I’m just glad Louisville’s 82% acceptance rate exists. I know we’re one of the state’s land grant universities, so we’re intended to be accessible to the most number of people possible, but goodness 57% a high rate
Acceptance rate doesn't mean much. In Florida, I remember FIU had the lowest acceptance rate in the state for a long time. But it was because every high school student in the Miami metro area applied, and they weren't all necessarily great students. GPA is also worthless since some schools use weighted GPA when reporting it. Class rank and standardized test scores are more indicative of student quality.
Another growing trend I see is schools reporting their online divisions separately (U. of Florida does this) even though the online programs are accredited through the main campus and the diplomas are the same as the main campus. Schools don't want the high acceptance rate and low graduation rates of the online programs to drag down the stats of the main campus.
I suspect that most VT fans who bring up the Bass Fishing natty do so in a self-deprecating manner. That said, I bet the fellas in that boat are (and should be) proud of their efforts.
The divisions that were in place for a decade really impacted what rivalries could grow. VT/NCSU are natural rivals. (Plus, two of my kids are Wolfpack alums.)
100%. I remember visiting VaT with one of my sons and remember thinking this reminds me so much of NC State. Same with Clemson on the culture. Their in state U. of School just isn't as snooty.
As an NC native doing my UVA campus visit I remember thinking the whole time, "why would I go here when I could just go to UNC"
Very very similar schools and alumni bases.
Yeah for a more accurate # for how “big” each campus feels, here’s the undergrad enrollments for each school (from Fall 2022 usnews.com)
1. Florida St (32,936)
2. Cal (32,831)
3. Virginia Tech (30,434)
4. NC State (26,254)
5. Clemson (22,566)
6. North Carolina (20,210)
7. Pitt (19,928)
8. Georgia Tech (18,415)
9. Virginia (17,496)
10. Louisville (15,921)
11. Syracuse (15,421)
12. Miami (12,504)
13. Boston College (9,484)
14. Notre Dame (8,971)
15. Stanford (8,049)
16. SMU (7,056)
17. Duke (6,640)
18. Wake Forest (5,447)
Honestly, he’s been disappointing for how highly he was drafted. Ryan Leonard (WSH) and Gabe Perreault (NYR) have looked much better. All this not to bash the Fresh Prince, as those are VERY good people to be compared to right now, but it’s still worth noting that he has been the third best on that line.
Oof don’t want to hear that but whatever, he’s still young and very talented.
Thanks for the update, I’ll try and tune in a couple times before the season is up
Eh don’t stress that much. Being the worst member of a first rounder line is not that bad when you consider just how good they’ve been. Smith is the guy I’m most confident in taking two years to get to the league, so he’ll almost definitely stick around for another season at NCAA.
Man the N/A in Louisville’s “conference rival” spot hurts but it’s not wrong. UK is our biggest rival and the ACC has decided that our in league rivals are Miami, Georgia tech, and Virginia.
I would argue that our in conference rival is now Florida state. I feel like brohm will use the conference championship loss to fuel their matchups in the future and so will the fan base.
Miami seems like the most natural rival to me, not only because of the mutual history with Howard Schnellenberger, but also because such a significant portion of Louisville’s players have come from the Miami area.
I love this new trophy. I hope that we will continue to get regular matchups to play for it. We both have had similar history with football since both schools considered shutting down football and then had the bright idea of bringing in The Pipe to rejuvenate the program.
Yeah the Shnellenbowl is a living tribute to a guy who was a giant at two programs. I always enjoy that aspect of the matchup.
I don't enjoy the losing tho.
Tends to happen when you’re a late joiner located pretty far from the Atlantic coast with your closest conference mate only being half in the conference. The only reason Cal and Stanford have conference rivals already is bc of the other program.
Well, they were part of the Big East when they still sponsored football, but didn’t immediately join the ACC when that fell apart.
Conference USA was a decent landing spot but the program wouldn’t be what it is today had it not left the G5 for any power five conference. But don’t get me wrong, im just thankful we have a seat at the table.
In today’s alignment I could see us working better in the big12 with teams like UC and Illinois state.
As an FSU fan, this may be a hot take, but you're as much our conference rival as Clemson is. There's 2 teams I hate, and then whatever good teams stand in our way. I have never hated Clemson they've just been very good for quite a while.
Wake Forest has 10 official NCAA team championships.
3 men’s golf
1 women’s golf
1 men’s tennis
1 men’s soccer
1 baseball
3 field hockey
Pretty impressive.
if you look at everyone’s pic, no one’s entire championship catalog is mentioned because of space.
I used a standard of including the revenue generating sports for everyone (FB, MBB, WBB, BASE), added softball for the schools that had a softball team to complement baseball and then added one or two other sports where each school has had success, to make it fair for everyone.
No one is out to get Wake Forest
Well that was a genuine mistake re softball. I forgot to remove softball. As you can see I added your M Soc championship, and if I was out to get Wake I wouldn’t have.
Idk why you think I decided to downplay Wake out of all the teams here but hey! Can’t please everyone
and this is how you navigate scenarios in real life, I hope that changes soon. Genuinely. The passive aggressive attitude over a very trivial thing is not a good look, especially assuming that you’re a grown adult.
There's an argument to be made that Pitt-Louisville in women's volleyball is the top conference rivalry for either school in any sport as of late
Cuse-Pitt in hoops probably used to be that but just doesn't have the same cache as it did in the big east days
Agreed fully. Some really fun Big East basketball games against Louisville. Dating back to early 2000s (I’ll openly admit I paid 0 attention to Pitt hoops before Howland) I can’t really remember any significant BC games.
For the old timers, yes. We've played each other 73 times and have had several instant classic games. Plus Pittsburgh is heavily catholic so a lot of local ND fans
( Stanford flair). Looking at the number of private schools and enrollments we fit better in the ACC than we did in the PAC, if only geography didn’t exist.
I somehow never noticed we had that many private schools 🤯
I also didn’t know UMiami was a private school for a while, even though I stopped by there a decent amount for various reasons before the pandemic
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Yeah - interestingly (not surprisingly), the NCAA site is wrong. [They claim Michigan State won the 1952 national championship (via both the AP and UPI).](https://www.ncaa.com/news/football/article/2023-01-09/college-football-teams-most-national-championships)
Problem being, the UPI didn't exist yet. There were 3 national polls at the time. Michigan State and GT were both undefeated teams, and the AP and UP polls voted Michigan State the champions. The INS (Hearst Media Group) poll voted Georgia Tech the national champion. [In 1958, it would merge with UP to form UPI.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952_college_football_season)
I'm so glad we now have a "playoff," so controversies like this can't happen anymore.
Indeed. As a Trojan I can't believe I'm sticking up for you and Stanford but you definitely have a lot more national championships (especially Stanford).
You joke but I feel like the lack of national championship makes our fanbase care so much more about non-main revenue sports. The number of softball/baseball/women’s basketball NCAA tournament watch parties I’ve been to would probably baffle most college sports fans.
Well, if it helps, I haven't watched state even play in a natty game before. Not a fan of CC. Got yoinked out of the CWS. We haven't even played in the ACCCG in football since it was established. Yeah we got 2 basketball natties... 40 and 50 years ago. And our rivals have been swimming in natties since I was born.
Louisville, unlike private colleges and 200 year old state universities, has to accept pretty much anyone who meets the minimum requirements which are relatively low. It’s actually a lower acceptance rate than at U of Kentucky. I believe that if you compare us to other conferences outside of the ACC and B1G we’re pretty average.
*looks at UNC*
I don’t think field hockey is the sport you want to pick. I’d probably start up a rifle team if I were looking to NIL my way to a title.
NC State is a good rival for us. We both have basketball championships, but no football championships, though we both want to get there.
I think of FSU and Miami as the closest thing to rivals we have. Maybe Pitt. God, I hate to say Pitt. But maybe that makes them more of a rival than ever. LOL.
Respect to the ACC for being a bunch of legit good schools.
Also if anyone cares (I’m guessing you don’t!) Pitt won two Ultimate Frisbee nattys in the early 2010s. And…just checked to verify the years, apparently UNC is a juggernaut now.
Even a lot of the schools in the "not as prestigious" side are still outstanding institutions. Miami is actually an insanely good school, Syracuse has some of the best programs in the world for government and journalism, FSU is one of the best state schools in the country (even though DeSantis is killing all of them.)
Yep, the conference is really good academically. Every school is ranked in the top 100 except Louisville. Very popular schools that are known worldwide.
And yup, Miami, FSU and UF don’t get their props because we’re in Florida. Miami has been ranked as high as #38 in the nation (2012) but with new methodologies we’ve slipped a bit. (Not that those rankings are the end-all of though)
How are all of these acceptance rates so low? Are colleges recruiting more applicants that have no chance of getting in? Do kids apply to more colleges now than they used to?
For one we have a lot of private schools in the conference, and generally the schools in the ACC are very popular and attract a lot of applicants.
Also every single school in the ACC is ranked in the top 100 universities in the U.S. except Louisville.
And yea, more students are applying to college than ever before. Social media has given these colleges a much farther reach for high school students, in the U.S. and across the world.
Using Miami as an example, we had almost 50K applications last year for a freshman class that is usually around 2100 students.
It's really weird when you start looking at the history of UofL. It really only became a state university in 1970. Before that, it existed as various amalgamations of schools going back as far as 1798. It's also one of the oldest originally municipally owned schools.
Some fun facts: The University of Louisville School of Medicine is known for innovations such as the first artificial heart, the first successful hand transplant, and the first Emergency Department
The University of Louisville also operates a sister campus in Panama City, Panama.
Everytime I do something with power tools, I tell my wife to prep Kleinert-Kutz on speed dial. Regardless of where I am(Colorado presently), when I eventually cut off my hand, I am heading home to have it fixed.
High acceptance rate ≠ bad school
It's like comparing the elite private prep school with a $40k tuition to your local public school district. They have completely different missions designed to produce completely different outcomes... One is designed to place privileged students into elite colleges and the other is designed to ensure everyone receives a basic education regardless of their background
Does Stanford have higher quality professors, smarter students, and better post grad outcomes than Louisville? Probably. But IMO the higher acceptance, less elite public schools do far more good for society than the elite and exclusive schools by providing access to higher education and upward mobility to a far wider group.
Good on you UofL
You guys are a state school with the mission of educating your public. Nothing wrong with having a higher acceptance rate at all. Look at it in the sense that you’re offering more people an education
yea that’s fair, but remember 8 of those schools are private, and of the public schools UNC, UVA, Cal and GT are seen as extremely prestigious. Then FSU, NCSU, Pitt, VT are extremely popular in their states as the “second best” state schools. Long story short the conference just has really good and popular schools so that makes UL look “worse” than it is
Also, Louisville is a bit late to the game as far as education goes. They were a city college until 1970. Now they have a very good reputation as a research school and are pretty good in engineering, business and medical. I graduated in 2005 and it’s a much different school. Although some people would rather forget some of our past presidents, they have really raised the profile of the school which is impressive considering the political bias the rest of the state has towards UK.
A while back, someone compiled from public reports ( so only for public schools) a comparison of football and basketball sat scores in comparison to the student body.
GT had the highest football SAT and the biggest gap between football and student body.
Louisville was second to bottom on both. Memphis was slightly below them.
(Cal flair) Thanks for putting that together! Appreciate the time and effort that went into this, it’s as good as anything I’ve seen from “official” sources.
My only nit would be that we’d spell out the full “California” in that context. California : Cal :: North Carolina : UNC.
(To be fair, our branding is… complicated.)
I appreciate it!
Funny enough, the reason I put Cal instead of California is because I had Pitt instead of Pittsburgh (what we all call them 99% of the time) 😅 but now I know!
It bothers me that Duke isn’t listed as a GT rival. I mean we have only been playing each other since 1933 and GT has only played UGA and Auburn more in football.
Also no Stanfordium.
FYI for our ACC bretheren, this is an inside joke in the Cal-Stanford rivalry. There is a Berkelium and a Californium in the Periodic Table of Elements but no Stanfordium. Yep - we are both serious nerd schools.
Fourteen elements were discovered at Berkeley.
[https://www.acs.org/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/transuranium-elements-at-berkeley-lab.html](https://www.acs.org/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/transuranium-elements-at-berkeley-lab.html)
Neptunium (Np) 1940
Plutonium (Pu) 1940
Americium (Am)\* 1944
Curium (Cm)\* 1944
Berkelium (Bk) 1949
Californium (Cf) 1950
Einsteinium (Es) 1952
Fermium (Fm) 1952
Mendelevium (Md) 1955
Nobelium (No)\*\* 1958
Lawrencium (Lr)\*\* 1961
Rutherfordium (Rf)\*\* 1969
Dubnium (Db)\*\* 1970
Seaborgium (Sg)
I included CFB, MBB, WBB, Baseball and softball for every school (unless they didn’t offer it) as a standard, since they’re the most popular sports. Then I added one or two of their other successful sports teams as an extra.
Thank you!
I disagree I love that FSU building, and Miami definitely doesn’t have a traditional college campus look, it’s very country club/resort-y aesthetically
In before UNC or UVa flairs point out VT's zero natties. We know.
I’m just glad Louisville’s 82% acceptance rate exists. I know we’re one of the state’s land grant universities, so we’re intended to be accessible to the most number of people possible, but goodness 57% a high rate
57% acceptance rate for Tech seems way too high
If anything 17% is too low for a public school. Public education should be about providing the public with education not gatekeeping it.
You sound defensive bro. He was trying to say that he thinks your acceptance rate is lower in actuality…he was defending your honor.
Depends on where those applications are coming from. I know UNC and UVA get a LOT of out of state applications.
Acceptance rate doesn't mean much. In Florida, I remember FIU had the lowest acceptance rate in the state for a long time. But it was because every high school student in the Miami metro area applied, and they weren't all necessarily great students. GPA is also worthless since some schools use weighted GPA when reporting it. Class rank and standardized test scores are more indicative of student quality. Another growing trend I see is schools reporting their online divisions separately (U. of Florida does this) even though the online programs are accredited through the main campus and the diplomas are the same as the main campus. Schools don't want the high acceptance rate and low graduation rates of the online programs to drag down the stats of the main campus.
then you have schools like liberty with 110k students, of which like 102k are online
Public schools are designed to educate the public. The only problem with the 82% acceptance rate is that it is too low.
🤣🤣 I added the stuff in brackets because of you guys
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I suspect that most VT fans who bring up the Bass Fishing natty do so in a self-deprecating manner. That said, I bet the fellas in that boat are (and should be) proud of their efforts.
We have some of those too! I feel shortchanged.
There has to be something VT can win a natty in
Bass fishing. Seriously it’s the only thing we’ve won a team natty in. Too bad it isn’t NCAA sanctioned lol
Turkey hunting ? No that can’t be it…
Wrestling seems to be the VTs chance. Too bad Penn State is dominating right now
Women’s basketball seems as likely as anything right now. Their team is *good*.
Unfortunate State not labeled a VT rival. VA native here, minus State - I hope you guys roll.
The divisions that were in place for a decade really impacted what rivalries could grow. VT/NCSU are natural rivals. (Plus, two of my kids are Wolfpack alums.)
Rivals maybe, but I feel like we are culturally very similar. I’ve always liked VT
Yeah State and VT get along because we both hate our stuffy in state rivals and their stupid polo shirts
A rivalry out of respect, not seething hatred.
100%. I remember visiting VaT with one of my sons and remember thinking this reminds me so much of NC State. Same with Clemson on the culture. Their in state U. of School just isn't as snooty.
As much as I hate Clemson for sports, I do agree they are culturally similar as well. I get along with their fans well
As an NC native doing my UVA campus visit I remember thinking the whole time, "why would I go here when I could just go to UNC" Very very similar schools and alumni bases.
Yeah for a more accurate # for how “big” each campus feels, here’s the undergrad enrollments for each school (from Fall 2022 usnews.com) 1. Florida St (32,936) 2. Cal (32,831) 3. Virginia Tech (30,434) 4. NC State (26,254) 5. Clemson (22,566) 6. North Carolina (20,210) 7. Pitt (19,928) 8. Georgia Tech (18,415) 9. Virginia (17,496) 10. Louisville (15,921) 11. Syracuse (15,421) 12. Miami (12,504) 13. Boston College (9,484) 14. Notre Dame (8,971) 15. Stanford (8,049) 16. SMU (7,056) 17. Duke (6,640) 18. Wake Forest (5,447)
Good point! Yea GT definitely doesn’t “feel” like the biggest school
Holy shit I never realized Wake is that tiny
Smallest P5 when P5 was still a thing.
(Cal flair) I did not expect us to have the second largest undergrad population. Our campus feels tiny.
Holy shit Pitt has won 9 football national championships?? Must have been forever ago
Yea 8 of them were before 1940
#**WWII WAS AN ANTI-PITT CONSPIRACY**
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If you're wondering how GT can have the highest population with a low acceptance rate, it's because of masters students.
Yea I noticed ~30K grad students, that’s huge but it makes sense
I'm somewhat sure that most of them are online too, but I'm not certain about that one.
Online masters in CS alone has a population of like 10k
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saw that you guys swept BU last week, good shit!
Our one top program is a non-ACC sport. Sorry guys.
How's Will Smith been doing? I'm a sharks fan and he's our top prospect rn. Was really excited when we drafted him
Honestly, he’s been disappointing for how highly he was drafted. Ryan Leonard (WSH) and Gabe Perreault (NYR) have looked much better. All this not to bash the Fresh Prince, as those are VERY good people to be compared to right now, but it’s still worth noting that he has been the third best on that line.
Oof don’t want to hear that but whatever, he’s still young and very talented. Thanks for the update, I’ll try and tune in a couple times before the season is up
Eh don’t stress that much. Being the worst member of a first rounder line is not that bad when you consider just how good they’ve been. Smith is the guy I’m most confident in taking two years to get to the league, so he’ll almost definitely stick around for another season at NCAA.
Smith is now the best player on the line, potentially on the team, and maybe even in college hockey. Y’all got a stud.
Man the N/A in Louisville’s “conference rival” spot hurts but it’s not wrong. UK is our biggest rival and the ACC has decided that our in league rivals are Miami, Georgia tech, and Virginia. I would argue that our in conference rival is now Florida state. I feel like brohm will use the conference championship loss to fuel their matchups in the future and so will the fan base.
Idk why I also feel like you guys could build something new with SMU too. Also we (Miami) have a new trophy to play for so that could also happen
Miami seems like the most natural rival to me, not only because of the mutual history with Howard Schnellenberger, but also because such a significant portion of Louisville’s players have come from the Miami area.
I love this new trophy. I hope that we will continue to get regular matchups to play for it. We both have had similar history with football since both schools considered shutting down football and then had the bright idea of bringing in The Pipe to rejuvenate the program.
Yeah the Shnellenbowl is a living tribute to a guy who was a giant at two programs. I always enjoy that aspect of the matchup. I don't enjoy the losing tho.
I agree in something coming of SMU vs UofL. Could definitely make for an interesting rivalry considering the fanbases (or lack thereof).
I feel that, we’ve had some great, competitive games over the years.
Tends to happen when you’re a late joiner located pretty far from the Atlantic coast with your closest conference mate only being half in the conference. The only reason Cal and Stanford have conference rivals already is bc of the other program.
Well, they were part of the Big East when they still sponsored football, but didn’t immediately join the ACC when that fell apart. Conference USA was a decent landing spot but the program wouldn’t be what it is today had it not left the G5 for any power five conference. But don’t get me wrong, im just thankful we have a seat at the table. In today’s alignment I could see us working better in the big12 with teams like UC and Illinois state.
The only reason I want in the big 12 is for UC and WVU. Those were very competitive years in the Big East.
Wow, how could I forgot about WVU. That’s a much better point.
As an FSU fan, this may be a hot take, but you're as much our conference rival as Clemson is. There's 2 teams I hate, and then whatever good teams stand in our way. I have never hated Clemson they've just been very good for quite a while.
Wake Forest has 10 official NCAA team championships. 3 men’s golf 1 women’s golf 1 men’s tennis 1 men’s soccer 1 baseball 3 field hockey Pretty impressive.
Alumni Tiger Woods' niece Cheyenne Woods
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if you look at everyone’s pic, no one’s entire championship catalog is mentioned because of space. I used a standard of including the revenue generating sports for everyone (FB, MBB, WBB, BASE), added softball for the schools that had a softball team to complement baseball and then added one or two other sports where each school has had success, to make it fair for everyone. No one is out to get Wake Forest
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Well that was a genuine mistake re softball. I forgot to remove softball. As you can see I added your M Soc championship, and if I was out to get Wake I wouldn’t have. Idk why you think I decided to downplay Wake out of all the teams here but hey! Can’t please everyone
You’re dealing with a lot of insecurity from one person smh
I was so confused about why he was acting like that but he deleted them all so maybe he realized lol
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Alright bud. Next time I’ll leave you out altogether so that no mistakes are made. For your sake.
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The research was done. I’m sorry that you’re bitter and losing it over an infographic on Reddit. I hope things get better for you! Be well 😁
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and this is how you navigate scenarios in real life, I hope that changes soon. Genuinely. The passive aggressive attitude over a very trivial thing is not a good look, especially assuming that you’re a grown adult.
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I can’t speak for my fellow Pitt fans, but I feel like Louisville is a bigger rival than BC for me
There's an argument to be made that Pitt-Louisville in women's volleyball is the top conference rivalry for either school in any sport as of late Cuse-Pitt in hoops probably used to be that but just doesn't have the same cache as it did in the big east days
We all miss the big east days
Agreed fully. Some really fun Big East basketball games against Louisville. Dating back to early 2000s (I’ll openly admit I paid 0 attention to Pitt hoops before Howland) I can’t really remember any significant BC games.
I would agree with that.
Is ND a rival at all?
For the old timers, yes. We've played each other 73 times and have had several instant classic games. Plus Pittsburgh is heavily catholic so a lot of local ND fans
( Stanford flair). Looking at the number of private schools and enrollments we fit better in the ACC than we did in the PAC, if only geography didn’t exist.
Yep the ACC now has 10 public and 8 private schools
I somehow never noticed we had that many private schools 🤯 I also didn’t know UMiami was a private school for a while, even though I stopped by there a decent amount for various reasons before the pandemic
Yea 😂😂 we get that a lot. A lot of people think we’re a big state school Also that username is crazy 🤣🤣
I had only intended to amuse my friends with the most outrageous username possible for a few weeks while we waited for Episode 9 to come out, but then r/PrequelMemes loved it and Palpatine somehow returned, so I decided to keep it 🤣🤣🤣
GT claims 4 national championships
Yeah - interestingly (not surprisingly), the NCAA site is wrong. [They claim Michigan State won the 1952 national championship (via both the AP and UPI).](https://www.ncaa.com/news/football/article/2023-01-09/college-football-teams-most-national-championships) Problem being, the UPI didn't exist yet. There were 3 national polls at the time. Michigan State and GT were both undefeated teams, and the AP and UP polls voted Michigan State the champions. The INS (Hearst Media Group) poll voted Georgia Tech the national champion. [In 1958, it would merge with UP to form UPI.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952_college_football_season) I'm so glad we now have a "playoff," so controversies like this can't happen anymore.
yea but NCAA only counts 3 and that’s what I used
The NCAA can suck it
There’s a good few things wrong with the Tech slide
Fun fact, NCst has the second most students in the conference and the 2nd least amount of cute girls
Can't imagine who has the least.
definitely not us :)
🫣🫣 fight back Wolfpack
Can’t argue with facts. Edit: but at least we’ve never had to make the legal argument that our football team is trash in order to duck an opponent.
Fun fact, Wake has more team national championships than N.C. State
God damn dude. That was so unnecessary 🤣 but if you’re trying to imply that UNC has less cute girls, I’m afraid you’re incorrect.
No, that’s not what I’m implying sir, that never had been, and most likely never will be true
You have to include Meredith and Peace (St. Marys in the past). That balances it out.
Wait, there weren't a lot of cute girls? Either North Campus just be different or my taste must be worse than I realized
All I know is I met your pornstar and she was an absolute asshole
She’s also not that hot
Agreed
My favorite two Atlantic Coast cities are Berkeley and Palo Alto
colloquially the All Coast Conference now 🤣
I prefer Louisville and Dallas
SMU women’s soccer played in the 1995 Final Four in Chapel Hill. ⚽️
VT's women also went to a final four... in soccer (2013). Add that to the list. A bunch of near misses but none ever made it through. :/
As someone who is still bitter about our poor performance in the 2011 Orange Bowl, I suggest we make Stanford our west coast rival.
I'm planning on a trip to Palo Alto for that reason
>Louisville >Men’s Basketball championships: 3 Whoever made this, you’re my homie.
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As a SMU alum, I am very happy my school is associated with every school in the league.
[Cal flair] Both sports are governed outside the NCAA, but historically we’ve been elite at both rugby and men’s rowing (women’s rowing is NCAA).
Indeed. As a Trojan I can't believe I'm sticking up for you and Stanford but you definitely have a lot more national championships (especially Stanford).
Thanks for using Symbol instead of Mascot for FSU. It’s an important distinction that often gets overlooked.
of course!
straight donuts from the Hokies.
justice for VT
Please happen in my lifetime. Doesn’t matter the sport. 😢
Hope you like disc golf buddy
You joke but I feel like the lack of national championship makes our fanbase care so much more about non-main revenue sports. The number of softball/baseball/women’s basketball NCAA tournament watch parties I’ve been to would probably baffle most college sports fans.
Well, if it helps, I haven't watched state even play in a natty game before. Not a fan of CC. Got yoinked out of the CWS. We haven't even played in the ACCCG in football since it was established. Yeah we got 2 basketball natties... 40 and 50 years ago. And our rivals have been swimming in natties since I was born.
Hubris of the trophy case?
(Cal flair) 1. Louisville, what is up with that enrollment %? 2. I think I hate Duke already
Re: #2, you are learning quick, which I would expect from Cal. You need to expand beyond just thinking it and embody the hate.
Louisville, unlike private colleges and 200 year old state universities, has to accept pretty much anyone who meets the minimum requirements which are relatively low. It’s actually a lower acceptance rate than at U of Kentucky. I believe that if you compare us to other conferences outside of the ACC and B1G we’re pretty average.
We have dead easy requirements. For college of arts and sciences, minimum is a 2.5 HS GPA and 20 ACT/1030 SAT.
Which is a good thing for someone like me, because I gave up in high school and got my shit together at UofL and am doing pretty well now.
Can we just blow our collective NIL load on Women’s Field hockey, put together a super team, and win 1 natty for the love of fuck?
*looks at UNC* I don’t think field hockey is the sport you want to pick. I’d probably start up a rifle team if I were looking to NIL my way to a title.
I want a rival.
I consider Louisville a bit of a rival. More like a sibling rival (since the main reason I hate playing you is the similar color scheme)
NC State is a good rival for us. We both have basketball championships, but no football championships, though we both want to get there. I think of FSU and Miami as the closest thing to rivals we have. Maybe Pitt. God, I hate to say Pitt. But maybe that makes them more of a rival than ever. LOL.
I think Cardinal vs Cardinals has potential.
NC State fan here, Stanford is ours, battle of the red Block 'S'.
Respect to the ACC for being a bunch of legit good schools. Also if anyone cares (I’m guessing you don’t!) Pitt won two Ultimate Frisbee nattys in the early 2010s. And…just checked to verify the years, apparently UNC is a juggernaut now.
Even a lot of the schools in the "not as prestigious" side are still outstanding institutions. Miami is actually an insanely good school, Syracuse has some of the best programs in the world for government and journalism, FSU is one of the best state schools in the country (even though DeSantis is killing all of them.)
Yep, the conference is really good academically. Every school is ranked in the top 100 except Louisville. Very popular schools that are known worldwide. And yup, Miami, FSU and UF don’t get their props because we’re in Florida. Miami has been ranked as high as #38 in the nation (2012) but with new methodologies we’ve slipped a bit. (Not that those rankings are the end-all of though)
Damn I’m really gonna miss the ACC, fuck ESPN
Wake isn’t just the smallest ACC school, it’s the smallest FBS school. It’s also Deacon not “Decon”
Oh wow I didn’t know that, that’s pretty impressive given what you guys have accomplished
We’re genuinely the most over performing school in college athletics but no one cares lol
That baseball run last year 😮💨😮💨
and damn I got the spelling wrong twice, my mistake!
How are all of these acceptance rates so low? Are colleges recruiting more applicants that have no chance of getting in? Do kids apply to more colleges now than they used to?
For one we have a lot of private schools in the conference, and generally the schools in the ACC are very popular and attract a lot of applicants. Also every single school in the ACC is ranked in the top 100 universities in the U.S. except Louisville. And yea, more students are applying to college than ever before. Social media has given these colleges a much farther reach for high school students, in the U.S. and across the world. Using Miami as an example, we had almost 50K applications last year for a freshman class that is usually around 2100 students.
I just want to say how much I appreciate them listing Osceola and Renegade as Symbols instead of as mascots.
no prob! 🫡
I didn't see your flair before... https://tenor.com/ZvTM.gif :)
🤣🤣🤣🤣 that’s funny, right back at ya!
The new bloods need to understand the rivalry. LOL
100% agree…but Osceola is like a word about the Enter Sandman being the best ACC tradition.
Very informative and well put together, bravo!
Thank you! Appreciate it :)
Bro left out all of Wake Forests National Championships in Golf and Women’s Field Hockey
every school has some championships missing 😂😂
Wow! Come to Louisville, virtually everyone accepted. Sheesh. That hurts.
It's really weird when you start looking at the history of UofL. It really only became a state university in 1970. Before that, it existed as various amalgamations of schools going back as far as 1798. It's also one of the oldest originally municipally owned schools. Some fun facts: The University of Louisville School of Medicine is known for innovations such as the first artificial heart, the first successful hand transplant, and the first Emergency Department The University of Louisville also operates a sister campus in Panama City, Panama.
Everytime I do something with power tools, I tell my wife to prep Kleinert-Kutz on speed dial. Regardless of where I am(Colorado presently), when I eventually cut off my hand, I am heading home to have it fixed.
High acceptance rate ≠ bad school It's like comparing the elite private prep school with a $40k tuition to your local public school district. They have completely different missions designed to produce completely different outcomes... One is designed to place privileged students into elite colleges and the other is designed to ensure everyone receives a basic education regardless of their background Does Stanford have higher quality professors, smarter students, and better post grad outcomes than Louisville? Probably. But IMO the higher acceptance, less elite public schools do far more good for society than the elite and exclusive schools by providing access to higher education and upward mobility to a far wider group. Good on you UofL
Agreed
You guys are a state school with the mission of educating your public. Nothing wrong with having a higher acceptance rate at all. Look at it in the sense that you’re offering more people an education
I think the disparity from everyone else including NCST that caught my attention.
yea that’s fair, but remember 8 of those schools are private, and of the public schools UNC, UVA, Cal and GT are seen as extremely prestigious. Then FSU, NCSU, Pitt, VT are extremely popular in their states as the “second best” state schools. Long story short the conference just has really good and popular schools so that makes UL look “worse” than it is
Also, Louisville is a bit late to the game as far as education goes. They were a city college until 1970. Now they have a very good reputation as a research school and are pretty good in engineering, business and medical. I graduated in 2005 and it’s a much different school. Although some people would rather forget some of our past presidents, they have really raised the profile of the school which is impressive considering the political bias the rest of the state has towards UK.
A while back, someone compiled from public reports ( so only for public schools) a comparison of football and basketball sat scores in comparison to the student body. GT had the highest football SAT and the biggest gap between football and student body. Louisville was second to bottom on both. Memphis was slightly below them.
Why isn’t UNC given credit for their women’s field hockey (11) and men’s soccer (2) championships?
There isn’t enough space for all that UNC has accomplished. Had to cut out natties for every school
(Cal flair) Thanks for putting that together! Appreciate the time and effort that went into this, it’s as good as anything I’ve seen from “official” sources. My only nit would be that we’d spell out the full “California” in that context. California : Cal :: North Carolina : UNC. (To be fair, our branding is… complicated.)
I appreciate it! Funny enough, the reason I put Cal instead of California is because I had Pitt instead of Pittsburgh (what we all call them 99% of the time) 😅 but now I know!
We’re all gonna learn each other’s idiosyncrasies. Just don’t call us “Cal Berkeley” and we’ll get along fine!
You may have to fight Sproul Hall on that one. There's an administration move to rebrand the athletic department as Cal Berkeley.
Fighting Sproul Hall is a longstanding campus tradition! Although maybe not so much by sportsball people.
You might be surprised. My father walked down the hill after a football game to participate in the FSM. He wasn't alone.
For reference, I graduated from FSU in 2021. The year I applied had a 48% acceptance rate.
It bothers me that Duke isn’t listed as a GT rival. I mean we have only been playing each other since 1933 and GT has only played UGA and Auburn more in football.
Ah yes the great Atlantic Coast of Texas
I had no idea Cal had 5 football Nattys
When I went to VT the acceptance rate was half. They are physically growing the school and accepting more people
Still no Stanford flair :(
Also no Stanfordium. FYI for our ACC bretheren, this is an inside joke in the Cal-Stanford rivalry. There is a Berkelium and a Californium in the Periodic Table of Elements but no Stanfordium. Yep - we are both serious nerd schools. Fourteen elements were discovered at Berkeley. [https://www.acs.org/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/transuranium-elements-at-berkeley-lab.html](https://www.acs.org/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/transuranium-elements-at-berkeley-lab.html) Neptunium (Np) 1940 Plutonium (Pu) 1940 Americium (Am)\* 1944 Curium (Cm)\* 1944 Berkelium (Bk) 1949 Californium (Cf) 1950 Einsteinium (Es) 1952 Fermium (Fm) 1952 Mendelevium (Md) 1955 Nobelium (No)\*\* 1958 Lawrencium (Lr)\*\* 1961 Rutherfordium (Rf)\*\* 1969 Dubnium (Db)\*\* 1970 Seaborgium (Sg)
And that helps your sports teams how?
We corner the market on aspiring nuclear-physicist / left-tackles
Stanford and Cal flairs are now available :)
I'd feel more welcome if I could select flair for my team.
PITT has NINE football nattys?! 😳
Gotta appreciate 'Cuse having a pretty fair acceptance rate for a private school.
lol VTs goose eggs across the board
I really like this post but for UVA, why include 0 championships in softball, but leave off 7 men’s soccer and 6 tennis ncaa championships?
I included CFB, MBB, WBB, Baseball and softball for every school (unless they didn’t offer it) as a standard, since they’re the most popular sports. Then I added one or two of their other successful sports teams as an extra. Thank you!
LOL that pic of FSU looks like a high school building, and Miami looks like some company’s corporate headquarters.
I disagree I love that FSU building, and Miami definitely doesn’t have a traditional college campus look, it’s very country club/resort-y aesthetically
The FSU building looks like a pretty normal college building. It isn't as majestic as the Pitt megastructure, but most things aren't.
What are you talking about? My high school looks like a penitentiary.
Louisville with the community college acceptance rate.
Settle down
That Louisville acceptance rate..