Rivals.com College Football - Texas moves to top of combined rankings

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Triple Threat: Power Programs
Published 7/4/2008 by Nestor at Bruins Nation: Front Page Posts
... So here is something that could generate some fun discussion during this long 4th of July weekend. The folks at Rivals.com have tried to put together a ranking of best schools based on the combination of successful football, basketball, and baseball program. Here is the formula they used: FOOTBALL Share of National Title = 10 points Runner-up = 7 points* Top 4 ranking = 5 points No. 5-8 = 3 points No. 9-16 = 2 points Bowl win, outside top 16 = 1 point Bowl loss, outside top ...

Basketball is Holding Georgia Back
Published 7/5/2008 by T Kyle King at Dawg Sports: Front Page Posts
It was brought to my attention by Bruins Nation that Rivals.com recently ranked college athletics programs based upon their combined success at baseball, basketball and football. Rivals.com’s methodology was somewhat confusing---the formula, for instance, states contradictorily that a team gets five points for a third- or fourth-place finish in the College World Series but receives three points for the selfsame third- or fourth-place finish in the College World Series---but, assuming that we are all agreed that intercollegiate athletics are superior to ...

Making the case for Utah as a Pac-10 team
Published 7/8/2008 by JazzyUte at Block U: Front Page Posts
... looked at the strongest athletic programs in the three major sports, basketball, football and baseball.  And though Utah didn't register in their overall rankings because of the poorness of their baseball program, they were the only non-BCS team that made both the football and basketball lists. ...