UNDER THE DOME
Head coach Brian Kelly's plan to build a physically imposing defense at Notre Dame has begun to bear fruit with players such as sophomore defensive lineman and Peach State native Stephon Tuitt.
BY LOU SOMOGYI
Football Bowl Subdivi- sion (FBS) that annually have the top gradua- tion rates among their student-athletes or rank prominently in the U.S. News & World Report in- clude Boston College,
and Stanford was the first time two teams in both the Associated Press top 20 and U.S. News & World Report's "Top 20 For Top Universities" met on the gridiron. The schools from the
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Sound minds and physical play define Notre Dame, Stanford
A BLUEPRINT TO EMULATE
Duke, Northwestern, Vanderbilt and Wake For- est … plus Notre Dame and Stanford. Other than Notre
Dame, none has an elite football history. So while Notre Dame struggled from 1994-2011, it became less associated with the
USC's, Alabamas, Tex- ases and Ohio States, and more along the lines of a glorified Northwestern, Vanderbilt or even Stan- ford. "In today's football
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culture, you can't try to be Ivy League Sunday through Friday, and the
