1 Florida State 2:59.99
2 Texas A&M 3:00.91
3 Baylor 3:01.12
4 Florida 3:02.17
5 South Carolina 3:02.88
6 LSU 3:03.81
7 Southern California 3:04.18
8 Texas Tech 3:04.81
9 Mississippi State 3:05.25
Now compare this to the results of the 2007 World Championships final:
1 United States
(LaShawn Merritt; Angelo Taylor; Darold Williamson; Jeremy Wariner) USA 2:55.56 (WL)
2 Bahamas
(Avard Moncur; Michael Mathieu; Andrae Williams; Chris Brown) BAH 2:59.18 (SB)
3 Poland
(Marek Plawgo; Daniel Dabrowski; Marcin Marciniszyn; Kacper Kozlowski) POL 3:00.05 (SB)
4 Jamaica
(Michael Blackwood; Ricardo Chambers; Leford Green; Sanjay Ayre) JAM 3:00.76 .
5 Russia
(Maksim Dyldin; Vladislav Frolov; Konstantin Svechkar; Denis Alekseyev) RUS 3:01.62 .
6 Great Britain & N.I.
(Andrew Steele; Robert Tobin; Richard Buck; Martyn Rooney) GBR 3:02.94 .
7 Dominican Republic
(Felix Sánchez; Yoel Tapia; Carlos Santa; Arismendy Peguero) DOM 3:03.56 .
8 Germany
(Ingo Schultz; Simon Kirch; Kamghe Gaba; Bastian Swillims) GER 3:07.40
The average of the 7 Best US college teams in 2009 is 0.62s slower than the average of the 2nd to 8th fastest national teams in the world in 2007!