College Cricket Universities excel in College Football !
There are many things a University can do to try to get a top Football program: hire a great coach, recruit great players like Tim Tebow or Cam Newton, spend millions on facilities etc, or it could simply get a cricket team ! Yes, colleges that are members of American College Cricket generally did better than colleges without cricket teams this year in football.
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American College Cricket schools won 159 games and only lost 94. 16 of our colleges had a winning season, only 4 had losing records and 1 had a 6-6 record.
Think its a mere coincidence that the # 2 ranked College Cricket team in the country, Auburn is # 1 in College Football ? The Auburn Tigers would have been playing another cricket powerhouse, Ohio State University for the BCS National Championship, had the OSU Buckeyes hadn’t lost their 1 game to the Wisconson Badgers !
Michigan State Spartans sole loss was to another American College Cricket school, the Iowa Hawkeyes, whilst the Unniversity of Pennsylvania was tops in the Ivy League, losing only 1 game.
In fact so many Big 10 schools have cricket clubs, that our Big 10 colleges have been playing each other & winning & losing to each other in football all season !
The cricket team at UCF was just started, but it has already given the school’s fooball a big boost, the UCF Knights football team started to make a name for itself, finishing with a 10-3 record.
ACC
UMiami 7-5 Sun Bowl vs Notre Dame
UMiami 7-5 Sun Bowl vs Notre Dame
NCSU 8-4 Champs Sport Bowl vs WVa
VT 11-2 Discover Orange Bowl vs Stamford, lost first 2 then ran the table
Big 12
Texas A & M 9-2 At & T Cotton Bowl vs LSU
Texas Tech 7-5 Ticketcity Bowl vs Northwestern
Big East
Rutgers 4-8 lost last 6
USF 7-5 Meineke Car Care Bowl vs Clemson
Big 10
Indiana 5-7 won last game of season vs Purdue
Iowa 7-5 Insight Bowl vs Missouri
Michigan State11-1 Capital One Bowl vs Alabama.Lone loss wasto Iowa
Minnesota 3-9 won last 2, including vs Iowa
Ohio State 11-1 All State Sugar Bowl vs Arkansas.
Penn State 7-5 Outback Bowl vs Gators
Purdue 4-8 lost last game to Indiana, lost 49-0 to Ohio State
Pac 10
USC 8-5 won final game vs UCLA
SEC
Auburn 13-0 BCS National Championship Game vs Oregon Ducks. Auburn ranked #1 in football,# 2 in cricket.
UF 7-5 Outback Bowl vs Penn State
IVY
UPenn 9-1
Conference USA
Houston 5-7
UCF 10-3 Autozone Liberty Bowl vs Georgia
Sunbelt
FIU 6-6 Little Ceasars Bowl
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At Boston University, the football program was surprisingly abandoned in 1993, but now, perhaps inspired by the Boston University Cricket Club, the “Boston Terriers” have revived football (unofficially) at BU & compete at the Club sport level (like cricket).
So College Administrators,to paraphrase President John F Kennedy: ask not what cricket can do for you, but what you can do for cricket – give your cricket club a cricket field & some funding to compete in the national Championship -the American College Cricket Spring Break Championship !
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So the University of Florida and University of Miami are without coaches ? Don’t worry, Both the Gators and the Hurricanes now have cricket clubs so their football teams will be fine.
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The empirical evidence is clear : Colleges with cricket clubs have winning football teams !
Texas Tech Cheerleaders5 UC Davis Aggies football players,Cameron Sentence,Tight End,2nd from left, former cricket player
UC Davis Cricket Captain Shiva Vashishat & UC Davis Football Tight End Cameron Sentence.
Shiva captained the USA at the World Cup (at the Under 19 level) and is in the process of starting a team at UC Davis.
Ian Carlin,College of Wooster Wicket-Keeper/Batsman & former Running Back
14 Dec 2010, 1:54 pm
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