Can you name the FBS schools with names that don't reference a city or state.

[Charlemagne]

This was an AFLAC trivia question from yesterday. Can you name the FBS ( Div 1, the 119 big time football) universities that have a name that has nothing do to with the city or state in which they are located?

Viel Glück!

[a la izquierda]

1. I can think of one so far:

Rice University.

[fishwax]

2. Mostly the private ones, I suppose

Rice, Baylor, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, Duke, Wake Forest, and Notre Dame, and Brigham Young. (Stanford is in Stanford, California, but I think the town name came later and the name of the university itself doesn't reference the town, so perhaps that counts as well.) Does the Big East have a private school that I can't think of at the moment?

Also the military academies--Navy, Army, Air Force.

As for public schools, I can only think of Temple and Rutgers, offhand.

[taterguy]

3. Wake Forest was named for its original location Wake Forest

They moved away when they were lured by Camel cash.

[El Supremo]

4. Also SMU andTCU.

[madinmaryland]

6. "TEXAS" CHRISTIAN University??

Is there a state name in there??

[El Supremo]

8. They will be renaming it Tebow Christian University soon.

[fishwax]

7. well, one of those at least

;)

Ball State and Marshall are a couple more public schools that fit the bill.

[Charlemagne]

9. Dont forget

Miami. Another MAC school. Named for the native American tribe/river.

[bigwillq]

5. Hello.

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[Charlemagne]

11. thanks good to be here

[Charlemagne]

10. there is another:

on what type of road can you drive both ways?

[fishwax]

12. oh yeah ... forgot about them -- and yet one more that hasn't been mentioned

[enuegii]

13. Did anybody mention Clemson yet?

Though, technically. the town there is also called Clemson, but the university was named for Thomas Clemson, the son-in-law of two-time VP John Calhoun.

The city itself was known as Calhoun until 1943, when it was renamed Clemson.

[KamaAina]

14. Tulane

where I once took classes and playes classic NOLA music on WTUL!