Professor: Look out, here comes the ROCK!

Why are Slippery Rock University scores so important to football fans all over the nation. Is it because they have played in such prestigious places as Fenway Park or the Rose Bowl? Is it because they should have been # 1 in 1936 because they beat West Virginia Wesleyan, which beat Duquesne, which beat Pitt, which beat Notre Dame, which beat Northwestern, which beat Minnesota?