There might not be a nationwide rush on Scarlet Knights gear, but for the month of July, anyway, Rutgers has been America's team.

In little more than a week's time, a pair of Rutgers' sporting alumni has captivated the country. First came Carli Lloyd, who led the women's national soccer team to a World Cup championship, its first since 1999. She scored three goals in the final, propelling the U.S. to a 5-2 win over Japan in what became the most-watched soccer game ever in the U.S.

Here's Rutgers showing its full support for Lloyd — who won the Golden Ball trophy as the World Cup's top performer — at the parade honoring the team last week in New York City.

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Lloyd was joined in nationwide admiration Monday night by fellow Rutgers product and fellow New Jersey native Todd Frazier. The Cincinnati Reds third baseman won the Home Run Derby with a sensational performance in front of his hometown fans. The atmosphere during all three Frazier at-bats was incredible, and coupled with a new format that revitalized the event, it was arguably the best Home Run Derby ever, drawing rave reviews across social media.

Rutgers was certainly part of that social-media presence, rooting on Frazier all night on Twitter.

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So, a year after joining the Big Ten Conference, have the Scarlet Knights established themselves as America's favorite college sports team? Not quite. But take a look at the accomplishments for a school whose addition to the league was initially laughed at as a pure money grab. Lloyd and Frazier aside — and of course their days in Piscataway came before the Knights made the switch to the Big Ten — Rutgers has impressed in its own way.

An 8-5 finish in football wasn't predicted by many. That first season in the conference included a win over Michigan, one of the Big Ten's traditional powers (even if last year was a down year), a record-setting comeback win over fellow newcomer Maryland and two non-conference wins over Power 5 opponents at NFL stadiums: a regular-season defeat of Washington State at Seattle's CenturyLink Field and a bowl win over North Carolina at Ford Field in Detroit.

And while Eddie Jordan has a long way to go to make his basketball program a competitive one in the uber-competitive Big Ten, you can't just brush aside a win over Wisconsin. The Knights' takedown of an albeit Frank Kaminsky-less Badgers team was perhaps the biggest win in program history, and Rutgers was the only team besides national champion Duke and highly ranked Maryland to hand Wisconsin a loss last season.

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So Rutgers isn't doing half bad. The school's first year in the Big Ten wrapped up on June 30, and since all that's happened is a pair of former Scarlet Knights turning into national sports superstars. Not only has the emergence of Lloyd and Frazier been great fun to watch, but it's helped wipe away the memory of the school's former most famous sports alum, the infamous Ray Rice, and produce plenty of positive attention for the school.

Way to go, Carli Loyd. Way to go, Todd Frazier. And way to go, Rutgers, the new America's team.