re: A Kentucky Sports Radio reporter writes about his trip to Mizzou for the game.

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AAU membership is limited to the top 62 public and private research universities. This is something AR can only dream about.

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Just to clarify, it is not limited to 62, it is just they have been booting some or letting others know they would be dropped. Nebraska got booted and Syracuse dropped before they got booted. 2 other schools in the recent past have also chosen to drop out before they got booted.

Schools in the "lucky sperm club" that were added in the first decade of the AAU (like Nebraska) should be suspect so Missouri, Kansas, Indiana, and Iowa State are in the "questionable" range while schools like Georgia are sitting well in that 55-65 range to replace them. Since 1990 this is who the AAU has added and you will note, only 1 of them plays college football at a competitive level.

2012 Boston University
2010 Georgia Institute of Technology
2001 Stony Brook University
2001 Texas A&M University
1996 University of California, Davis
1996 University of California, Irvine
1995 Emory University
1995 University of California, Santa Barbara

If Nebraska was at 80 and got booted then these schools should be most suspect
88 Missouri
100 Indiana

Below 80 and suspect
77 Kansas
74 Iowa State

While the Hogs are far away from membership, they have the money to keep gaining so they are more dynamic than static. As for current SEC schools, the next in would be Georgia, followed by Kentucky. However, based on the large number of non sports schools lately, still plenty of schools ahead of these two so not like I would hold my breath.