I was not being sarcastic. If you buy ranking metrics, UT Austin has a top 10 CS program [1]. We have some of the best Systems researchers in the country [2], a professor from our dept won the Turing Award in 2007 [3], and Bill Gates + Michael Dell just donated a new CS building for our campus [4].
[1] http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-gradu...
[2] http://www.cs.utexas.edu/lasr/
[3] http://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/emerson_1671460.cfm
[4] http://apps.cs.utexas.edu/goto_gdc/