09-23-2021, 01:37 AM
(09-22-2021, 08:10 PM)chrisk Wrote: The just released Ranking of US Colleges by WSJ shows the following Power 5 schools in the Top 50
2 Stanford
5 Duke
9 Northwestern
15 Vanderbilt
19 USC
24 Michigan (the highest public university)
27 University of California, Los Angeles
28 Notre Dame
33 UNC
36 University of California, Berkeley
45 Illinois
45 Washington
48 Purdue
49 Miami
5 0f these 14 are in the Pac-12, 4 in the Big 10, and 3 in the ACC
Alabama and Texas Tech are in the catchall 401-500 category
Sticking with the WSJ/THE College Rankings, I like seeing where schools that aren't P5 but are still in Division I are ranked.
1 Harvard
4 Yale
6 Brown
8 Princeton
11 Cornell
12 Penn
13 Dartmouth
16 Columbia
18 Rice (the highest non-P5, non-Ivy in Division I)
32 Georgetown
40 UC Davis (the highest public non-FBS Division I)
42 Boston University
43 UC San Diego
47 United States Military Academy
50 Barnard College (because they compete athletically in consortium with Columbia)
52 Colgate (hey, we're playing them in football next year)
61 Lehigh
63 University of Richmond
66 Davidson
72 GWU
74 Santa Clara
75 United States Naval Academy
76 UC Santa Barbara
77 Lafayette
78 William & Mary (hey, we were supposed to play them in football last year)
81 Bucknell
86 Northeastern (which is apparently acquiring Mills College in Oakland)
87 UC Irvine
90 Loyola Marymount
91 UIC
94 SMU
96 Pacific
It would have been nice for the UC regents to encourage development of football programs half a century ago on more of their campuses so that our best conference expansion options today were not in the catchall 401-500 category.