Stacked Up. Notre Dame among the best athletic/academic colleges
Some magazine called STACK has compiled a list of the Top 50 academic and athletic colleges in the country. Not surprisingly, Notre Dame is on the list, coming in at No. 13 on the Elite 50. The magazine also breaks down into individual sports, which we'll get to in a minute.
But first the Top 20 overall:
Team Total Points
1. North Carolina 350
2. Texas 345
3. Stanford 341
4. UCLA 311
5. Duke 284
6. Florida 261
7. Michigan 245
8. USC 204
9. Ohio State 182
10. Wisconsin 178
11. Virginia 158
12. Georgia 143
13. Notre Dame 137
14. California 135
15. Tennessee 132
16. LSU 102
17. Auburn 82
18. Illinois 79
19. Washington 78
20. Penn State 74
The Individual Sports:
Notre Dame had a crummy season in football, yet still managed to end up in the STACK rankings, which only lists the Top 15 overall. The Irish are 12th.
Football's Top 15:
1. USC; 2. Texas; 3. Florida; 4. Ohio State; 5. Auburn; 6. Wisconsin; 7. Michigan; 8. California; 9. LSU; 10. Georgia; 11. Louisville; 12. Notre Dame; 13. Virginia Tech; 14. Boston College; 15. Oklahoma.
The other sports:
Men's basketball: Not ranked
Women's basketball: Not ranked
Baseball: Not ranked
Men's soccer: Fourth (Duke is first)
Women's soccer: First
Men's swimming: Not ranked
Women's swimming: Not ranked
Hockey: Eighth (Boston College is first)
Men's Track and Field: Not ranked
Women's Track and Field: Not ranked
Volleyball: Not ranked
Softball: Not ranked
Men's lacrosse: Sixth (Virginia is first)
Men's tennis: Not ranked Eighth (UCLA is first)
Women's tennis: Fourth (Stanford is first)
Men's cross country: Fourth (Stanford is first)
Women's cross country: Sixth (Stanford is first)
Men's golf: Not ranked
Women's golf: Not ranked
-By Michael Rothstein of The Journal Gazette
Whoa, if they give all those sports equal weighting then it looks like our women's programs actually carried us this year in that ranking.
Posted by: fightingsonofnotredame | December 07, 2007 at 09:56 AM
OSU, Tennessee, LSU? Didn't realize football factories were academically sound. What does academics have to do with this list at all?
Posted by: Mike | December 07, 2007 at 11:58 AM
Florida and Auburn are academic stalwarts?
Thats a knee slapper!
Posted by: Southside Marty | December 07, 2007 at 01:57 PM
Can you post the graduation rates (especially football)rates next to these elite schools. Better if you multiplied each value by graduation rate, you would hear a lot of thuds hitting the bottom.
Posted by: William Smith | December 07, 2007 at 02:17 PM
Christ, look at those numbers!
Posted by: Michael Flaherty | December 07, 2007 at 04:10 PM
If Ohio State, Georgia and Florida are ranked ahead of ND on this list, then academics must've had little or no weighting.
Posted by: AlaskaDomer | December 07, 2007 at 07:07 PM
IS Michael "Scoop" Rothstein even allowed on Notre Dame's campus? This is the MORON who tried to sabotage the Irish Football season two years ago - contacting the NCAA after he saw Darius Walker doing a promo bump for the new Irish Sports Report TV program (what Pulitzer-caliber journalism; uncovering a would-be NCAA violation hidden in plain view). Ban this idiot from campus; with friends like him, who needs enemies?
Posted by: Michael Sweeney | December 07, 2007 at 08:17 PM