<p>Hmmmm. The intent of this thread appears to have been unclear. I like college football as much as anyone, but the idea was to see if by looking at college athletic conferences someone who is intrigued by one school might find others in the overlap group. And, as an additional exercise, I suggested raking the schools academically within their conference. This post was not meant to be about relative strengths of the athletic conferences. So, for the sake of argument, I’ll tackle the NESCAC:</p>
<ol>
<li>Williams College</li>
<li>Amherst College</li>
<li>Wesleyan University </li>
<li>Middlebury College</li>
<li>Tufts University</li>
<li>Bowdoin College</li>
<li>Hamilton College</li>
<li>Colby College</li>
<li>Bates College</li>
<li>Trinity College</li>
<li>Connecticut College</li>
</ol>