re: How would you rank the SEC schools considering academics as well as athletics?

If the criteria is academics and athletics, I take it to include not just Tier 1 rankings, Top 10,20 or 50 national academic program or curriculum rankings, research $ and rankings, etc. but ALSO:
Academic performance and graduation rates of all student athletes (ALL sports), student-athlete facilities, and of course, athletic success in all sports (football, baseball, basketball, track & field, volleyball, softball, gymnastics, golf, tennis, soccer, swimming, W BB, lacrosse, etc.)

And within how long? The last year? last three years? Five years?


1. Florida (FB, BB, Base, SB, Gym, T&F, etc.)
2. Texas A&M (FB, BB, Base, T&F, SB, etc.)
3. Louisiana State(FB, Base, Gym, SB, T&F, Soc,Golf)
3T. Georgia (FB, SB, Gym., Golf, Tennis, etc.)
5. Alabama (FB, SB, Gym, Golf)
6. Tennessee (FB, SB, T&F, W BB, etc.)
7. Arkansas (FB, BB, BB, T&F, etc.)
8. South Carolina
9. Ole Miss
10.Auburn
11.Kentucky
12.Vandy
13.Mizzou
14.MSU

Well according to US News Vandy is a Top 15 University and no other SEC school even got in the top 50 except you beloved gators. They were 47. Just saying. You should elaborate. Are schools punished for not participating in certain sports? If that is the case then the big schools are all at the top and the small schools are all at the bottom. Is it excellence in the one's they do participate in? Are some sports more important than others. Are men's more important than women's sports?

Vanderbillt - Best Baseball
Vanderbilt - Best Women's tennis
Vanderbilt - Best Bowling

National Top 20 in Women's and Men's golf
National Top 20 in Women's Cross Country

Basketball has Top 20 talent, Top 100 performence













They are able to field a football team......

Ole Miss doesn't even have teams in half the sports.

Not a bad way to do it for a specific year.

It always amazes me about the details that can be brought up to make these lists even more challenging.

Hell yeah. Good job.

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Vanderbilt - Best Women's tennis

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UF has far and away the top women's tennis program in the conference. 28 regular season titles to Vandy's 0, not to mention 6 national championships. They are ranked higher this year, but that is very much atypical.

I wouldn't because who gives a frick?

Stop lying

It was general, not addressed to MSU.You guys are in the same boat as us.

They were ranked higher last year. I'm not saying they have a historically better program, I just state that they have really good sports teams these days.