The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology ranked 17th and the Indian School of Business 20th both were unranked in 2007.It is the first time that schools from the region have had such an impact on such an important international ranking.
This was the rare season in which Notre Dame was underrated: it is now the first team to go from being unranked in the preseason polls to earning a spot in the title game.
And the game could provide Notre Dame with its first national championship since 1988, in a year in which it began the season unranked in the Associated Press poll.
Loyola became only the second team in history to go from being unranked to No. 1 in the nation.
Yet Erickson's effort to try to focus the narrative on Penn State's academic mission will be a challenge at a university where, to many students and alumni, the team's standing in the Associated Press football poll (unranked) often seems akin to its spot in the rankings of national universities in U.S. News & World Report (tied for 45th).
Notre Dame has never been to a Big East tournament final, but even though it was unranked to start the season, this might be Brey's best team in his 11 seasons as coach.
The Longhorns, unranked at the start of the season, finished 28-8.
Baker kept producing, and Bell ran for 56 yards the rest of the season, which the Spartans ended ranked No. 14 after being unranked in the preseason.
Federer, ranked No. 3 in singles, is currently unranked in doubles but won eight ATP doubles titles in the early years of his career.
The incident was an embarrassment for the Bearcats, then unranked, but one the team managed to eventually use to its benefit.
A team that was unanimously ranked first in the preseason poll will be ranked one to two positions higher in the final B.C.S. standings than a team that had been unranked, even if both had the same computer ranking.
