Matches/safeties for physics (not engineering)

However, that is still different from a list of the “best colleges for a physics major”. The “best” (however defined) all-round colleges are not uniformly in the same rank for every major.

As you can see from Should I transfer out of WashU? , a student at one of the colleges in the ranking you promote (WUStL #16) is disappointed by the content of physics and math courses (compared to a college not ranked in that ranking) and posted wanting to transfer away for that reason.