<p>Strong showing for Big Ten/CIC: Chicago #9, Michigan #18, Northwestern #22, Illinois #29, Wisconsin #30, Minnesota #46, Penn State #49, Ohio State #59, Purdue #62, Michigan State #83. #132 Indiana, #161 Iowa, and #251-275 Nebraska drag down the average a bit, but still, 10 schools in the top 83 globally isn’t bad.</p>
<p>The PAC-12 bifurcates high and low: #4 Stanford, #8 UC Berkeley, #12 UCLA, and #25 Washington are stellar, but from there it’s a big drop to #70 USC, #97 Colorado, #103 Arizona, #143 Utah, #146 Arizona State, #301-350 Oregon State, #301-350 Washington State. Unless I’m missing it, Oregon appears not to be in the top 400.</p>
<p>The ACC didn’t fare well apart from #17 Duke and #28 Georgia Tech. Not so much trans-Atlantic love for #46 UNC Chapel Hill and #78 Pitt; even less for #90 Notre Dame, #112 UVA, #135 Boston College, #180 Wake Forest, #185 Miami, #276-300 Va Tech. And unless I’m missing something, schools like Syracuse, NC State, Clemson, and Florida State didn’t make the top 400. #108 Maryland leaves the ACC for the Big Ten next year, which will bring down both conferences’ average.</p>
<p>The SEC gets no love at all: #88 Vanderbilt, #128 Florida, #159 Texas A&M, #251-275 South Carolina, #276-300 Georgia, and #301-350 Missouri are the only SEC schools in the top 400 (unless I’m missing some). Absent are a majority of the conference: Alabama, Auburn, Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, Mississippi State, Arkansas, and LSU.</p>