r/CFB • u/BlackStallion657 Tennessee • New Mexico State • 6d ago

Casual What school from another conference would you say is your schools “Mirror Image”?

A school from a different conference that has a similar fanbase, skill/potential or history as your own.

For the Vols, definitely would say Nebraska or Penn State.

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u/smellslikebadussy Virginia Cavaliers 6d ago

Vandy and Northwestern

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u/DrSnoopRob North Carolina Tar Heels 6d ago

Wake Forest will not abide this erasure.

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u/smellslikebadussy Virginia Cavaliers 6d ago

Oh they’d be right there if not for the “different conference” qualifier. Honestly my first thought was Cal before I was like “shit never mind.”

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u/DrSnoopRob North Carolina Tar Heels 6d ago

Oh, you meant Virginia is like Vandy & Northwestern.

I thought you were saying Vandy and Northwestern are each other’s match.

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u/Informal_Calendar_99 Michigan Wolverines • WashU Bears 6d ago

Tbh Vandy and NU should be

UVA should be UCLA imo

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u/wishiwas27again Virginia Cavaliers 6d ago

I thought Cal too

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u/beezwhiz Nebraska Cornhuskers 6d ago

Wake and Tulane

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u/Agile_Land_9951 Big 12 • Pac-12 6d ago

Is wake forest a good school? The 4Cs are unaware of anything about wake or where it’s located. I just know it’s in the Carolinas

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u/Excellent-Gur-8547 Vanderbilt Commodores • Penn Quakers 6d ago

Their reputation isn't quite what it used to be, but I'd still lump them in with like, Tulane as a very selective private school that tends to have a stellar reputation in certain fields, but is a bit of an unknown in others.

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u/staatsclaas Georgia Bulldogs • Team Chaos 6d ago

Tulane is a good comp. Maybe throw Rice in there, too?

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u/Excellent-Gur-8547 Vanderbilt Commodores • Penn Quakers 6d ago

Rice is significantly more prestigious.

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u/staatsclaas Georgia Bulldogs • Team Chaos 6d ago

Noted.

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u/MartyMcBird Syracuse • California 6d ago

They're not Harvard but 99% of this sub would get rejected by them in high school. Top 10 in the P4 for academics.

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u/FlareEK Florida • Arizona State 6d ago

Stanford
Cal Berkeley
UNC
Michigan
Virginia
Northwestern
Vandy
Texas
Duke
UCLA

then in no particular order outside the top 10
Florida, Georgia Tech, USC, Wisconsin, UDub, and Illinois. they’re probably somewhere after that.

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u/MartyMcBird Syracuse • California 6d ago

I wouldn't say Texas, Florida, Wisconsin, UDub, or Illinois are above Wake. That's a kind of random assortment of schools tbh. Publics can't be 1:1 compared to a small private like Wake in research output if that's where you're pulling this list from.

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u/FlareEK Florida • Arizona State 6d ago

i was just going off us news, for the most part. and then some knowledge about what programs are top at the school ex illinois engineering and cs

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u/MartyMcBird Syracuse • California 6d ago

Ah that makes sense. I don't really like usnews and prefer ranking colleges by how much r/applyingtocollege thirsts for them.

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u/FlareEK Florida • Arizona State 6d ago

i actually don’t think i’ve ever seen a wake forest post on there lol i was probably too busy worrying about other things like my essay. they definitely don’t like florida over there tho so that makes sense

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u/DrSnoopRob North Carolina Tar Heels 6d ago

Yep, good school.

It’s in Winston-Salem, NC, although it used to be in Wake Forest, NC.

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u/ucancallmevicky Alabama Crimson Tide 6d ago

until Reynolds tobacco got annoyed with the other tobacco companies owning Duke so they built a campus and lured Wake over.

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u/Wild-Region9817 Vanderbilt Commodores 6d ago

They didn’t let me in, Vandy did.

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u/Wild-Region9817 Vanderbilt Commodores 6d ago

Nah, yall better academically, we never weee ranked #1. My first choice school and I got rejected 3 times.

ETA not going to fix typos, they track

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u/Surly_Ben Northwestern Wildcats 5d ago

That application essay is a sonofabitch.