{"id":2013,"date":"2012-07-12T12:47:39","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T17:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=2013"},"modified":"2012-07-13T00:38:52","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T05:38:52","slug":"help-help-im-being-repressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/07\/help-help-im-being-repressed\/","title":{"rendered":"Help! Help! I&#8217;m being repressed!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stewart Mandel <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2012\/writers\/stewart_mandel\/07\/11\/kings-barons-knights-peasants-mailbag\/index.html?eref=sihp&amp;sct=hp_t11_a0\">revisits his medieval college football pecking order<\/a> and&#8230;well, duh.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Peasants:<\/strong> Arizona, Baylor, Cincinnati, Connecticut, Duke, Minnesota, Indiana, Iowa State, Kansas, Kentucky,\u00a0Louisville, Mississippi State, North Carolina, Northwestern, Rutgers,\u00a0Temple, USF, Wake Forest, Washington State and Vanderbilt.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s noticeable at the bottom of the football pecking order is how many good basketball schools there are. And by good, I mean bluest of the blue-bloods. Let&#8217;s eliminate those who have won men&#8217;s basketball championships (sorry, Baylor) and the two with very old football championships (Minnesota and yes, even mid-19th-century Rutgers).<\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s left? Baylor, Iowa State, Mississippi State, Northwestern, Temple, USF, Wake Forest, Washington State, Vanderbilt. <del>Five<\/del> Four small private universities, one that didn&#8217;t play in Division I-A until the 21st century, one whose football team was so bad it got <a href=\"http:\/\/thequad.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/05\/16\/the-quad-countdown-no-105-temple\/\">kicked out of the <em>Big East<\/em><\/a>, and the three poorest Little Brothers in the country. We should get together and sing\u00a0&#8220;Always Look on the Bright Side of Life&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>EDIT: Temple is in that nebulous not-private-but-not-quite-public category that Penn State is in. So I swapped in a note about Temple&#8217;s unique awfulness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stewart Mandel revisits his medieval college football pecking order and&#8230;well, duh. Peasants: Arizona, Baylor, Cincinnati, Connecticut, Duke, Minnesota, Indiana, Iowa State, Kansas, Kentucky,\u00a0Louisville, Mississippi State, North Carolina, Northwestern, Rutgers,\u00a0Temple, USF, Wake Forest, Washington State and Vanderbilt. What&#8217;s noticeable at the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/07\/help-help-im-being-repressed\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2013"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2015,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013\/revisions\/2015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}