<p>Conference SAT</p>
<p>Duke
Wake Forest
Georgetown
William & Mary
Vanderbilt
Stanford
Northwestern
Rice
Army
Navy </p>
<p>The winner plays a bowl game against the Ivy champion. A game Teddy Roosevelt would love.</p>
<p>The Ivy and Patriot League have a strong relationship.</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Ivy League</p></li>
<li><p>UAA and NESCAC, tie</p></li>
<li><p>Patriot League</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Colgate and Holy Cross have great athletic traditions-Div1 basketball, hockey, crew, football(1aa) and are only half the size of its Ivy rivals at 2800 students each.</p>
<p>FrankFurter: Answer to your question
University Athletic Association
U Chicago
WashU
Emory
Carnegie Mellon
Brandeis
NYU
U Rochester
Case Western</p>
<p>The Colonial Athletic Association plays Division I sports. Football is played at the Division I Football Championship Subdivision level (f/k/a I-AA): NORTHERN DIVISION:
Hofstra
Maine
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Northeastern
Rhode Island </p>
<p>SOUTHERN DIVISION:
Delaware
James Madison
Old Dominion (Program begins 2009)
Richmond
Towson
Villanova
William & Mary</p>
<p>this is a funny thread. I love the big ten</p>
<p>Northwestern
Michigan
Wisconsin
Illinois
Penn State
Minnesota
Indiana
Iowa
Purdue
Ohio State
Michigan State</p>
<p>fun conference + tons of good state school academics (+ northwestern)</p>
<p>We've had this discussion before. The rankings went like this</p>
<p>1) Big Ten
2) ACC
3) Pac-10
4) Big 12
5) SEC
6) Big East</p>
<p>And you're kidding yourself if you think that a non-FBS conference should be included in this discussion.</p>
<p>Move Penn State to the Big East so the Big Ten can retain its original name...otherwise it has to be renamed the Big Eleven.</p>
<p>Native NJ:
I'm with ya.</p>
<p>The Big Ten is definitely tops when it comes to combining major sports and academics. We have five schools in the top 50 for academics and our teams are always in the national title picture for football/basketball. Penn State is too good to be in the Big East. The Big East doesn't even deserve an automatic BCS bid, plus not one of the schools in the conference cracks the top 50 for academics (going by football, since there are about 25 teams that seem to play in the conference for basketball). The Big Ten is the standard for conferences.</p>
<p>I'm biased since I live in the midwest, so naturally I give a vote for the Big Ten, but the ACC and Patriot League get a vote also.</p>
<p>Hmmm, for the Patriot, Colgate would be on top, but it would be a statistical "dead heat" for the other schools (Bucknell, Lehigh, Lafayette, Holy Cross, plus Army and Navy). Fordham and Georgetown are in the league only for football....</p>
<p>And you're kidding yourself if you think that many NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) football players are there for the education. True student-athletes who attend class and graduate on time are more likely to be found in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) conferences: the Ivy League, the Patriot League and the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) or in the Division III University Athletic Association (UAA) and the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC).</p>
<p>Stanford and Duke do a good job with their football players with repect to graduation and job placement. The Ivies and schools like Holy Cross and Colgate graduate their players in 4 years and many pursue graduate school or IBanking jobs. HC and Colgate have played the Ivies for well over 100 years and like the Ivies do not award athletic scholarships.</p>
<p>Before painting D-1 players with a broad brush</p>
<p>Pressley</a> learned from struggling mother : Football : GoVolsXtra.com</p>
<p>SI.com</a> - Writers - Peter King: Old School - Tuesday April 17, 2007 10:10AM</p>
<p>
<p>1) Big Ten 2) ACC 3) Pac-10 4) Big 12 5) SEC 6) Big East
</p>
<p>Pac-10 is #2 by your Peer Assessment ranking.</p>
<p>I don't think anyone has quite grasped what the point of this thread is. It was inspired by the several dozen threads on CC that began something like this: </p>
<p>OP - "I really like Bowdoin College and my stats indicate that it is a slight reach. I'd like to go to a LAC in the northeast (maybe 2,000 undergrads +/-) that has a decent placement history for grads in Boston/NYC/Philly. I am also thinking that maybe I'd like to row competively again; I was on the crew team at my HS for 3 years but had to quit to go to work when my Mom got sick."</p>
<p>The following posts then go something like this: "If you like Bowdoin you should look at Oberlin." "Grinnell!!" "Reed is a great school about that size." "Have you thought about New College of Florida? Lots of water!"</p>
<p>What I was suggesting was that sometimes it is helpful if you find one school you really like to see what other colleges are members of the same athletic conference. Sometimes there is overlap (Chicago, Rochester, Emory, Wash U) and sometimes there is not.</p>
<p>I think I started this on the wrong path by including the word "ranking" in the OP. Or maybe I should have cleaned out the cat box instead of posting.</p>