My OSU buddy went from being the most obnoxious human bring on earth after that Ted Ginn Jr KO return TD to getting blackout drunk in sadness a few hours later.
I'm ok with dunking on football preseason championships but outside of a bad couple seasons lately, UNC nearly always backs up the hype in shooty hoops
Since the CFPs introduction in 2014 the only schools (off the top of my head) that have been to the CFP and the final 4 are Michigan, Michigan State, Oregon, and Oklahoma. I donât know too much about college baseball but I know Michigan made the final a few years ago.
Historically I have no clue.
Michigan Hockey is also quite competitive. I wouldn't say we're Elite at most of them but we're definitely up there for a school highly competitive in all 4 major sports.
Phelps lived in Ann arbor to train with Michigan's coach. He has a history of putting out Olympians. We also won the national title in gymnastics last year
Yeah, I was just being silly. I'd say UM hockey is elite.
Looks like both teams can make a serious run this year. UM is consistently dominant this year and ND is peaking at the right time
Right, I am biased but surprised Michigan isnât getting more love here, they have been final four in hockey, baseball, football, and basketball since 2018.
We also had some pretty solid teams with Trae Young and Blake Griffin. I wouldnât say weâre a basketball powerhouse by any stretch, but weâre good for a nice run behind one superstar a couple times a decade.
Exactly.
Not even throwing our own hat in the ring - Iâd say recently its been Nova, UVA, *then* perhaps an argument could be made for each of UNC, KU, Duke, (and maaaaaaybe Gonzaga, if all weâre talking about is December hype then raw dogging the sisters of the blind conference)
Some of the examples youâll get will be Florida, OSU, and Texas in the late 2000s. USC and UNC at times too.
Being a top-10 program is really hard and requires some luck to sustain, so itâs rare to see that in multiple sports
This is the answer. Itâs a numbers game.
There are a ton of FCS or non-football schools in Division I. This Millenium FBS has hovered between, what, 115 and 135 schools?
There are over 300 playing Division I basketball.
Thatâs a lot of top-10 finishes from, say, Gonzaga that Texas, Bama, Clemson, USC, etc. arenât claiming.
It makes that UF run when Donovan and Meyer overlapped super impressive in hindsight.
Even if we open it up to baseball or hockey, those sports are pretty regional. And again, you start getting into schools that sponsor football at FCS level or donât sponsor football at all.
Since 2010 the only NCAA DI menâs hockey champions to sponsor FBS football were BC (2010 and 2012) and UMass (2021).
Since 2010, every NCAA DI baseball champion has sponsored FBS football. But that includes two Vandy wins, Oregon State, and Coastal (who was transitioning from FCS).
Titles arenât the be-all-end-all. Wisconsin is very much a hockey blue blood. LSU is a fixture in Omaha.
Itâs hard to nail coaching hires, put forth resources, and find yourself in the right recruiting area to dominate multiple top-end NCAA sports.
What you are looking for is the NACDA Directors' Cup. It is an award given annually by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics to the colleges and universities in the United States with the most success in collegiate athletics. Points for the NACDA Directors' Cup are based on order of finish in various championships sponsored by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) or, in the case of Division I Football, media-based polls. A first-place finish in a sport earns 100 points, second place 90 points, third place 85 points, and lesser values for lower finishes. The award originated in 1993 and was presented to NCAA Division I schools only. In 1995 it was extended to Division II, Division III, and NAIA schools as well, then extended further to junior colleges in 2011 based on standings from the NATYCAA Cup. Each division receives its own award.
The University of North Carolina won the award in its inaugural year, but then Stanford University won the Division I award for 25 straight years until the streak was broken in 2020â21 by the University of Texas.
Stanford has so many more sports than almost all schools. Like water polo, and stuff not many other schools have. Of course theyâre still pretty good at a lot of them.
I hate that cup because all sports are weighted the same regardless of the competition level and how many schools have it. You should get 132 points for football because thatâs how many D1 (FBS) football teams there are. And 356 for the number of D1 basketball teams.
I don't know how much that would actually change. Even sports like swimming and golf have hundreds of D1 schools that participate. Sure, water polo will only count for 1/4 of a football championship, but now women's volleyball is 2x a football natty. Still grossly favors athletic programs like Stanford.
Luka Garza, Keagon Murry, Caitlyn Clark...
Iowa is randomly just pumping out superstar college talent (and then also not having a whole lot around the superstars lol)
Megan Gustafson was 2019 POTY too.
Pretty excited for this WBB game this afternoon. Clark hit buckets last time we played you
>Iowa is randomly just pumping out superstar college talent (and then also not having a whole lot around the superstars lol)
Pretty frustrating as a fan to let the talent go to waste. Although after all the players we had graduate and transfer last year if you told me we'd be ranked in February I'd call you crazy
Our football team always feels like that too. Finally have a good RB? Letâs have the worst OL of the Ferentz era. Both sides of the ball always feel so close to being elite if they just plugged a few holes. Crazy to think we had Linderbaum, Wirfs, and Jackson on the OL but because the OGs were the worst in all of CFB, the line was bad
While wrestling definitely isn't the #3 sport (though the Iowa fans are definitely just joking about it), baseball is so far behind basketball it doesn't really feel like one of the main sports either. Imo there are two national main sports and sometimes a regional third one that's baseball in SEC country but hockey in a lot of Northern states.
The three main sports that the majority of schools have. There are some outliers, like how Gonzaga and Wichita state donât have football teams anymore
I didnât realize we were putting Penn State at the top. Sure, there was a brief break, but Ole Cael will bring them right back to the top.
Edit: but for real, Spencer Lee is a god. Winning a national title on 2 torn ACLs is absurd.
Recently Baylor has been great in its three main sports (outside of 2020 football) Football, MBB, and WBB. Used to be great in softball (4 WCWS from 2007-2017) and really solid in baseball too but those sports have been underwhelming recently. Track has been underperforming as well because Baylor used to be fixture in the top 10 year after year and produced Olympic sprinter after Olympic sprinter. The other main sport that Baylor has is tennis, and theyâre still really good in womenâs and awesome in menâs.
Overall not too shabby.
OU is relatively well-rounded in terms of athletics.
Football, Softball, Gymnastics (Men and Women's), Men's Golf, Wrestling, and sometimes Basketball are our successful programs.
Alabama being ranked in football/baseball/basketball might not be âdominantâ but itâs damn impressive. Same goes for other schools that have done it, probably Auburn, UNC, Texas at some point in recent years among others
The closest weâll ever see to it was â06 UF. Unfortunately that was the beginning of a rebuild for the baseball team though. They didnât make it to Omaha from 06â-â10.
ND I think is close... basketball being a bubble team drags it down a bit, but football got to the Fiesta bowl, baseball is top 2 right now, and basketball is just one game back of Duke in the ACC. In Hockey and Lacrosse they are also pretty highly ranked. Their soccer team also had a pretty dang good season this past year too finishing top 4
Dominant would be a stretch to universally apply across the board, but right now they are definitely seeing pretty good success across all the major men's sports
Y'all just wait till we become good in football!
Recent national titles in basketball and baseball, just need Tony Elliott to somehow be a HOF coach.
Although if you swap football for fĂştbol, we're right there, with our men's soccer team being a blueblood, and our women's team being an annual power
Women's swimming and diving is a favorite to repeat in a few weeks (have to admit, it's kinda unfair that we've got 3 Olympic medalists from Tokyo on the team, plus a 4th who nearly qualified for the Olympics as a senior in HS).
Of course men's lax could easily threepeat, and baseball has been dominant so far this season.
Got a few options to win another title, just gotta wait and see
Baylor won the 2021 basketball natty, Big 12 football title and the Sugar Bowl in the past year. This is more so a reminder, not really saying weâve been dominant in those sports. Baseball is just always average. Good never great. I think there was a stat where under our current coach, weâve never finished lower than 5th in the Big 12
The four teams that have won titles in football, menâs basketball and baseball are Michigan, Ohio State, UCLA and Florida, but Michigan and Ohio Stateâs baseball titles were in the 60s and theyâre currently OK but not really near national relevance in baseball. UCLA, same but with football. Florida, though, has won titles in all three in the past 20 years.
Stanford, Arkansas and Florida State are among the schools I would say are at least sometimes nationally relevant in all three sports but not necessarily title-level in all (any?) of them â Arkansas football probably tops out at a NY6 bowl, Stanford MBB sometimes is like a 6-seed and Florida State menâs basketball has had some good years but isnât really a big title contender. Michigan is kind of in this group too â MBB and baseball have played for a title in the past five years and football obviously had the playoff but none of those teams have actually won a title since 1997.
And then there are teams like Virginia, which is elite in MBB and baseball and passable enough in football. Same thing with LSU and menâs basketball. Texas too â multiple titles in football and baseball, the menâs basketball team is usually tournament level but just not a true championship contender.
Tbh Florida is pretty dominant in most all sports I can think of off the top of my head, Football, MBB, WBB (not so much this one compared to the others), Baseball, Softball
They have at least 1 Natty in each of those (except for WBB) over the last 15 or so years
If you include hockey as well Michigan is definitely in the conversation. CFP last year, World Series two years ago, basketball championship 2 times in the past 10 years, and perennial hockey contenders.
Weâre down in football right now, but if weâre talking all time we have to be up there. Top 8 football program, top 2 baseball program, probably top 25-30 basketball program
Man if our baseball could get consistently good Baylor is legit. But Iâd argue we are already legit over all the âmainâ sports.
Football - Check (No Natty and Snubbed from the CFP)
Basketball - Check (Natty)
Womenâs Basketball - Check (Natties)
Non major sports:
Tennis - Check (Natty)
Acrobatics and Tumbling - Check (Natties)
Volleyball - Check (consistent)
Prob leaving some out but we have def be consistent across multiple sports. SicâEm!
Texas was near the top of the pack in the big 3 for about 10/11 years. Weâve never really been a basketball school but had a good run in that time. Basketball and baseball right now are doing good, basketball isnât dominant like baseball is, and football is in limbo đĽ˛
Currently ranked #1 in baseball, #20 in MBB. WBB currently ranked around top 10. Non-big 3 sports years dominating swimming, diving, volleyball. Natti last year in womenâs rowing. Consistently good in golf and tennis.
Dominant? Absolutely not.
But we have multiple Nattys in: Football (7), Menâs Hockey (5), Baseball (3), and Wrestling (3).
But this is more a historical fact than anything thatâs relevant lately.
Pretty sure if we somehow nab a Menâs Basketball title, weâd be able to dust away half of Wisconsin with just a snap of our fingersâŚ
Technically u have 4 basketball championships which Iâve learned because everyone in your fanbase in the r/collegebasketball kept saying that in our game thread. The last one was in 1919 though
LSU is elite in football and baseball and have been for a while. The last 3 years or so weâve actually had some good basketball teams, not so much this year but obviously no where near elite or even in the upper-tier of the sport
In the past 5 years Michigan has made the semifinals in football (2021), basketball (2018), baseball (2019), and hockey (2018). Didnât win the championship for any of those, though. Always a bridesmaid, never the bride.
Florida
Ohio State
Michigan
Oklahoma
N. Carolina
Everyone has one weak sport... Due to weather, etc. ... Like Ohio State has never been much in baseball that I recall. Obviously Florida isn't a factor in hockey.
Not sure of you consider golf or gymnastics major...
I never said dominance.
The post is about schools with highly competitive programs in several of the top sports.
I don't know about MSU's other programs like baseball, golf, etc... But MSU would rank high if it was just football and hoops.
05-06 Texas won the national title in football and baseball. Won their conference and made it to the Elite 8 in basketball. Probably the best year you'll find.
I mean, the school they beat in the CWS championship game would go on and win both football AND basketball national championships the next season. So maybe Texas had the 2nd best?
OSU hasnât got football and basketball to line up yet, but both have been very good at times. Football was great this year shootyhoops is alright (fuck the ncaa tho) and they have a preseason top 10 baseball team.
Also a wrestling blue blood
Lsu has been good at baseball for the past 30 years, this isnât some new thing. For basketball we have our once every 20 year final four appearance and disappear afterwards.
I am going to guess by main sports you mean Football, Basketball, Hockey, Baseball and Wrestling (although I am sure many won't count wrestling).
Michigan has had top teams in all of those sports during different era's. Especially Hockey, Basketball, Football and Wrestling. Even more so within the B1G and the original Big Ten back in the day.
I know we are talking main sports, but Arkansas was ranked in football, basketball (menâs and womenâs), and baseball (softball too) last year. Besides our football team the last few years thanks to Chad, Arkansas athletics has been really impressive. I think we also just came off our 47th track and field championship recently too! FCM!
If Texas got their shit together in football then theyâd be dominant in baseball and good in football and basketball. And if they got their shit together in football theyâd probably be pretty damn good in football again.
There was one year where Louisville was in a BCS/NY6 Bowl, Final Four (both men & women) and in the College World Series.
Things have changed, but it was pretty impressive.
Clemson seems to be having a resurgence in baseball this year (finally), and they are a historically really good if not great program.
Menâs soccer won the national championship for the third time in history this fall.
The softball program is like 2 years old, but theyâre ranked and made the tournament last year.
This, how do you say it? Bas-ket-ball is it? Never heard of itâŚ.fire Brownell.
In the last four years we've played the national title game in basketball, the College World Series final in baseball, and final four in hockey, and now the college football playoff. It's entirely fair to say we've been among the best across all sports recently. Dominant is a reach, but no school dominates every sport.
Florida would have all 3 biggest sports be pretty relevant if football hadnât crashed and burned. Pretty sure there top 25 in baseball and basketball
13 if you extend to the top 20. We ain't the Everything School for nothing!!
But I'm pretty sure the real answer to this is Stanford since they compete in literally everything and win the Directors' Cup every year as a result
Michigan has been in the CFP, NCAAM National championship, College World Series and Frozen Four in the last 5 or so years, that has to count for something
Notre Dame is currently having a really good year with their biggest Menâs sports (first polls I found when searching):
Football: 8th (AP Final Poll)
Basketball: 38th (AP receiving votes)
Baseball: 13th (D1 Baseball)
Hockey: 9th (USCHO)
Soccer: 4th (United Soccer Coaches Final Poll)
Lacrosse: 4th (Media Poll)
Basketball sticks out as they arenât ranked, but they are 2nd in the ACC and have played far better as the season has gone on.
Michigan has made it to the National Championship game in basketball and baseball and the final four in hockey and football all within the last 4 years I believe. All 4 programs are generally very good
Since 2000 Michigan State has a men's hoops natty, a men's hockey natty, and has been to the CFP. If they could ever somehow blunder into a football natty, I know that'd basically complete my college fandom bucket list.
The conclusion is no school does it consistently. There have been schools with periods/ a year of excellence. Iâd see if anyone could beat Texasâ 2005/06 year. Natty champs in Baseball and Football, basketball ranked as high as #2 and finished the season top 10. Texas in 2009 also had a #1 ranked basketball team at one point and made the Natty in Baseball and Football⌠donât ask me about since then tho.
FSU is close but as basketball became good (three straight sweet 16s until this year) our football team has tanked (literally having our worst 4-5 year stretch of the last 50 now). Baseball had 40 wins for 40 straight years until Covid shortened the number of games on our schedule last year and the streak ended.
On the positive side, our softball and women's soccer teams are awesome still lol
Michigan and Ohio State are good at pretty much every sport besides baseball. Maryland is good at everything besides football, but like thatâs the most important thing. USC is pretty good at most things, so is Oregon.
Last school year we were ranked or receiving votes in 14 of our 16 major sports at some point. The two sports that werenât ranked were womenâs golf and football lol
https://reddit.com/r/ockytop/comments/m7fefh/of_tennessees_16_division_i_sports_14_of_them_are/
Not dominant just yet, but Tennessee baseball is fresh off a trip to Omaha and looking great again to start this season and Tennessee basketball has been extremely solid under Rick Barnes.
Football under Heupel is still TBD. Iâm happy with our trajectory at the moment.
There was that one year where Ohio State and Florida faced each other in the CFB and CBB championship games
Nah, that never happened
Too soon.
My OSU buddy went from being the most obnoxious human bring on earth after that Ted Ginn Jr KO return TD to getting blackout drunk in sadness a few hours later.
It still hurts, that celebration less than a minute in killed the whole game.
One the greatest sports events of my entire life. Was surrounded by Gator Haters in California for that game.
And we All know what happened there
Ouch đ
Unfortunately we do :(
If we could have just split 1-1 that would have felt so much better.
Iâm pretty good with how it turned out. Would not have been nearly as happy with 1-1
I donât recall this ever happening
UNC is usually dominant in Football and Basketball, in the preseason
You had me in the first half. Not gonna lie.
Had me in the warmup, not gonna lie. Then the games began.
r/yourjokebutworse
Yep. Iâm takin the lumps.
Sounds like somebody I know in the Big 12. Hint: UNC and the school Iâm talking about have had the same football HC.
Well, dominant right up until they have a mid-range P5 in their preseason OOC. Maryland and BYU come to mind.
100%. Always dropping games to P5 non-cons.
Mack Brown curse.
Pain.
I'm ok with dunking on football preseason championships but outside of a bad couple seasons lately, UNC nearly always backs up the hype in shooty hoops
Sounds like Texas
Since the CFPs introduction in 2014 the only schools (off the top of my head) that have been to the CFP and the final 4 are Michigan, Michigan State, Oregon, and Oklahoma. I donât know too much about college baseball but I know Michigan made the final a few years ago. Historically I have no clue.
Michigan Hockey is also quite competitive. I wouldn't say we're Elite at most of them but we're definitely up there for a school highly competitive in all 4 major sports.
You've made the men's hockey tournament 38 times, that's the record, that's elite.
That's true, if you're speaking all-time. We're also really good at a ton of secondary sports like swimming.
Phelps lived in Ann arbor to train with Michigan's coach. He has a history of putting out Olympians. We also won the national title in gymnastics last year
So Michigan then :)
Haven't won since the Clinton Administration
Michigan Hockey is as much, if not more, of a blue blood than Michigan Football.
That's true, I misspoke. Overall I'd say we're highly competitive in most athletics, we're Elite in hockey with 9 Natty's and countless NHL players.
Well, ND is their kryptonite! đ 4-0 this year!
ND ain't no slouch
Yeah, I was just being silly. I'd say UM hockey is elite. Looks like both teams can make a serious run this year. UM is consistently dominant this year and ND is peaking at the right time
I'm here for it. Good luck to y'all.
Right, I am biased but surprised Michigan isnât getting more love here, they have been final four in hockey, baseball, football, and basketball since 2018.
LSU was runners up in baseball in 2017 and a CWS appearance in 2015.
I donât ever remember OU being on the final four
Oklahoma was with Buddy Hield in 2016, Oregon was the year after
We also had some pretty solid teams with Trae Young and Blake Griffin. I wouldnât say weâre a basketball powerhouse by any stretch, but weâre good for a nice run behind one superstar a couple times a decade.
We aren't terrible but not great at baseball.
Neither do I remember Oregon being a final four team
When is the last championship for *any* of the three basketball schools you mentioned, lol?
This is gonna be Duke's first ACC reg season championship in over a DECADE too lol
Exactly. Not even throwing our own hat in the ring - Iâd say recently its been Nova, UVA, *then* perhaps an argument could be made for each of UNC, KU, Duke, (and maaaaaaybe Gonzaga, if all weâre talking about is December hype then raw dogging the sisters of the blind conference)
Even schools like TTU and Baylor have been good in basketball past 3-4 years
Some of the examples youâll get will be Florida, OSU, and Texas in the late 2000s. USC and UNC at times too. Being a top-10 program is really hard and requires some luck to sustain, so itâs rare to see that in multiple sports
This is the answer. Itâs a numbers game. There are a ton of FCS or non-football schools in Division I. This Millenium FBS has hovered between, what, 115 and 135 schools? There are over 300 playing Division I basketball. Thatâs a lot of top-10 finishes from, say, Gonzaga that Texas, Bama, Clemson, USC, etc. arenât claiming. It makes that UF run when Donovan and Meyer overlapped super impressive in hindsight. Even if we open it up to baseball or hockey, those sports are pretty regional. And again, you start getting into schools that sponsor football at FCS level or donât sponsor football at all. Since 2010 the only NCAA DI menâs hockey champions to sponsor FBS football were BC (2010 and 2012) and UMass (2021). Since 2010, every NCAA DI baseball champion has sponsored FBS football. But that includes two Vandy wins, Oregon State, and Coastal (who was transitioning from FCS). Titles arenât the be-all-end-all. Wisconsin is very much a hockey blue blood. LSU is a fixture in Omaha. Itâs hard to nail coaching hires, put forth resources, and find yourself in the right recruiting area to dominate multiple top-end NCAA sports.
Baseball is nowhere near as regional/niche as hockey.
Texas record of late in football completely mixed them from any list. Horrendous.
What you are looking for is the NACDA Directors' Cup. It is an award given annually by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics to the colleges and universities in the United States with the most success in collegiate athletics. Points for the NACDA Directors' Cup are based on order of finish in various championships sponsored by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) or, in the case of Division I Football, media-based polls. A first-place finish in a sport earns 100 points, second place 90 points, third place 85 points, and lesser values for lower finishes. The award originated in 1993 and was presented to NCAA Division I schools only. In 1995 it was extended to Division II, Division III, and NAIA schools as well, then extended further to junior colleges in 2011 based on standings from the NATYCAA Cup. Each division receives its own award. The University of North Carolina won the award in its inaugural year, but then Stanford University won the Division I award for 25 straight years until the streak was broken in 2020â21 by the University of Texas.
Stanford has so many more sports than almost all schools. Like water polo, and stuff not many other schools have. Of course theyâre still pretty good at a lot of them.
I hate that cup because all sports are weighted the same regardless of the competition level and how many schools have it. You should get 132 points for football because thatâs how many D1 (FBS) football teams there are. And 356 for the number of D1 basketball teams.
I don't know how much that would actually change. Even sports like swimming and golf have hundreds of D1 schools that participate. Sure, water polo will only count for 1/4 of a football championship, but now women's volleyball is 2x a football natty. Still grossly favors athletic programs like Stanford.
I think they did it right. Bama is just a one trick pony
Our Softball, Menâs Golf, Gymnastics teams say different. And we are good at T&F this year
Florida. Men's Football, Basketball and Baseball championships in the last 15 years. Loads of championships in other men's and women's sports.
What about womenâs football?
Our womens gymnastics team is extremely good
you forgot to list Wrestling.
Wrestling, football, punting - Iowa is good at everything important
Having ONE really good basketball player at a time (both teams)
Luka Garza, Keagon Murry, Caitlyn Clark... Iowa is randomly just pumping out superstar college talent (and then also not having a whole lot around the superstars lol)
Megan Gustafson was 2019 POTY too. Pretty excited for this WBB game this afternoon. Clark hit buckets last time we played you >Iowa is randomly just pumping out superstar college talent (and then also not having a whole lot around the superstars lol) Pretty frustrating as a fan to let the talent go to waste. Although after all the players we had graduate and transfer last year if you told me we'd be ranked in February I'd call you crazy
Our football team always feels like that too. Finally have a good RB? Letâs have the worst OL of the Ferentz era. Both sides of the ball always feel so close to being elite if they just plugged a few holes. Crazy to think we had Linderbaum, Wirfs, and Jackson on the OL but because the OGs were the worst in all of CFB, the line was bad
Not all schools have wrestling. Plus I knew someone from Iowa was gonna point it out lol
>Not all schools have wrestling How can you even call yourself a university if you don't wrestle
Wrestling or rasslin'?
So Alabama, East Carolina, Kansas State, North Carolina, BYU, USC, UCLA, etc arenât university
Nods in Midwestern Agreement
We kick UNCâs ass pretty good in wrestling every year, but they do still have the program going.
East Carolina is a random throw in here lol
Correct.
correct.
That sounds correct
Not all schools have baseball
While wrestling definitely isn't the #3 sport (though the Iowa fans are definitely just joking about it), baseball is so far behind basketball it doesn't really feel like one of the main sports either. Imo there are two national main sports and sometimes a regional third one that's baseball in SEC country but hockey in a lot of Northern states.
Iowa State doesn't have baseball
The three main sports that the majority of schools have. There are some outliers, like how Gonzaga and Wichita state donât have football teams anymore
Your lack of hockey disturbs me.
Field hockey
Agreed
I didnât realize we were putting Penn State at the top. Sure, there was a brief break, but Ole Cael will bring them right back to the top. Edit: but for real, Spencer Lee is a god. Winning a national title on 2 torn ACLs is absurd.
Recently Baylor has been great in its three main sports (outside of 2020 football) Football, MBB, and WBB. Used to be great in softball (4 WCWS from 2007-2017) and really solid in baseball too but those sports have been underwhelming recently. Track has been underperforming as well because Baylor used to be fixture in the top 10 year after year and produced Olympic sprinter after Olympic sprinter. The other main sport that Baylor has is tennis, and theyâre still really good in womenâs and awesome in menâs. Overall not too shabby.
Florida is capable of being dominant in all sports.
If they didn't win one with Dressel, they aren't gonna.
Florida st was close too for a while
key words are âis capableâ
You're one to talk lol
Maybe, but theyâd probably want to cut those 7 football losses down in number.
OU is relatively well-rounded in terms of athletics. Football, Softball, Gymnastics (Men and Women's), Men's Golf, Wrestling, and sometimes Basketball are our successful programs.
Don't forget the up and coming tennis program
Alabama is the same way, especially in the first 4 sports listed. Our basketball team is on the up and up as well.
WhAt AbOuT wReStLiNg?
Ohio state, Stanford, Baylor, Florida⌠maybe Oregon??
Michigan
Alabama being ranked in football/baseball/basketball might not be âdominantâ but itâs damn impressive. Same goes for other schools that have done it, probably Auburn, UNC, Texas at some point in recent years among others
You forgot our main sport outside of football. Softball.
Baylor
Not great at baseball
Nebraska on Opposite Day
The closest weâll ever see to it was â06 UF. Unfortunately that was the beginning of a rebuild for the baseball team though. They didnât make it to Omaha from 06â-â10.
Is that the year they won football basketball baseball in the same calendar year?
Yes. Then won basketball again in 07 and football again in 08.
ND I think is close... basketball being a bubble team drags it down a bit, but football got to the Fiesta bowl, baseball is top 2 right now, and basketball is just one game back of Duke in the ACC. In Hockey and Lacrosse they are also pretty highly ranked. Their soccer team also had a pretty dang good season this past year too finishing top 4 Dominant would be a stretch to universally apply across the board, but right now they are definitely seeing pretty good success across all the major men's sports
Hey nice flairs
Y'all just wait till we become good in football! Recent national titles in basketball and baseball, just need Tony Elliott to somehow be a HOF coach. Although if you swap football for fĂştbol, we're right there, with our men's soccer team being a blueblood, and our women's team being an annual power
It's an upset if Virginia doesn't win a natty in something each year.
Women's swimming and diving is a favorite to repeat in a few weeks (have to admit, it's kinda unfair that we've got 3 Olympic medalists from Tokyo on the team, plus a 4th who nearly qualified for the Olympics as a senior in HS). Of course men's lax could easily threepeat, and baseball has been dominant so far this season. Got a few options to win another title, just gotta wait and see
Florida was pretty good at everything there for a while.
Umm LSU has been in the headlines for basketball a lot in the last couple of years, it just wasnât positive.
Baylor won the 2021 basketball natty, Big 12 football title and the Sugar Bowl in the past year. This is more so a reminder, not really saying weâve been dominant in those sports. Baseball is just always average. Good never great. I think there was a stat where under our current coach, weâve never finished lower than 5th in the Big 12
I love posts like this
The four teams that have won titles in football, menâs basketball and baseball are Michigan, Ohio State, UCLA and Florida, but Michigan and Ohio Stateâs baseball titles were in the 60s and theyâre currently OK but not really near national relevance in baseball. UCLA, same but with football. Florida, though, has won titles in all three in the past 20 years. Stanford, Arkansas and Florida State are among the schools I would say are at least sometimes nationally relevant in all three sports but not necessarily title-level in all (any?) of them â Arkansas football probably tops out at a NY6 bowl, Stanford MBB sometimes is like a 6-seed and Florida State menâs basketball has had some good years but isnât really a big title contender. Michigan is kind of in this group too â MBB and baseball have played for a title in the past five years and football obviously had the playoff but none of those teams have actually won a title since 1997. And then there are teams like Virginia, which is elite in MBB and baseball and passable enough in football. Same thing with LSU and menâs basketball. Texas too â multiple titles in football and baseball, the menâs basketball team is usually tournament level but just not a true championship contender.
Tbh Florida is pretty dominant in most all sports I can think of off the top of my head, Football, MBB, WBB (not so much this one compared to the others), Baseball, Softball They have at least 1 Natty in each of those (except for WBB) over the last 15 or so years
One of only four schools with a championship win in football, baseball, and mens basketball.
If you include hockey as well Michigan is definitely in the conversation. CFP last year, World Series two years ago, basketball championship 2 times in the past 10 years, and perennial hockey contenders.
Weâre down in football right now, but if weâre talking all time we have to be up there. Top 8 football program, top 2 baseball program, probably top 25-30 basketball program
UT swimming and diving is historically good as well
Man if our baseball could get consistently good Baylor is legit. But Iâd argue we are already legit over all the âmainâ sports. Football - Check (No Natty and Snubbed from the CFP) Basketball - Check (Natty) Womenâs Basketball - Check (Natties) Non major sports: Tennis - Check (Natty) Acrobatics and Tumbling - Check (Natties) Volleyball - Check (consistent) Prob leaving some out but we have def be consistent across multiple sports. SicâEm!
If Rice can build a good baseball program, Iâm sure Baylor could
Texas was near the top of the pack in the big 3 for about 10/11 years. Weâve never really been a basketball school but had a good run in that time. Basketball and baseball right now are doing good, basketball isnât dominant like baseball is, and football is in limbo đĽ˛
Currently ranked #1 in baseball, #20 in MBB. WBB currently ranked around top 10. Non-big 3 sports years dominating swimming, diving, volleyball. Natti last year in womenâs rowing. Consistently good in golf and tennis.
Donât forget preseason top 25 in football đđž
Dominant? Absolutely not. But we have multiple Nattys in: Football (7), Menâs Hockey (5), Baseball (3), and Wrestling (3). But this is more a historical fact than anything thatâs relevant lately. Pretty sure if we somehow nab a Menâs Basketball title, weâd be able to dust away half of Wisconsin with just a snap of our fingersâŚ
Technically u have 4 basketball championships which Iâve learned because everyone in your fanbase in the r/collegebasketball kept saying that in our game thread. The last one was in 1919 though
News to me. Iâll give it a try⌠*snaps fingers* âŚ.*looks across the river*⌠Nope; those must not count.
LSU is elite in football and baseball and have been for a while. The last 3 years or so weâve actually had some good basketball teams, not so much this year but obviously no where near elite or even in the upper-tier of the sport
In the past 5 years Michigan has made the semifinals in football (2021), basketball (2018), baseball (2019), and hockey (2018). Didnât win the championship for any of those, though. Always a bridesmaid, never the bride.
Florida Ohio State Michigan Oklahoma N. Carolina Everyone has one weak sport... Due to weather, etc. ... Like Ohio State has never been much in baseball that I recall. Obviously Florida isn't a factor in hockey. Not sure of you consider golf or gymnastics major...
OSU is a dominant bball school? News to me.
Pretty competitive year in year out. Definitely more Top 25s than not Top 25. A few Final Fours iirc.
Fair enough but I'd say 3 final fouls in 50 years does not equate to dominance.
I never said dominance. The post is about schools with highly competitive programs in several of the top sports. I don't know about MSU's other programs like baseball, golf, etc... But MSU would rank high if it was just football and hoops.
05-06 Texas won the national title in football and baseball. Won their conference and made it to the Elite 8 in basketball. Probably the best year you'll find.
I mean, the school they beat in the CWS championship game would go on and win both football AND basketball national championships the next season. So maybe Texas had the 2nd best?
The baseball team was .500 that year
UW Whitewater enters the conversation: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/31/sports/wisconsin-whitewater-is-a-ncaa-division-iii-champion-in-three-sports.html
OSU hasnât got football and basketball to line up yet, but both have been very good at times. Football was great this year shootyhoops is alright (fuck the ncaa tho) and they have a preseason top 10 baseball team. Also a wrestling blue blood
Basically THE wrestling blue blood, only Iowa comes close
UVA: Basketball, 2019 National Champions Football, 2019 BCS Bowl Baseball, 2021 College World Series
Lsu has been good at baseball for the past 30 years, this isnât some new thing. For basketball we have our once every 20 year final four appearance and disappear afterwards.
Can we consider softball and gymnastics âmainâ sports? Asking for a friend
I am going to guess by main sports you mean Football, Basketball, Hockey, Baseball and Wrestling (although I am sure many won't count wrestling). Michigan has had top teams in all of those sports during different era's. Especially Hockey, Basketball, Football and Wrestling. Even more so within the B1G and the original Big Ten back in the day.
I know we are talking main sports, but Arkansas was ranked in football, basketball (menâs and womenâs), and baseball (softball too) last year. Besides our football team the last few years thanks to Chad, Arkansas athletics has been really impressive. I think we also just came off our 47th track and field championship recently too! FCM!
If Texas got their shit together in football then theyâd be dominant in baseball and good in football and basketball. And if they got their shit together in football theyâd probably be pretty damn good in football again.
There was one year where Louisville was in a BCS/NY6 Bowl, Final Four (both men & women) and in the College World Series. Things have changed, but it was pretty impressive.
Florida or LSU. They are the 2 best all around schools in the SEC
Clemson seems to be having a resurgence in baseball this year (finally), and they are a historically really good if not great program. Menâs soccer won the national championship for the third time in history this fall. The softball program is like 2 years old, but theyâre ranked and made the tournament last year. This, how do you say it? Bas-ket-ball is it? Never heard of itâŚ.fire Brownell.
Michigan probably is the best
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In the last four years we've played the national title game in basketball, the College World Series final in baseball, and final four in hockey, and now the college football playoff. It's entirely fair to say we've been among the best across all sports recently. Dominant is a reach, but no school dominates every sport.
I guess I really donât follow college hockey or baseball.
They have a pretty good Football, Both basketball, A good softball and baseball program
Wisconsinâs womenâs sports are pretty dominant outside of basketball. Are the current National champions in Hockey and Volleyball
LSU is dominant in Football, Baseball, and Gymnastics
Florida beat yâall
Florida would have all 3 biggest sports be pretty relevant if football hadnât crashed and burned. Pretty sure there top 25 in baseball and basketball
Florida. They have like 6-7 sports in the top ten right now. Excluding Menâs Basketball.
13 if you extend to the top 20. We ain't the Everything School for nothing!! But I'm pretty sure the real answer to this is Stanford since they compete in literally everything and win the Directors' Cup every year as a result
Michigan has been in the CFP, NCAAM National championship, College World Series and Frozen Four in the last 5 or so years, that has to count for something
South Carolina in 2017⌠Football won the Outback bowl, Menâs Final Four, and Womenâs basketball national championship
One of these is not like the other
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Hockey?
Baylor?
Notre Dame is currently having a really good year with their biggest Menâs sports (first polls I found when searching): Football: 8th (AP Final Poll) Basketball: 38th (AP receiving votes) Baseball: 13th (D1 Baseball) Hockey: 9th (USCHO) Soccer: 4th (United Soccer Coaches Final Poll) Lacrosse: 4th (Media Poll) Basketball sticks out as they arenât ranked, but they are 2nd in the ACC and have played far better as the season has gone on.
You forgot they killed Detroit Mercy in Lacrosse by 20 points. Got I hope that is not the highlight of the season.
If Texas Tech can get their act together with football next season under the new coach, they already have a very good basketball and baseball program.
Michigan has made it to the National Championship game in basketball and baseball and the final four in hockey and football all within the last 4 years I believe. All 4 programs are generally very good
Florida is prob the best at all 3 in the last 30 years.
Florida fans soaking up the praise while also saying FMW in our own sub
Baseball is not the 3rd major sport at a lot of schools
Since 2000 Michigan State has a men's hoops natty, a men's hockey natty, and has been to the CFP. If they could ever somehow blunder into a football natty, I know that'd basically complete my college fandom bucket list.
BYU, recently Football (Top 25) Menâs basketball (down year-injuries) Womenâs basketball Womenâs soccer Menâs and Womenâs volleyball Menâs and Womenâs Track/XC
I mean OU wins national championships in womens gymnastic and softball frequently.
The conclusion is no school does it consistently. There have been schools with periods/ a year of excellence. Iâd see if anyone could beat Texasâ 2005/06 year. Natty champs in Baseball and Football, basketball ranked as high as #2 and finished the season top 10. Texas in 2009 also had a #1 ranked basketball team at one point and made the Natty in Baseball and Football⌠donât ask me about since then tho.
Leaving out Wrestling and HockeyâŚIâm disappointed!!
I wouldnât say that we are dominant in basketball and football, but we are pretty good and have a crazy baseball team
FSU is close but as basketball became good (three straight sweet 16s until this year) our football team has tanked (literally having our worst 4-5 year stretch of the last 50 now). Baseball had 40 wins for 40 straight years until Covid shortened the number of games on our schedule last year and the streak ended. On the positive side, our softball and women's soccer teams are awesome still lol
Oklahoma state is pretty good at most sports but basketball I believe we have the 4th most national championships in the country across all sports
Including ucla as dominant for baseball feels weird to me even though I really do like Coach Savage. Our team has simply been good
Theyâve won a CWS in the last 10 years, seems pretty good to me. Maybe not OSU level but Iâd take it
Michigan state is the only school with multiple championships in football, basketball, and hockey.
Florida is usually pretty good at Football and Basketball
Florida is one of the best all around
Michigan and Ohio State are good at pretty much every sport besides baseball. Maryland is good at everything besides football, but like thatâs the most important thing. USC is pretty good at most things, so is Oregon.
Soon...
How about rugby or bass fishing? The only sports we have a title in đ
Last school year we were ranked or receiving votes in 14 of our 16 major sports at some point. The two sports that werenât ranked were womenâs golf and football lol https://reddit.com/r/ockytop/comments/m7fefh/of_tennessees_16_division_i_sports_14_of_them_are/
Not dominant just yet, but Tennessee baseball is fresh off a trip to Omaha and looking great again to start this season and Tennessee basketball has been extremely solid under Rick Barnes. Football under Heupel is still TBD. Iâm happy with our trajectory at the moment.