<p>good schools with good football and good basketball is the ideal school im looking for.</p>
<p>For Div 1 football and basketball, check out Pac-10, Big 10, ACC, SEC schools</p>
<p>If you want a breakout (to name a few):
Pac-10:
Cal
UCLA
USC
Stanford
Washington
Oregon
Arizona</p>
<p>Big 10:
Michigan- Ann Arbor
Ohio State
Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Penn State
Michigan State
Purdue
Indiana</p>
<p>ACC:
Duke
Virginia
Wake Forest
Georgia Tech
Virginia Tech
North Carolina</p>
<p>SEC:
Vanderbilt
Florida
Georgia</p>
<p>Some schools may have strong football and mediocre basketball, like USC. While others have weak football and strong basketball, like Indiana, Duke, and North Carolina (although this is not always the case...just currently).</p>
<p>Florida is the only school to hold National Championships in football and basketball the same year (2006).</p>
<p>What about BC?</p>
<p>UCB, ahhh who played football on New Year's for the third year in a row and is now ranked 8th in Bball and won about 26 games last year, and the year before and the year before etc.. UWisconsin is WAY better than most of those schools you mentioned. Come on. You should know better. Washington, Stanford mediocre football at best and Washington now stinks in basketball again too. Duke football?? UNC Football, UGA basketball they all stink. PSU basketball-stinks. Purdue and Indiana football--nearly stink. Michigan basketball--pathetic.</p>
<p>If you're looking for schools with high momentum right now, the top ten schools for football this year were:
-LSU
-Georgia
-USC
-Missouri
-Ohio State
-West Virginia
-Kansas
-Oklahoma
-Virginia Tech</p>
<p>Then rounding it out at numbr 10 is either Boston College or Texas, depending on whether you're looking at AP or USA Today rankings. </p>
<p>Of these, I'd say that USC, Boston College, Texas, Virginia Tech, and Georgia are all fairly prestigious. But you could get a solid education at any of them.</p>
<p>(Full list here: <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/polls;_ylt=AjPLWMMQoK_VfB.qNr_UGe4cvrYF%5B/url%5D">http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/polls;_ylt=AjPLWMMQoK_VfB.qNr_UGe4cvrYF</a> )</p>
<p>Penn State does not have a good basketball program. Check out Pitt though!</p>
<p>Also, if you're looking for a smaller environment with smaller class sizes, I would definitely recommend Wake Forest. It has the excitement and spirit of the larger schools, but with the benefit of size (if that's what you're looking for).</p>
<p>I think Holy Cross deserves a mention too.</p>
<p>Cal Cal Cal Cal Cal Cal Cal Cal Cal Cal Cal Cal Cal Cal</p>
<p>Notre Dame
University of Cincinnati
Miami (both Ohio (Competitive MAC Mid-Major Conference) and Florida)
University of Connecticut
Texas
Tennessee
Oklahoma
Kansas
Pittsburgh</p>
<p>^ ibtelling, while our football program is pretty good (except this year...don't remind me), our basketball program is in too difficult a conference.</p>
<p>UCLA has decent football and GREAT basketball.</p>
<p>Right barrons, I forgot UW-Madison...sorry.</p>
<p>I did qualify my suggestions with this statement:
"Some schools may have strong football and mediocre basketball, like USC. While others have weak football and strong basketball, like Indiana, Duke, and North Carolina (although this is not always the case...just currently)."</p>
<p>Boston College also has ice hockey!</p>
<p>Duke has a new football coach who may shake things up a bit! Cutcliff coached both Peyton and Eli Manning--and look what they've done in the last couple of years!</p>
<p>Duke is not Tenn and no Mannings are coming to Duke. The recruiting class is ranked 63rd just ahead of Toledo. That may be an improvement but they have a long way to go.</p>
<p>BC Hockey is very good. Wisconsin has had several tough games with them and right now BC is better but on average UW is also a top team.</p>
<p>I looked at the USNWR Top 50 ranked colleges and there are 34 colleges that play both Division I football and basketball. I got their Sagarin RPI rankings for the end of football 2007 and their current 2008 basketball rankings and added them together to determine which was the overall champion for these two sports. I also calculated the percentile rank for these schools vs all other schools nationally that play these two sports.</p>
<p>As one might expect for this elite universe of 34 universities, the major publics dominate the top of the rankings and hold the top 7 spots. They are followed by Stanford, Vanderbilt, and Wake Forest to round out the Top 10 (with Duke and Notre Dame at 11 and 12). Cornell was the best of the Ivy colleges (ranking 24th) and the other 7 Ivy colleges all ranked in the bottom 10. </p>
<p>Rank , Percentile Rank , Football RPI (242 teams ranked) , Basketball RPI (341 teams as of 2/4/08) , Total Combined RPI , College</p>
<p>1 , 95% , 4 , 24 , 28 , USC
2 , 95% , 12 , 16 , 28 , U Texas
3 , 93% , 33 , 5 , 38 , UCLA
4 , 93% , 10 , 33 , 43 , U Florida
5 , 92% , 36 , 8 , 44 , U Wisconsin
6 , 88% , 69 , 3 , 72 , U North Carolina
7 , 87% , 29 , 45 , 74 , UC Berkeley
8 , 86% , 70 , 9 , 79 , Stanford
9 , 83% , 54 , 43 , 97 , Vanderbilt
10 , 83% , 28 , 74 , 102 , Wake Forest
11 , 81% , 109 , 4 , 113 , Duke
12 , 81% , 90 , 23 , 113 , Notre Dame
13 , 79% , 30 , 90 , 120 , U Illinois UC
14 , 78% , 23 , 105 , 128 , Boston College
15 , 77% , 59 , 76 , 135 , Georgia Tech
16 , 77% , 55 , 82 , 137 , U Washington
17 , 76% , 41 , 99 , 140 , U Virginia
18 , 76% , 26 , 115 , 141 , Penn State
19 , 65% , 21 , 183 , 204 , U Michigan
20 , 59% , 199 , 38 , 237 , Davidson
21 , 59% , 232 , 6 , 238 , Georgetown
22 , 54% , 141 , 125 , 266 , Tulane
23 , 53% , 86 , 189 , 275 , Northwestern
24 , 48% , 190 , 114 , 304 , Cornell
25 , 48% , 140 , 165 , 305 , W & M
26 , 42% , 180 , 156 , 336 , Brown
27 , 39% , 121 , 234 , 355 , Yale
28 , 32% , 171 , 228 , 399 , Lehigh
29 , 30% , 132 , 277 , 409 , Harvard
30 , 22% , 152 , 300 , 452 , Rice
31 , 22% , 219 , 237 , 456 , Columbia
32 , 18% , 195 , 285 , 480 , Dartmouth
33 , 17% , 193 , 292 , 485 , Princeton
34 , 16% , 185 , 302 , 487 , U Penn</p>
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<p>Except for my goof in the comment on which college is leading the pack...USC is the lead dog and is a private university.</p>
<p>In the event that anyone wanted to add hockey or baseball into this equation, here are some relevant rankings for the USNWR Top 50 national universities:</p>
<p>College Hockey Online Poll (20 teams ranked)</p>
<p>2 U Michigan
8 Notre Dame
9 Boston College
11 U Wisconsin
19 Princeton</p>
<p>Baseball America Preseason Top 25</p>
<p>1 UCLA
3 Vanderbilt
5 U North Carolina
8 U Michigan
14 Rice
16 U Texas
17 U Virginia
22 Tulane</p>
<p>If only Cal had success in football like we do in rugby...:rolleyes:</p>
<p>23 National Championships since 1980.</p>
<p>Scores from so far this season:
99-5 over Humboldt State
82-15 over Stanford
84-3 over Santa Cruz
34-0 over Oregon
48-0 over USC
48-0 over Wazzu
59-0 over UCLA
52-3 over Chico State</p>
<p>Go BEARS!!!</p>
<p>For top academics and top athletics:</p>
<p>Duke University (Basketball)
Georgetown University (Basketball)
University of California-Los Angeles (Basketball)
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (Football)
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (Basketball)
University of Notre Dame (Football, back in the 70s and 80s, not so much since the mid 90s)
University Southern California (Football)
University of Texas-Austin (Football)</p>
<p>UCB, from what I've heard many teams just forfeit to us in Rugby =P</p>