When it comes to college chess, schools that aren’t known as intellectual powerhouses run circles around those that are. Wash Post:

It was still early in this week’s competition at the downtown Washington hotel, and already the pecking order was taking shape.
The squads from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County thumped Yale and Northwestern in the first round and Harvard in the second. The University of Texas at Dallas trounced Emory. Miami Dade College clobbered New York University.