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Nice video. I'll add when their TV announcer Kekaula(rip) called Fresno the armpit of California as he was signing off air in 2014 and then apologized for it.

Someone I know has been going to this game yearly for the past 50 years or so, not missing a game in that whole time period.

at every turn of this video - you did exactly what I would've liked you to. I thought, "maybe he should use us-news rankings to determine academics" and you did, I thought, "maybe he should compare the records of the teams as well" and bang there it was. Great video

Now I wonder how football impacts academics like does the press that comes from sports promotes people to apply

Nicely done. Suggest more acknowledgement that when their stadiums opened in 1920s, they were among the largest in the nation. Interesting that local media at the time reported crowd of 98,000 at Berkeley. Would like to know this historian's take on largest crowd at Stanford. I don't see an official recognition on the Stanford website. I recall that 91,000 some was reported in 1970 for game v. USC. I do join others in criticism that narrator uses "san Francisco" as a reference to both schools...could not "the Bay" or "Bay area" suffice? But great job.

How does Kansas rank higher than national champs? Like Vince Young’s Texas? Cmon buddy Go Gators btw. But cmon.

As a lifelong Cal Bears fan, it is my professional opinion that we just suck at football

Great video dude, can gou share where to get the stats

The 2001 Miami Hurricanes. Now let’s find out if your formula is accurate.

Please add Andrew Luck to the thumbnail. Thank you.

It’d cost a lot to bring it back. If you bring back football you have to start other sports as well. Have to have a woman’s sport start up to be title IX compliant and the stadium I imagine is fairly run down. Used to go there every year for band competitions but football was still going on then. I’d love to see WSU have football. Always will love my Jayhawks but living in Hutchinson means I could take a quick drive and go watch them play

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Jesus Christ man, please read me the phonebook

i feel like if they somehow had the main character also see a painting of pyramid head like in the historical society the way james did, it would feel a little less shoehorned in, but it seems like konami just thinks silent hill must have pyramid head no matter what. they could've at least picked a character that would make some sense to transcend other people's perception of the town, like valtiel or the incubus or something, but unfortunately konami doesn't care about making good interesting games. they care about money, and they think pyramid head equals money

Im enrolled for my freshman year at WSU for Aug 2024, and I love my home city I just wish we still had football 🥲🏈

1995 Nebraska is the best. That “weak” Big 8 had 4 of the top 10 teams in the country (Nebraska beat the three others). Half the conference was in the top 10, how is that “weak”? Unlike 2022, Florida actually deserved to be in the title game, they were a great team… Nebraska was just insanely better than everyone else. TCU was a decent team that got lucky a lot, they had no business in the natty.

Notre dame enforces education. Student athlete with student first.

It is interesting to note that Cal and Stanford are the best in tons of other sports (water polo, rugby, etc), but sports that no one watches. So I wonder if the athletes for these sports know that there’s no money to be made in these sports so they aim to get a good education, or if there’s another factor that draws great athletes in other sports to these schools

If rankings changed all the time, you could take an average of academic rankings over those 50 years, rerank, then to this exercise to get a more accurate number.

Go Gators

I love this video idea!

I would argue it’s not about wins and losses- as you discovered -but it’s about *having a program*. Texas A&M hasn’t won anything, but their program has served as profitable and highly effective marketing for the school itself. Take the UC schools for example. Everyone knows about Cal and UCLA. But why do UCSD, UC Davis, UCSB, and UC Irvine struggle so much to gain a fraction of the name recognition? By most metrics, those are elite schools. They’re research powerhouses, their programs rank well, and they’re hard to get into. Why has no one outside of California heard of them?

The win % top 10 schools (especially private ones) seem to follow the performance of the economy. This makes sense to me because Stanford and Northwestern must have some reliance on wealthy alumni to maintain athletics so I would suggest splitting the scatter plot between public and private schools

GO GATORS

LOL...as if "Ever" began in 2000. Of course, no one played college football before then.

Schools like Michigan, Texas and UNC are elite academic institutions but are no more selective about admitting athletes than schools ranked much lower.

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They still hold the record for the most interceptions thrown in a year tho. 34 by John Eckman in 1966

Referring to either one of these colleges as being in San Francisco sounds so incredibly ridiculous.

You should make one of these for all the pac 12 rivalries like between usc and ucla, or Washington and Oregon

Including Cal and Stanford, but leaving out BYU, Houston, and SMU is wild. BYU was one of the top programs of the '80/.

i am a student athlete at cal and can confirm the lack of athletic passion in anyway is certainly influenced by the strive for academic excellence

Being a Cal fan is painful 😔

Sorry if you posted it I just do not see it where is part 2 love your stuff you got great content

Chad Schwenk, is the best name I've ever seen on a graphic.

Hawaii, the team that marred what would have been a perfect 1985 season for the Dogs. Ive loathed them ever since. But not as much as Boise who had absolutely owned us.

We got Kronk talking about grades and college football before GTA 6

As a Stanford fan, I will always look fondly on those Harbaugh/Shaw 2010s teams, and our domination of the Big Game during that time. Awesome video, and hopefully the Big Game can reach those same heights again!

Would be interesting to see it from a basketball side as some of the best programs are the best teams (UNC, UCLA, Duke) and some of the less academic ones (Kansas, Kentucky)

You have no need to watch The answer is very simple…if you are a top athlete who will attract others and make the university money…nope academics means…ZERO.

As a 60 year Army fan, I can say for absolutely yes. There are players at Boston College(tougher school than that other Catholic College somewhere in Indiana) that could not get into Army. Same for that other Catholic School,the Duke Wake, Vandy, Tulane,Northwestern, Cal Berkley, Michigan,Virginia,.These schools are good to great ones academically,BUT not Ivy ,Patriot League,or Academy level.AND West Point is the 2nd toughest academy to get into.U.S.Coast Guard Academy is #1.Look at the F.C.S. level,home to Ivy And patriot Leagues. And how their football teams stack up against the top F.C.S. teams Montana/Harvard. South Dakota State/Colgate. U.New Hampshire/Holy Cross. Who is the tougher nut academically? Navy/Maryland, Air Force/ Boise State, Army/Rutgers

As a lifelong Stanford fan, my father only missed one Big Game in 40 years. It was the day I was born.

Research/Academics keep the lights on at universities. No research/academics, no universities. No universities, no college football. Many people neglect to see the big picture.

I grew up near Wichita, went to Cessna Stadium a few times. Never put 2 and 2 together and realized they had a field and no team.

DubK reppin!!! WSU Football undefeated since 1987!!!!

Good video. However, when fans claim "academic standards are higher at XYZ school" they're referring to admission standards, not academic prestige. Michigan, for example, is notoriously difficult to transfer into for athletes because it often won't accept credits for low grades, high grades from low-quality colleged, or pointless classes from even good quality colleges. So, many transfers end up committing elsewhere.

To be fair some of the student athletes can’t even read at some of these schools.

I think another interesting metric to look at would be how many academic all-americans each team has produced.