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Wait is the ranking for football or Academic Ratings?
US News is an Academic ranking. Stanford is 5th and 7th in AP football ranking, for a combined score of 12. We are 15th in academics and 18th in football for a combined score of 33. Since the US News scores are done for the year, we need to finish ten spots above Stanford in football to beat them. (US News isn't just academics, they have a methodology they use to give an overall ranking of colleges. ND finished in a tie for 15th)
i can't imagine a more ridiculous type of rating. why in the world would they combine a sports rank with an academic rating? as if one had anything to do with the other?
Does it count towards football graduation rate if players leave early for NFL and then come to finish their schooling?
Two things that we are very proud of at ND. The quality of the athletic programs, and the quality of the university. Duke, Stanford, Vanderbilt, northwestern and a few others take both rankings very seriously.