<p>for example:
duke
usc
university of notre dame
georgetown </p>
<p>is there any others???</p>
<p>Stanford is definitely number 1. They have an amazing football team and a decent basketball team. Northwestern has a good football team and a decent basketball team. Duke’s football team is atrocious but their basketball team is awesome. My top 5:</p>
<ol>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Northwestern</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Vanderbilt (good basketball team, bad football team)</li>
<li>Notre Dame (good in basketball and football)</li>
</ol>
<p>No consideration of state schools? Go Longhorns (UT-Austin) and Gtech</p>
<p>and UNC and UVA and Wisconsin-Madison and Michigan and the rest of the B10 schools.</p>
<p>Stanford, Duke, and Notre Dame</p>
<p>umm ucla???</p>
<p>Boston College has teams perennially ranked in the top 25: </p>
<p>men’s soccer; women’s soccer; field hockey; women’s hockey (currently #7); men’s hockey (currently #1 and defending national champion); strong men’s and women’s basketball; strong baseball; more than strong football; solid men’s and women’s tennis; solid fencing; coed and women’s sailing (both ranked # 1 and current holders of several national championships) – you can bet your splice on it!</p>
<p>Below is probably the full list:
Stamford<br>
Duke
ND
BC
Vandy
UCLA
UVA
Michigan
Northwestern
Cal</p>
<p>Honerable Mentions
Wisconsin, Minnesota, UNC, Wake, Purdue, USC</p>
<p>Note: Georgetown doesn’t have a D1 football program, otherwise they would be in the full list.</p>
<p>Don’t forget Williams. 40% of the student body are athletes.</p>
<ol>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Duke
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Everything else</li>
</ol>
<p>if you go by total number of NCAA championships the top three are Stanford, UCLA and USC.</p>
<p>Do you mean top Division 1? Or schools in which much of the student body participates in sports? S is at UNC with very good athletic Div 1 teams but much of the student body doesn’t participate. D is at Williams where most of the student body participates in sports.</p>
<p>Stanford, Notre Dame, Michigan, and Boston College for me.</p>
<p>San Diego State is also very underrated but has been doing better in all sports lately.</p>
<p>I think Duke is overrated due to their basketball program.</p>
<p>Starting with top 50 Directors’ Cup Sports Final Rankings for 2009-10</p>
<p>Overall Ranking/College Name/Directors Cup/USNWR/Average Ranking
1 Stanford 1 5 3
2 Duke 10 9 10
3 Virginia 3 25 14
4 UCLA 4 25 15
5 UC Berkeley 9 22 16
6 Princeton 32 2 17
7 USC 13 23 18
8 North Carolina 7 30 19
9 Notre Dame 27 19 23
10 Michigan 25 29 27
11 Florida 2 53 28
12 Penn State 11 47 29
13 Texas 15 45 30
14 Northwestern 50 12 31
15 Ohio State 8 56 32
16 Washington 24 41 33
17 Wisconsin 21 45 33
18 Texas A&M 6 63 35
19 Georgia 20 56 38
20 Georgia Tech 45 35 40
21 Minnesota 18 64 41
22 Illinois 35 47 41
23 Maryland 28 56 42
24 Alabama 23 79 51
25 Virginia Tech 38 69 54
26 Florida State 5 104 55
27 Baylor 31 79 55
28 Auburn 26 85 56
29 BYU 36 75 56
30 Clemson 48 64 56
31 Indiana 43 75 59
32 Michigan State 39 79 59
33 Tennessee 16 104 60
34 Nebraska 17 104 61
35 Oklahoma 12 111 62
36 Oregon 14 111 63
37 Iowa State 34 94 64
38 TCU 40 99 70
39 LSU 19 124 72
40 Missouri 49 94 72
41 Arizona 30 120 75
42 South Carolina 41 111 76
43 Kentucky 29 129 79
44 Arizona State 22 143 83
45 Oklahoma State 33 132 83
46 Arkansas 46 132 89
47 Texas Tech 44 159 102
48 West Virginia 37 176 107
49 Louisville 41 176 109
50 New Orleans 47 na na</p>
<p>Notre Dame is the best, hands down. Top 20 school with the best football program in the country, a top 10 basketball team, great hockey, lax, guys and girls soccer are both solid.</p>
<p>Post #8, lol! </p>
<p>There is a Stamford, but do you even know where it is?</p>
<p>Stanford, Duke, Notre Dame, Northwestern. LAC’s-Holy Cross, Colgate, Davidson.</p>
<p>Stamford ? LOL, gloworm, good catch! </p>
<p>What about UCONN, #27 USNWR’s #27 National Public University ?</p>
<p>I can’t believe the University of Florida hasn’t been mentioned yet. Let’s be honest, the football and basketball programs are really the only 2 sports that matter in college and Florida has had competitive teams in both sports as well as excellent academics.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t say Florida has “excellent academics” but I agree that football and basketball are the only two sports that matter in college.</p>
<p>HISTORICALLY GOOD FOOTBALL PROGRAMS
- Michigan
- Notre Dame</p>
<p>HISTORICALLY GOOD BASKETBALL PROGRAMS
- UCLA
- Duke</p>
<p>I limited my choice of schools to the USNWR Top 25 and excluded Stanford because it doesn’t historically have a renowned football program although the Cardinal has been playing great the last two years.</p>
<p>If we’re talking the best sports schools in general, I would give that honor to Florida, Texas, Wisconsin, UCLA and Ohio State.</p>