Rutgers brought television sets into the Big Ten's money stream, but it didn't bring an athletic team of note.
Actually, strike that. Rutgers athletic teams are noted... just not in the way they'd like.
From SI.com's ranking of every D-1 men's basketball team:
This is the point in the rankings where it's difficult to find nice things to say. SI forecasts that Rutgers (288) will be the worst team from a BCS conference by a huge margin: The Scarlet Knights are the only BCS-conference team outside our top 200, and we project them to go 1-17 in the Big Ten. Rutgers' projections are so bleak that we would still have them finishing last if they were in the CAA.
(For what it's worth, Ohio State is projected as the country's 28th team.)
The Knights begin their quest for the championship Nov. 13 vs. Rutgers–Newark.
Source: @KJfromTheDeck
