Word: nebraska
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...strength of schedule factor that forced No. 2 Virginia Tech to sweat through the end of the year in 1999, as it enabled No. 3 Nebraska to get within striking distance. Although the Hokies schedule was significantly weaker than the Cornhuskers, most polls and computer rankings still placed Virginia Tech far ahead of the Nebraska due to the dominance that the Hokies demonstrated on the field every week. But the overemphasis on strength of schedule in the BCS allowed the Cornhuskers to get closer to the No. 2 spot than they ever should have been...
...certain some BCS-lovers believe that the polls and the computer rankings underemphasize strength of schedule, that the BCS rankings are merely the righteous compensation, and that anyone who disagrees suffers from some anti-Nebraska or anti-UCLA bias. Even if this opinion is remotely accurate, none of these followers can possibly justify the inherently flawed way that the strength of schedule rankings are calculated...
Harvard-who opened with a 3-0 loss to No. 10 Texas A&M-and Dartmouth-who fell to No. 3 Nebraska 2-0 earlier in the season - are the only Ivy schools who have played overtly ambitious non-conference schedules thus...
...they are suspected of questionable or dangerous practices. Indeed, Krueger is actually the second student this decade to die at a Phi Gamma Delta party: In 1993, over-intoxication caused Jeff Knoll to fall three stories to his death at a party thrown by the fraternity's University of Nebraska-Lincoln chapter. In July, after Krueger's death, Phi Gamma Delta imposed upon itself an alcohol free resolution; MIT should have intervened much earlier...
...hunting and fishing but never far from home in Downers Grove, Ill. Though he rarely travels more than a few miles from there, Bruce has amassed a baseball-cap collection featuring the insignias of 35 states. "I'll have every state west of the Mississippi after I get Kansas, Nebraska and Oregon. And I have friends going to those places to get them...