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Top 25 schools with most national titles in all sports combined
Posted on 6/1/23 at 10:34 am
Posted on 6/1/23 at 10:34 am
this includes all NCAA and/or AIAW-sponsored and non-sponsored sports. Numbers include all school-claimed football titles.
It does not include Helms Athletic Foundation or Premo-Porretta Power Poll selections for men's basketball, which were awarded retroactively.
1. STANFORD - 152
2. UCLA - 141
3. USC - 134
4. PENN STATE - 97
5. YALE - 87
6. CORNELL - 80
7. NAVY - 74
8. OHIO STATE - 73
9. PRINCETON - 70
10. TEXAS - 64
11. CALIFORNIA-BERKELEY - 60
12. MICHIGAN - 57
13. ARIZONA STATE - 56
14. OKLAHOMA STATE // PENN // WASHINGTON - 54
17. WISCONSIN - 54
18. ARKANSAS - 51
19. HARVARD // LSU // NORTH CAROLINA - 50
22. MARYLAND - 48
23. FLORIDA - 47
24. GEORGIA // OKLAHOMA - 42
It does not include Helms Athletic Foundation or Premo-Porretta Power Poll selections for men's basketball, which were awarded retroactively.
1. STANFORD - 152
2. UCLA - 141
3. USC - 134
4. PENN STATE - 97
5. YALE - 87
6. CORNELL - 80
7. NAVY - 74
8. OHIO STATE - 73
9. PRINCETON - 70
10. TEXAS - 64
11. CALIFORNIA-BERKELEY - 60
12. MICHIGAN - 57
13. ARIZONA STATE - 56
14. OKLAHOMA STATE // PENN // WASHINGTON - 54
17. WISCONSIN - 54
18. ARKANSAS - 51
19. HARVARD // LSU // NORTH CAROLINA - 50
22. MARYLAND - 48
23. FLORIDA - 47
24. GEORGIA // OKLAHOMA - 42
This post was edited on 6/1/23 at 10:36 am
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Posted on 6/1/23 at 10:36 am to JetDawg
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STANFORD - 152
Sheesh. That’s impressive. Assuming swimming is a big part of that?
Posted on 6/1/23 at 10:38 am to BevoBucks
Stanford dominates womens fencing, artistic swimming, polo, and fencing
there are about 5-8 schools total competing in each
there are about 5-8 schools total competing in each
This post was edited on 6/1/23 at 10:39 am
Posted on 6/1/23 at 10:39 am to BevoBucks
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Assuming swimming is a big part of that?
Almost in every sport played...more amazing is the fact that they've won all these DESPITE their most rigorous and difficult academic environment. Truly remarkable. Same for UCLA & USC, both extremely tough schools academically.
Posted on 6/1/23 at 10:39 am to BevoBucks
Yes.............swimming, volleyball, peter-bumping, circle-jerking, jackass Dem liberal penepuffing, those major sports.
Posted on 6/1/23 at 10:49 am to JetDawg
Posted on 6/1/23 at 10:52 am to charliethehun
quote:Golf is very good, softball is headed to the WCWS and rowing won the national title too. Also pretty good at sailing I believe. They have a very strong athletic department (and no wonder: I'm sure the recruiting pitch is much easier for them compared to their peers). But while they're pretty good at most mainstream sports, they're always elite in some of the niche sports (which you pointed out aren't offered by that many schools).
Stanford dominates womens fencing, artistic swimming, polo, and fencing
I think Stanford has something like 32 or 33 varsity sports in total (in comparison, I think Texas has something like 20, which is relatively standard for power conference schools).
Posted on 6/1/23 at 10:54 am to JetDawg
So, it's the age-old quandary. Do you want to put all your resources into football and dominate, or spread it out to all the little people?
Posted on 6/1/23 at 11:03 am to JetDawg
More evidence that the Longhorns should have gone to the PAC where they belong.
Posted on 6/1/23 at 11:28 am to JetDawg
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more amazing is the fact that they've won all these DESPITE their most rigorous and difficult academic environment
In a pool of scholarships, the academic ones are determined by the school, while the athletic ones can only be a maximum, fixed amount per NCAA rules.
Stanford manipulates their system to accept "regular" athletes by skewing financial aid only to academic applicants (i.e., those who actually meet the more rigorous criteria).
This allows them to free up the majority of the athletic ones for students who might not otherwise qualify.
Ivy League schools don't offer athletic scholarships and thus can't do this, hence the reason why they don't compete as well — they must also meet the academic criteria you described.
Posted on 6/1/23 at 11:49 am to paperwasp
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Ivy League schools don't offer athletic scholarships and thus can't do this, hence the reason why they don't compete as well — they must also meet the academic criteria you described.
That used to not be the case. Ivy League schools dominated college sports in the early years because they would cheerfully "buy" an athlete for a given sport.
Two things stopped that. One: people started questioning why the top academic schools in the country were enrolling students who barely managed to graduate high school. Two: other schools became a lot more competitive at offering sweetheart deals.
Faced with competing with schools that really cared about football (and other sports) the Ivy League schools gradually retreated.
Oddly enough the sleeping giants no one talks about are the military academies. Hypothetically Army, Navy, Air Force, and even the Coast Guard, can recruit as many players as they like. They can sign 10 players a year, they can sign 100. Because none of them are there on an athletic scholarship.
That is why Army and Navy turned from respectable strong programs into absolute monsters during World War II because they could cherry pick absolutely every athlete they wanted.
Posted on 6/1/23 at 11:51 am to Gunny Hartman
And you guys should have went to Conference USA where you belong
Posted on 6/1/23 at 11:57 am to JetDawg
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more amazing is the fact that they've won all these DESPITE their most rigorous and difficult academic environment. Truly remarkable. Same for UCLA & USC, both extremely tough schools academically.
Yep. And, UT’s now moved into the top 10 of public universities if you believe rankings.
Posted on 6/1/23 at 11:58 am to Arksulli
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Arksulli
Great post.
Posted on 6/1/23 at 12:06 pm to Gunny Hartman
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More evidence that the Longhorns should have gone to the PAC where they belong.
and aNm doesn't belong in the SEC
Posted on 6/1/23 at 12:11 pm to JetDawg
Me coming into this thread: “This is just one of those dumbass lists that weight track and field as the same as football and they think…”
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19. LSU - 50
Posted on 6/1/23 at 12:17 pm to Box Geauxrilla
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Me coming into this thread: “This is just one of those dumbass lists that weight track and field as the same as football and they think…”
Unlike football all of these inferior sports as you might call them actually have been crowning a true national champion for a whole lot longer than football has.
Posted on 6/1/23 at 12:21 pm to JetDawg
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19. HARVARD // LSU // NORTH CAROLINA - 50
It’s good to see LSU with its peers
Posted on 6/1/23 at 12:27 pm to JetDawg
UF has won 25 of its 47 titles since 2008. Since 2008, UF has won at least one national title in every fully contested athletic season.
16 different UF teams have won at least one national title, the 4th highest array of titles for a program and highest east of the Mississippi.
16 different UF teams have won at least one national title, the 4th highest array of titles for a program and highest east of the Mississippi.
Posted on 6/1/23 at 12:54 pm to bgator85
Texas has 8 Natty's & 7 runner-ups since 2020-21, most of any school during that time
This post was edited on 6/1/23 at 12:56 pm
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