499.997 height=319.997]https://i.imgur.com/iTxJt8L.png[/img]


Holy Cross over Boston College? 
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« Reply #475 on: June 19, 2023, 07:44:34 PM »




Not anything special the last couple of decades, but a very storied past.
15 HBCU National Championships, mostly when there was segregation.
Won the first I-AA National Championship in 1978.
HOF HC Jake Gaither went 204-36-4....better win% than Switzer or Osborne. 
Famous alums are Bob Hayes, Nate Newton, and Andre Dawson.
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