(08-11-2014 10:09 AM)Gray Avenger Wrote:  

(08-08-2014 12:59 PM)KnightLight Wrote:  

(06-10-2014 11:07 AM)PGPirate Wrote:  Right. I don't think born on date has as much to do with it as the date you joined a specific conference, b/c there are plenty of universities founded long ago that aren't in the club.


It would be neat to list the oldest colleges who have played at the highest classification (1937-1972 NCAA University Division (Major College), 1973-1977 NCAA Division I, 1978-20XX NCAA Division I-A), but aren't in a P5.

The only one I can think off hand is Tulane.

EDIT: And Rice......and Tulsa, Army, Navy, SMU. That seems to be it.

6 out of all the others...that's pretty telling.

If you list SMU, then you should also list Memphis (only one year difference). We became "Major College" in 1958, and spent a great portion of the following years as a "Southern Independent" along with Florida State, Tulane, Georgia Tech, Miami, Virginia Tech, etc., winning a decent share of games against them.

Memphis was College Division (Small College) for 1937-1959. SMU was University Division (Major College) since 1937.

(06-09-2014 08:32 AM)UConnFB Wrote:  They just joined the right country club at the right time. Life isn't fair, don't expect it to be. The University of Chicago has a standing invite to rejoin the B1G athletically whenever they choose to do so, not that they ever would.

I wish Tulane, as a founding member of the SEC (and holder of more SEC Football championships than 5 current members combined) got the same standing invite when we made the critical mistake of leaving the SEC.