If you’ve never heard of the Wall Street Journal’s College Football Grid of Shame, don’t worry I hadn’t either until I saw an egregious screenshot of the grid itself. And this isn’t me just being an Iowa football homer, but this grid is a flat out sham. I’m honestly embarrassed for the Wall Street Journal.
Let me break it down for you. Basically, this is a grid that puts teams in a quadrant that judges teams from Weakling to Powerhouse (presumably by program dominance) and from Admirable to Embarrassing (based on arrests, bad publicity, etc).
The Iowa football team is placed loosely in the top left corner of the Powerhouse/Embarrassing quadrant, which honestly makes no sense, but what is absolutely ridiculous to me is where Nebraska is on this.