Which College has the best athletics???

[Hokie Fan]

After watching my BC team lose a heartbreaker to Wisconsin in hockey I was thinking I was pretty lucky to have a top 15 football team top 10 basketball team and a solid hockey team..
Just wondering who you all think has the best athletics (please no fringe sports included)

Personally I would say Texas....

 

[tpaine07]

I have to agree with you, Texas has very solid baseball/football/basketball programs.

 

[gman2]

miami and southern cal have to be up there as well.

 

[Clem D]

Go to Google and type in Best Division 1 Athletics all sports.. and click Im feeling lucky.

It comes up with Alabama..

 

[Clem D]

Titles by school

UCLA: 97
Stanford: 91
Southern California: 84
Oklahoma State: 46
Arkansas: 42
LSU: 40
Texas: 38
Michigan: 32
North Carolina: 31
Penn State: 30

 

[Clem D]

Mens sports

Southern California: 73
UCLA: 69
Stanford: 57
Oklahoma State: 46
Arkansas: 42
Michigan: 30
Yale: 25
Indiana: 23
California: 22
Iowa: 21
UTEP: 21

Womens sports
Stanford: 34
UCLA: 28
LSU: 24
North Carolina: 22
Texas: 21
Georgia: 14
Maryland: 13
Southern California: 11
Old Dominion: 10
Arizona: 9
Florida: 9
Utah: 9


Coed sports

Denver: 18
Colorado: 15
West Virginia: 13
Utah: 10
Penn State: 9
Alaska Fairbanks *: 7
Vermont: 5
Notre Dame: 3
Tennessee Tech: 3
Columbia-Barnard: 2
Dartmouth: 2
Murray State: 2
Wyoming: 2

 

[Blackman]

IT's UCLA -- powerhouse or at least respectable in everything.

 

[Sun Tzu]

Right now if you are talking the "major sports" it is obviously Texas. But it depends on criteria you are using. Start throwing in gymnastics, volleyball, tennis, water polo, rowing, field hockey, soccer, wrestling, etc you are going to get very diverse results. Also if you are saying men only or both.

Stanford usually wins that all-around trophy, but that in part is because they have some of everything which helps alot.

 

[Hokie Fan]

I mean. pardon the way this sounds, "real" sports, Football, Basketball (Mens only) Baseball and Hockey (maybe not even hockey
Its gotta be on TV .. people have to care .. sorry gymnastics volleyball and wrestling.. womens sports....
I can see UCLA still like Texas... Michigan not so much now

 

[dawgball]

I think you would have to include Women's basketball and Gymnastics due to thier respective fan bases way before you include College Hockey.

I would think that the sports to include would be:

Men's
Basketball
Football
Baseball

Women's
Basketball
Gymnastics

Just my opinion, though.

 

[Franky Wright]

"When you say WisssssConSiiiinnnnnn, you've said it all!!----sung to the Budwieser song :SIB

 

[bjfinste]

I think you would have to include Women's basketball and Gymnastics due to thier respective fan bases way before you include College Hockey.

I would think that the sports to include would be:

Men's
Basketball
Football
Baseball

Women's
Basketball
Gymnastics

Just my opinion, though.

Hockey and baseball are both regional sports, but have wicked fan bases in their regions. My school didn't even have a baseball team, and college baseball games are never on TV here outside of the world series. I assume the same is true of hockey in the south.

At Wisconsin, football, men's basketball and hockey were the only three sports that produced revenue and bankrolled the rest of the athletic department.

I don't think women's bball generates money for more than a handful of schools, though (this is just a guess based on stuff I research and wrote from 99-02, though, so I'm far from certain about this).

 

[Hokie Fan]

Womens basketball generates money at 2 schools.. Uconn and Tenn (cant count it)
Cant include gymnastics cause then some one may clain water polo or volleyball (I know Georgia is awesome at it)

My top 5
Texas
Uclla
Florida
Wisconsin
BC

 

[The Big Tease]

Ohio State aint too shabby......Football, Mens and Womens basketball top 10 this year.......not horrible in hockey and decent in baseball

 

[IntenseOperator]

Northwestern

Graduate their players with DECENT life skills. No rapists or hard core criminals last I heard coming out of there.

The occasional fixed game by a player but I'd have to respect that.

 

[3 Seconds]

There is no doubt the best 'real' sports school currently is Texas.

How can you argue:

Current National Champions Mens Baseball

Current National Champions Mens Football

Elite 8 Men's Basketball Team

 

[Wilson]

How 'bout some respect for us Hillbillies..

#5 Football
Sweet 16 basketball
Elite 8 last year

 

[Another Steve]

Agree with Texas. Have a Good Golf History

 

[Blackman]

Since I played a Division 1 "fringe" sport, I counted them all into the mix but gave weight to the major sports and came up with UCLA. Texas would be real close second as well, only reason I went with the Bruins was because the Big 12 is a real joke in a lot of the non major sports, a lot of non revenue sports are not even offered, and when the Longhorns win a conference title in some sports it means they beat out about 5 schools. Can't go wrong with either program though.

Sun was right, Stanford is definitely in that top tier as well.

 

[DR STRANGELOVE]

michigan state