Maybe we can work out a trade.
The Ivy League will get the most intellectual school in the country–the University of Chicago–which is currently an orphan, and the Big 10 will allow Cornell University, ag school and all, to come home to Momma.
Even back then (early 80s), some chose Cornell over Harvard. For example, there was a very smart and musically talented girl in my high school who got into Harvard, but I bumped into her at Cornell. I was so surprised to see her there because I thought she went to Harvard and asked her why she is attending Cornell, and she said she liked the campus better. I was thinking inside “Is she crazy?” That’s because most students attending Cornell got rejected from Harvard.
Do you think?
@Publisher maybe back to the Big10 for UChicago
“In 1892, the University of Chicago started its football program. The Maroons ended their inaugural season with a record of 7-4-2. They would go on to win two national championships and seven Big 10 championships.”
And of course, they will tell you to this day they are 5-0 against Notre Dame.
And the University of Chicago did not lose a single football game from 1940 until 1963 ! Plus, the U. Chicago football uniforms are very classy.
Northwestern University is also undefeated against Notre Dame, but that might change in the next month or so.
Although Cornell University is better suited for the Big 10 then for the Ivy League in my opinion, the Big 10 probably would not be interested as the apple of its eye remains Notre Dame & big TV markets.
@CU123 I think that’s 4-0, the only 4 games they played, in the 1800s. Interesting, I had not known that.
@Publisher Surely you jest. Notre Dame leads the series 37–9–2 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwestern%E2%80%93Notre_Dame_football_rivalry
Right. Undefeated last two games. 2-0. But, I do not think that this minor win streak will survive for long.
Ivy League isn’t entirely about football…
In the 1980s a person could attend Columbia or Smith and experience the same number of men’s football wins.
@waitingmomla my bad, I stand corrected.
Ivy League isn’t about football or basketball at all, they have zero chance of winning a national championship in either (modern era). Stanford has a chance in both and of course Duke already has a few in basketball.
@waitingmomia: Please stop messing up my fantasies with your facts ! 
The Ivy name really came out the big time football played by the big three, especially Yale, back in the day. Yale was the Bama of its day.
Later on, Yale’s football success and spectacular corruption were surpassed by Chicago’s Monsters of the Midway.
The level of corruption in those pre-NCAA pre-NFL days makes today’s big time football look squeaky clean by comparison.
Brown kid won JEOPARDY COLLEGE championship.
re#44, "As a Cornell alum, all that mattered was the ECAC rankings ; ) "
@momofsenior1, they won’t get that, so to fill in the blanks:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECAC_Hockey
In recent years Cornell has been playing an annual Thanksgiving game at Madison Square Garden, and they have sold out the Garden. Several times they played BU, who was probably the main arch-rival when I (and many other alums who attended those Thanksgiving games) attended.
The Ivy League was established for sports, but since they are not good at sports not that many people actually care about them. On our campus, when I attended, the only sport people cared about was hockey. Which was ECAC (which included the ivies but many other schools too). And to a much lesser extent lacrosse, which likewise involved a lot of non-Ivy league participants (eg UVA, Johns Hopkins,…).
@monydad When I was at Cornell, it was all about beating Coach Cleary at Harvard. There were some awful (read amazing) anti Cleary chants when I was a student. We had a number of players recruited to the NHL. RPI/Clarkson/St Lawrence/UVM were also really good at the time. We used to road trip to Boston yearly
As far as football, the famous quote from my years there was the announcer saying “______ up the middle!” Dramatic pause. “No gain.” We still went to games but they were nothing like the hockey experience at Lynah Rink.
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