Yahoo.com : 5 Year Ranking of P5 Athletic Depts

Notables and SEC schools (there are total 65 P5 schools)

65. Pittsburgh
64. Washington St
63. Rutgers
62. Georgia Tech
61. Kansas State
60. Boston College
55. West Virginia
53. Clemson

52. Vanderbilt
Best sport: baseball (national champion). Trajectory: up. The Commodores have had appreciable improvements the past two years — from 64th in 2017 to 55th last year and 45th this year. In addition to winning the College World Series this week, Vandy scored big points in bowling, men’s golf and women’s tennis.

51. Miami

49. Mississippi
Best sport: women’s softball, baseball. Trajectory: down. After making the Top 40 the previous two years, the Rebels had a precipitous fall of 18 places in 2018-19. Ole Miss was pretty good in a lot of areas, really good in almost none. Its work on the diamonds, making super regionals in both softball and baseball, kept the year from getting really ugly.

44. Mississippi State
Best sports: baseball, women’s basketball. Trajectory: steady. Tough losses kept the Bulldogs from a pair of Final Fours, on the diamond and the hardwood, but the year still ended with a fourth straight Top 50 finish. Fall sports didn’t make a huge impact, but that’s not unusual for Mississippi State.

37. (tie) Missouri
Best sport: wrestling. Trajectory: down. The Tigers endured an 18-spot drop from 2018 to ’19, tumbling out of the Top 50 for the first time since 2013. Mizzou did almost all its work in the winter sports, with minor contributions in the fall and spring. Next year doesn’t look any better, with the football, softball and baseball programs facing postseason bans (pending appeal).

34. Virginia Tech

32. Tennessee
Best sport: women’s soccer. Trajectory: up. After dipping to a five-year low in 2017, the Volunteers have had consecutive seasons of double-digit advancement. Women’s soccer, women’s swimming, men’s basketball, softball and men’s tennis all had big seasons. If the linchpin programs — football and women’s basketball — ever revive, Tennessee will be hitting on nearly all cylinders.

30. Auburn
Best sports: men’s basketball, women’s golf. Trajectory: down. The Tigers posted their lowest finish of the five-year period, one year after posting their highest finish in the same period. A strong spring and the Final Four breakthrough season for men’s basketball — which came within a foul call of playing for the national title — helped offset a lackluster autumn. Women’s volleyball was the only fall sport to score points.

29. Louisville

28. South Carolina
Best sport: women’s tennis. Trajectory: steady. The Gamecocks had a quality year in a lot of women’s sports — volleyball, soccer, basketball, swimming, track, tennis, softball. Since the Final Four run of 2017, men’s basketball hasn’t been heard from. Baseball set a program record for losses (28) and footballl is stuck in neutral in the SEC East.

27. Alabama

Best sport: football. Trajectory: down. After shooting up the ranks in 2018, the Crimson Tide had a market correction back down 17 spots in ’19. Football, the obvious bellcow, was the only fall program to score. There were multiple successes in the winter and spring sports, most notably: softball, both women’s and men’s track & field, women’s gymnastics and men’s swimming.

26. NC State
22. Oklahoma

20. Arkansas
Best sports: women’s indoor and outdoor track & field (national champions). Trajectory: steady. The Razorbacks have been between 16th and 23rd every year in the five-year period, admirable consistency built on a track & field foundation (moreso the women at the moment). The Hogs also scored well in baseball and women’s golf. The glam sports, football and men’s basketball, are not pulling their weight.

19. Duke

18. LSU
Best sport: women’s gymnastics. Trajectory: up. The Tigers had their best year in a decade, bouncing back well after a disappointing 2017-18. They were national runner-up in women’s gymnastics and scored well in track & field, but the revelation is the school’s status as a rising beach volleyball power. LSU advanced further in that sport than any other school that doesn’t actually sit within 15 miles of a beach. Men’s basketball also had a strong-arse season, scoring more points than it had since 2006.

16. (Tie) Kentucky

Best sports: men’s soccer, rifle, men’s basketball. Trajectory: steady. Kentucky has become a consistent Top 20 overall program. The Wildcats are always good in rifle and men’s hoops, but the men’s soccer run to the NCAA quarterfinals was the best showing in school history. Football also had its best season in more than four decades, a rare boost from that sport.

16T. Notre Dame
15. Oregon
14. Cal

13. Georgia
Best sport: women’s tennis. Trajectory: down. After jumping into the Top 10 in 2017-18, the Bulldogs took a step back in 2018-19. Baseball hosted a regional but failed to advance, swimming didn’t pack its usual punch on either the men’s or women’s side, and fall sports were largely a non-factor outside of football. Beyond football, the best seasons came from women’s tennis, gymnastics and men’s track, both indoors and outdoors.

12. Texas A&M
Best sports: women’s track & field, men’s golf. Trajectory: steady. The Southeastern Conference’s best overall department outside of Florida? Over the past five years it’s the Aggies, who have finished in the Top 15 four straight times. Of course, when you’re raking in more than $200 million a year in revenue, you should be good at a lot of things. The only thing lacking are actual national championships — the Aggies have won just one, in men’s indoor track, in the last five years.

10T. Virginia
10T. Florida St
9. Penn St
8. North Carolina
7. Michigan
6. Texas
5. Ohio St
4. UCLA
3. USC

2. Florida
Best sport: men’s indoor track & field (national champion). Trajectory: steady. For 11 straight years, the Gators have ranked in the top five, and they’ve never in Learfield Cup history been outside the Top 10. Repeat titles by the men in indoor track have kept alive the Gators’ streak of at least one national championship every year this decade. (Florida has won either the indoor or outdoor men’s track titles four straight years.) The Gators did not have their customary success in baseball (missing the College World Series for the first time since 2014) or women’s gymnastics (missing the NCAA finals for the first time since 2011).

1. Stanford

This post was edited on 7/2/19 at 4:26 pm