Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Another Football Powerhouse

MIT:
This season counts as MIT’s football breakthrough. The Engineers are undefeated at 8-0. They won their first-ever New England Football Conference championship on Saturday. They also clinched a spot in the Division III playoffs. They would be favored to complete an undefeated regular season by beating the U.S. Coast Guard Academy on Saturday if betting on low-level college football were common.
To put MIT’s football achievement in terms that quantum physicists may understand: It’s like winning a Nobel Prize—only far more impressive.
MIT’s students, faculty and alumni won 80 Nobel Prizes between 1944 and 2013. In that time, MIT won a total of 80 football games, though it didn’t have a varsity team for decades. With all due respect to the school’s sailing and pistol teams, its only national champions in recent memory, MIT’s football team may be engineering the greatest athletic accomplishment in school history.
Good luck to the Engineers, but if they are unlucky enough to have to play Mount Union or Wisconsin-Whitewater, they're going to get trounced.  I'd stick with the science and engineering. 80 Nobel prizes?  Holy shit.  Also, speaking of Mount Union, they have a big game against undefeated John Carroll this weekend.  Go Blue Streaks, even though you might be in for a humbling.

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