U.S. News: You probably went to a safety school!

Quasi Non Football Thought:

U.S. News and World Report has its annual snootie, tootie ranking of best colleges. It's Harvard-Princeton-Yale for Nos. 1, 2 and 3. No surprise there, unless you're counting the shocking absence of Collin County Community College in Plano, Tx. My neatly-coiffed alma mater, Boston College, is ranked No. 34 despite costing nearly a base model C-Class per semester. Arch football rival Notre Dame is ranked No. 18. I haven't put quite the effort into sizing up the schools as U.S. News has, but the two seem pretty much the same to me. Clearly, though, the survey did not take into account "industrial podunkedness" versus "Boston" as far as quality of life goes. No offense to the great state of Indiana and to the good people of the Industrial Belt, but South Bend is to Boston what a box of raisins is to Sonoma.