Kiyoat Husker Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 I was curious how the expansion schools compared to the existing B1G in a number of categories, so I looked it up and put it into a spreadsheet. I realize that there are numerous factors that make a school desirable or feasible that cannot be itemized on a list, but there are some interesting facts on these lists: University Ranking by US World News 2013: Duke 8 Northwestern 12 Notre Dame 17 Vanderbilt 17 Virginia 24 Michigan 29 North Carolina 30 Boston College 31 Georgia Tech 36 Wisconsin 41 Texas 46 Penn State 46 Illinois 46 Ohio State 56 Syracuse 58 Maryland 58 Pittsburgh 58 Connecticut 63 Purdue 65 Rutgers 68 Minnesota 68 Iowa 72 Michigan State 72 Indiana 83 Florida State 97 Missouri 97 Nebraska 101 Kansas 106 Also keep in mind that this ranking includes many schools outside of the 120 FBS Football schools, so a ranking of 101 is not terrible, although I hope Nebraska improves on this as we transition to the B1G. I'm not sure of all the metrics they used for this ranking, but I think ACT/SAT scores, quality of faculty, academic reputation, research profile, stuff like that. The webpage may say more about it: http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities Quote Link to comment
Kiyoat Husker Posted March 13, 2013 Author Share Posted March 13, 2013 Size of Endowment in 2012 (in billions) Texas 18.26 (system-wide) Michigan 7.69 Northwestern 7.12 Notre Dame 6.33 Duke 5.55 Virginia 4.79 Vanderbilt 3.4 Pittsburgh 2.62 Minnesota 2.49 Ohio State 2.37 North Carolina 2.18 Purdue 1.92 (system-wide) Wisconsin 1.81 Penn State 1.78 Illinois 1.67 (system-wide) Boston College 1.65 Georgia Tech 1.61 Indiana 1.58 (system-wide) Michigan State 1.41 Nebraska 1.22 (system-wide) Kansas 1.18 (system-wide) Missouri 1.17 (system-wide) Syracuse Maryland Connecticut Rutgers Iowa Florida State The ones at the bottom had less than a billion in endowments, and didn't appear on the list I used (Wikipedia) Quote Link to comment
Kiyoat Husker Posted March 13, 2013 Author Share Posted March 13, 2013 Athletic Dept Revenue 2012: (private schools did not report) Duke private Northwestern private Notre Dame private Vanderbilt private Boston College private Pittsburgh private Syracuse private Texas 150 Ohio State 132 Michigan 123 Penn State 116 Wisconsin 96 Iowa 93 Michigan State 85 Nebraska 84 Minnesota 79 Virginia 78 Illinois 78 Florida State 78 North Carolina 76 Kansas 75 Indiana 71 Purdue 66 Missouri 64 Connecticut 63 Maryland 62 Rutgers 60 Georgia Tech 54 Georgia Tech was a suprise to me here. They must be a smaller university, but I thought they had more fan support. Would be nice to get the private school data. I am assuming ND has a big budget. Quote Link to comment
Kiyoat Husker Posted March 13, 2013 Author Share Posted March 13, 2013 Football win percent 1992-2012 Ohio State 1 Florida State 3 Nebraska 4 Texas 6 Michigan 11 Wisconsin 14 Notre Dame 23 Boston College 31 Georgia Tech 33 Iowa 35 Virginia 36 Michigan State 45 Syracuse 48 North Carolina 50 Missouri 55 Purdue 60 Northwestern 63 Pittsburgh 65 Maryland 68 Penn State 75 Kansas 76 Rutgers 78 Minnesota 82 Illinois 85 Indiana 95 Vanderbilt 98 Duke 105 UConn not included because of the timeline. This one is Ranking out of all the 120 schools, so Duke and Vandy really are that bad. Penn State seems like it should be higher, not sure what is going on there. I couldn't find a good resource for ranking the schools on basketball, but I guess that is only really a factor for a handful of BB Revenue-producing schools like Duke Kansas and UNC. Quote Link to comment
Kiyoat Husker Posted March 13, 2013 Author Share Posted March 13, 2013 Let me know if you think of another way I can rank these schools ..... ... (setting up a joke)... Quote Link to comment
huKSer Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 College Marching Bands Ranked Bands from the ACC, Big XII, Big East, Big Ten, Pac-10, SEC, Major Independents, and certain chosen other schools were included in the rankings. The rankings include both playing ability, and formations, along with other aspects like uniforms, noise level, instrumentation, etc. 67 Baylor 66 Iowa State 65 Temple 64 Washington State 63 West Virginia 62 Kansas State 61 Pittsburgh 60 Oregon State 59 Connecticut 58 Duke 57 South Carolina 56 Nebraska 55 Virginia Tech 54 Wake Forest 53 Cincinnati 52 Stanford 51 Washington 50 Kentucky 49 Syracuse 48 Miami FL 47 Arizona 46 Oklahoma State 45 Maryland 44 Rutgers 43 Texas Tech 42 Boston College 41 Tennessee 40 Northwestern 39 North Carolina 38 Mississippi 37 Mississippi State 36 Florida State 35 Oklahoma 34 Kansas 33 Auburn 32 Alabama 31 Missouri 30 Georgia 29 Colorado 28 Arizona State 27 Penn State 26 LSU 25 California 24 Virginia 23 Vanderbilt 22 Florida 21 Oregon 20 Minnesota 19 UCLA 18 Iowa 17 NC State 16 Army 15 Arkansas 14 Illinois 13 Georgia Tech 12 Texas 11 USC 10 Indiana 9 Navy 8 Wisconsin 7 Purdue 6 Texas A&M 5 Clemson 4 Notre Dame 3 Michigan 2 Michigan State 1 Ohio State rogerfweber23.tripod.com/.../marchingbandsranked1.doc Quote Link to comment
WoodyHayes1951 Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 The Best Damn Band In The Land I'm shocked someone else besides me has Sparty that high. I'd probably put them as #3 behind the Irish band. That Texas endowment is misleading. It's big but that figure is the entire U of Texas system not UT-Austin. It would be kinda like me adding up U of California-Los Angeles, U of California-Berkeley, U of California-Santa Barbara,etc all together and claiming UC-San Diego has a 20 Billion endowment. Quote Link to comment
Kiyoat Husker Posted March 14, 2013 Author Share Posted March 14, 2013 56th-ranked band? No wonder the AAU dropped us. Even newcomers Maryland and Rutgers have us beat. Ouch. fixed the endowments list to add "system-wide" to several of the schools (including Nebraska). Not exactly apples-to apples, but however you slice it Bevo brings a massive endowment to go along with its massive Athletic budget and massive ego. To be clear, TAMU has its own separate system of Universities, and Cal is also listed as a system-wide entry. They just split the Regent money from the foundation money with Cal(whatever the h@ll that means) Quote Link to comment
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.