<p>Rank the 6 BCS conferences in order of the over-all academic prestige of its schools:</p>
<p>Pac-10
Big-10
ACC
SEC
Big East
Big-XII</p>
<p>Pac-10 (Stanford, Berkeley, UCLA, USC, U Wash.)
ACC (Duke, Virginia, North Carolina, Boston College)
Big-10 (Michigan, Northwestern)
Big-12 (Texas)
Big east (Syracuse)
Sec (c'mon)</p>
<p>PAC-10 (Stanford, Berkeley, USC, UCLA, Washington)
ACC - (Duke, Virginia, Boston College, UNC, Wake Forest, Georgia Tech)
Big-10 (Northwestern, Michigan, Purdue, Penn State)
Big East (Syracuse, Rutgers, Pittburgh, UConn)
Big XII (Texas, Baylor)
SEC (Vandy, yawn)</p>
<p>Lets rank all the conferences:</p>
<p>ACC
Big East
Big 10
Big XII
C-USA
MAC
MWC
PAC-10
SEC
Sunbelt
WAC
SNDC(Stuborn Notre Dame Conf.)</p>
<p>If we are talking academics, you should include Chicago in the Big 10 because Chicago is still a member of the CIC (CIC = Big 10 + Chicago). At any rate, the ACC, Big 10 and Pac 10 are all awesome academically.</p>
<h1>1) PAC-10 (Stanford, Berkeley, USC, UCLA, Washington)</h1>
<h1>2) ACC - (Duke, Virginia, Boston College, UNC, Wake Forest, Georgia Tech)</h1>
<h1>3) Big-10 (Northwestern, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Purdue, Penn State)</h1>
<p>-</p>
<h1>4) Norte Dame (itself)</h1>
<h2>-</h2>
<h1>5) Big East (Syracuse, Rutgers, Pittburgh, UConn)</h1>
<h1>6) C-USA (Rice, Tulane, SMU...)</h1>
<h1>7) SEC (Vandy, yawn...Flordia & Georgia somewhere in there)</h1>
<p>-</p>
<h1>8) Big XII (Texas, Baylor, next)</h1>
<h1>9) MWC (BYU, Utah, and Air Force!)</h1>
<h2>-</h2>
<h1>10) MAC (LOL, Miami(OH)!)</h1>
<h2>-</h2>
<p>-</p>
<h2>UNRkd) Sunbelt Conf. (bottom of the barrel)</h2>
<h2>-</h2>
<h2>-(!)-</h2>
<h1>$%&!) WAC (JV PAC 10)</h1>
<p>Alex, IC is the consortium, but in terms of football, Chicago bidded out and is now Div. III.</p>
<p>Except for football, Notre Dame, is part of the Big East.</p>
<p>Committtee on Institutional Cooperation.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.cic.uiuc.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://www.cic.uiuc.edu/</a></p>
<p>I took part in a CIC conference call where we provided advice to Chicago on dealing with the Justice Department on a discrimination matter.</p>
<ol>
<li>PAC-10 </li>
<li>ACC</li>
<li>Big-10 </li>
<li>Big East </li>
<li>Big XII </li>
<li>SEC</li>
</ol>
<p>PAC and ACC are top heavy with the lower half schools being only fair. Therefore Big10/11 rules for overall strength.</p>
<ol>
<li>Big 10 (Gotta show some Big Ten love..... Go 'Cats!) </li>
<li>Acc</li>
<li>Pac 10 (The 'Cats are gonna crush the Bruins in the Sun bowl next week!)</li>
</ol>
<p>Looking at average USNews rankings (taking into account FOOTBALL schools only; some conferences have additional schools for basketball and stuff like that).</p>
<p>The 3rd Tier schools mess up the averages, but I assume the conferences with more 3rd Tier schools have a lower overall average.</p>
<p>1.) ACC: 5, 23, 27, 27, 37, 40, 55, 55, 78, 78, 78, 109
Average: 51.0; Median: 47.5</p>
<p>2.) Big 10: 12, 25, 34, 42, 48, 60, 60, 60, 74, 74, 74
Average: 51.2; Median: 60</p>
<p>3.) PAC 10: 5, 20, 25, 30, 45, 97, 115, 120 (2 UR/Third Tier)
Average: 57 + 2 Third Tier</p>
<p>4.) Big 12: 52, 60, 78, 78, 85, 97, 97, 109, 109 (3 UR/Third Tier)
Average: 85 + 3 Third Tier</p>
<p>5.) Big East: 50, 58, 60, 68 (4 UR/Third Tier)
Average: 59 + 4 Third Tier</p>
<p>6.) SEC: 18, 58, 50, 85, 85, 104, 109, 120 (4 UR/Third Tier)
Average: 79 + 4 Third Tier</p>
<p>
[quote]
- Big 10 (Gotta show some Big Ten love..... Go 'Cats!)
- Acc
- Pac 10 (The 'Cats are gonna crush the Bruins in the Sun bowl next week!)
[/quote]
</p>
<p>Of all the bowl teams this year, Northwestern has had the highest graduation rate at around 82%. I am pretty sure the players have the highest average SAT also. Go Cats!</p>
<p>Throw in Notre Dame and Georgetown, and the basketball Big East is pretty strong...</p>
<p>Throw in the Patriot Conference for Basketball along with the Ivy League, and the the Big East is zonked.</p>
<p>But, Cre8tive1, the Big East is not zonked when they play basketball vs. teams in the Patriot and Ivy Leagues. The Big East is rather strong in Basketball performance.</p>
<p>311, we're talking about academic strength, the Ivy League has all NCAA conferences beat, that was the point.</p>
<p>Ivy League is not a BCS conference.</p>
<p>GO BIG TEN.</p>
<p>Penn State Baby. That's my school... #48.</p>