Big Ten in the US News rankings.

[Knight177lb]

So why is Alabama ranked 137?

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/university-of-alabama-1051

If you took football away, they would fall off the map.

 

[mdk02]

If you took football away, they would fall off the map.

A land grant flagship state university fall off the map?

 

[brgRC90]

This board is too obsessed with rankings.

 

[RUnTeX]

A land grant flagship state university fall off the map?

Auburn U is the designated land grant university for the state of Alabama, not U of Alabama, but the latter is not going anywhere regardless.

 

[Morrischiano2]

Auburn U is the designated land grant university for the state of Alabama, not U of Alabama, but the latter is not going anywhere regardless.

I went to Rutgers in 1990 because of extenuating circumstances. I never heard the term “land grant university” until I started reading this forum 30 years later. Apparently it is a Abraham Lincoln designation that is supposed to be relevant 160 years later.

 

[Knight177lb]

A land grant flagship state university fall off the map?

Yes. Applications would drop by 90%.