Because they're working for Daddy, maybe?

Love the loyalty...but my guess is that Miami is considered a superior academic school in many publications.  Thus they can recruit students with higher scores....and get better jobs....  With that being said, Go Bobs

 Miami can't hold a candle to OHIO in graduate and professional programs.  Those rankings you speak of are based on UG programs.

The biggest reason is simple.  For all of Miami's b.s. about being just like a liberal arts college, it is an extremely vocational school.  Two-thirds of the students there major in business or education.  There are very, very few true liberal arts majors and most of those tend to be pre-law and pre-med.  I have never met a Miami alum who had been a true liberal arts major--because he loved it rather than because he thought it the best way to law or med school.  In contrast, I've known many Ohio (and OSU) students who major in physics or history solely due to their interest in it.

Everything on this board will eventually come around to someone bringing up OSU.