Quick, before they fix the error, look at this website. It belongs to WTAJ-TV, Channel 10, a television station in Altoona, Pennsylvania (Altoona is the nearest TV market to State College, by the way). This is how the top story reads as of 4:15 PM, August 22, 2003.

PENN STATE IS NUMBER 5 – BUT NOT IN FOOTBALL

The University of Pennsylvania is in a four-way tie for fifth place in the U-S News and World Report annual ranking of “America’s Best Colleges” released today. Princeton tops the list for the fourth consecutive year — this time sharing the top spot with Harvard, which was second last year. Yale is third and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology fourth. Penn State shares the fifth spot with the Cal Tech, Duke and Stanford.

Apparently, some overzealous Nittany Lions at the station failed to recognize the difference between the Ivy League’s University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and the Big Ten’s Penn State in State College. Easy, Lion fan. You ain’t in Stanford’s league academically, at least not yet. Heck, you may not even be in Pitt’s league.

Hail to Penn… heck the Quakers may have a better football team than the Nittany Lions too.

UPDATE: WTAJ-TV has now fixed this error. But not before I print-screened it.