Even with Maryland dragging it down, the Big 10
Your information's out of date, Grumps; you must have lived in the Mid-Atlantic sometime before about 10 years ago. (Insert caveats here), Maryland (#62) is between The Ohio State (#54) and Iowa (#71) in USNWR rankings, just to pick a couple of random Big Ten schools. Nebraska (#99) is the lowest I could find in the Big Ten... the other Big Ten schools were so skeptical of its prospects that it almost wasn't invited to aforementioned CIC:
Probably not out of date, my friend, but like most things you relate to someting personal in your life when you can. I don't have much nice to say about those in College Park, except you and Xahar are probably the two smartest there, so that's something good.