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re: Ranking the Power 4 Schools for Academics
Posted on 9/4/25 at 4:44 pm to NFLSU
Posted on 9/4/25 at 4:44 pm to NFLSU
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All of the HS teachers and PE coaches that went to Texas and Texas A&M simply ignore their 60k annual salaries because muhhh academic rankings!
Jokes aside you really should seek therapy for that inferiority complex you have regarding Texas and Texas A&M
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Posted on 9/4/25 at 4:52 pm to AUTiger789
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23. Florida State
25. Miami
I have no idea how this happened. All the dummies always got in to FSU back in the day.
Posted on 9/4/25 at 5:00 pm to bigDgator
UC Berkeley and Michigan are considered to be “safety” schools for those who can’t get into elite, Ivy League caliber schools.
Posted on 9/4/25 at 5:01 pm to AUTiger789
Rankings mean very little. They are all indoctrination factories, but you can probably get a decent education at most if you pick the correct major and put in some effort to actually learn.
Posted on 9/4/25 at 5:11 pm to ChEgrad
I was about to say some of those schools are WAY too high then i saw its just P4.
College football is basically the NFL now. The recruits have about 5 other things more important when they choose a school vs academic ranking.
College football is basically the NFL now. The recruits have about 5 other things more important when they choose a school vs academic ranking.
Posted on 9/4/25 at 5:16 pm to AUTiger789
Yes…. bring Ga Tech back in.
Posted on 9/4/25 at 5:34 pm to AUTiger789
Bear Bryant tried to get Tech back in the conference years ago. Auburn and Georgia blocked it. I doubt that will change. We'll probably end up in the Big10 along with Miami if we ever leave the ACC. I personally prefer the SEC because I want our regional rivalries back but there are a lot of younger Tech fans who prefer the Big10. Doesn't really matter. College sports is fubar anyway.
Posted on 9/4/25 at 5:42 pm to lewis and herschel
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UVA might as well be a private Ivy, don't think they take state money any more.
Other than the $294.4 million that is.
Seriously, a little Googling would have shown you that your assertion is patently false.
Posted on 9/4/25 at 6:09 pm to AUTiger789
They care about markets..so both Duke and Virginia make sense
Posted on 9/4/25 at 6:26 pm to BuzzSaw 12
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there are a lot of younger Tech fans
Tech doesn't have "a lot" of any demographic of fan.
Posted on 9/4/25 at 7:37 pm to New Money
Moron....
Yes—UVA intentionally reduced its reliance on state funding to gain more autonomy. This shift was formalized through a charter agreement passed by the Virginia General Assembly in 2005 and signed by then-Governor Mark Warner. In return for accepting lower state support, UVA was granted heightened autonomy over its own operations.
Here’s how it unfolded:
Declining State Funding Share: Over time, UVA's portion of its total budget funded by the Commonwealth of Virginia shrank drastically. By the 2013–14 period, state funding accounted for just 6 percent of the overall university budget; and only around 9–10 percent of academic division revenue.
I remember when they did this and figured they zeroed out by now. Eitherway, they don't belong in the SEC as noted.
Yes—UVA intentionally reduced its reliance on state funding to gain more autonomy. This shift was formalized through a charter agreement passed by the Virginia General Assembly in 2005 and signed by then-Governor Mark Warner. In return for accepting lower state support, UVA was granted heightened autonomy over its own operations.
Here’s how it unfolded:
Declining State Funding Share: Over time, UVA's portion of its total budget funded by the Commonwealth of Virginia shrank drastically. By the 2013–14 period, state funding accounted for just 6 percent of the overall university budget; and only around 9–10 percent of academic division revenue.
I remember when they did this and figured they zeroed out by now. Eitherway, they don't belong in the SEC as noted.
This post was edited on 9/4/25 at 7:41 pm
Posted on 9/4/25 at 8:20 pm to AUTiger789
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64. Kentucky (56.5, 61, 63)
65. Cincinnati (56.5, 68, 59)
66. Mississippi State (66.5, 64, 56)
67. Louisville (62.5, 66, 65)
Impressive Kentucky.
Posted on 9/4/25 at 8:22 pm to PawnShop
LSU has just accepted that it is a football and baseball factory now.
Posted on 9/4/25 at 8:32 pm to AUTiger789
Meh ... composite rankings are composite.
... and normally highly subjective and often biased.
There's a lot of valid arguments that can be made against these rankings. If I remember correctly, the U.S. News Rankings were debunked for being influenced by money from institutions as well as for showing foreign government influenced biases.
... and normally highly subjective and often biased.
There's a lot of valid arguments that can be made against these rankings. If I remember correctly, the U.S. News Rankings were debunked for being influenced by money from institutions as well as for showing foreign government influenced biases.
Posted on 9/4/25 at 8:33 pm to Gatorbait2008
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They care about markets..so both Duke and Virginia make sense
Virginia doesn’t have much of a market. NOVA only cares about Pro Sports and rural Virginia is mostly Tech fans. Their games are not well attended.
Posted on 9/4/25 at 8:38 pm to AUTiger789
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When it comes to the actual number of eyeballs, Atlanta is by far the largest college football television market in the nation.
Tech's alumni base in Atlanta is actually smaller than several out of state SEC schools (and possibly Clemson too).
Older Tech alumni (those that graduated in the 80s and before) are still around. However, in the last 25-30 years Tech graduates are highly likely to leave and go to the west coast, other parts of the country, or are international students who return home with their degree.
Add in the number of non-Georgia natives that continue to relocate to Atlanta and bring fan support from Big 10 ir Big 12 footprint schools, Tech just doesn't have that many eyeballs to bring to the table.
Posted on 9/4/25 at 8:52 pm to Auburn80
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Impressive, Kentucky.
FIFY
Posted on 9/4/25 at 8:56 pm to AUTiger789
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When I was a kid (‘80s/early ‘90s) Bama was always just a notch above Auburn in the rankings and I remember Bama grads would always stick their chest out about it.
I'm not sure where you got this. Auburn was generally ranked ahead of Alabama throughout the '80's. I made my school choice in part due to those rankings then. Auburn was also the larger school that attracted more OOS students for that period.
Alabama briefly figured out ways to game the US News rankings circa 2000, along with several other institutions around the country. One of many tricks they used was to make applying not only free, but they also gave applicants a $5 iTunes gift card. This pumped up their selectivity by US News standards. They and other schools also admitted marginal freshmen as "provisional" students in the summer term, when the rankings counted only the academics of the "real freshmen" who entered in the Fall. Texas and Clemson IIRC both pulled this one as well.
It took a couple of cycles for US News to fix the rankings to stop the various methods of gaming them, but once they did UAT fell back into the high 100's for all universities.
Posted on 9/4/25 at 8:56 pm to bigDgator
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I have no idea how this happened
I'm surprised as well. I have several relatives that went to FSU and all of them joked about their academics. If they've improved that much, good for them.
Posted on 9/4/25 at 9:08 pm to borotiger
Bright Futures is the FL version of GA's Hope scholarship, not surprised it's elevated FSU (and UF as well).
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