That was a jab at the University of Oklahoma for falsifying their stats to rank higher in previous editions.

Here is the real top 10.

#1 Princeton
#2 Harvard
#3 Columbia
#4 MIT
#5 Yale
#6 Stanford
#7 U of Chicago
#8 Penn
#9 Northwestern
#10 Duke
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities