ASU: 19
Stanford: 15
Cal: 14
WSU: 11
Oregon State: 10
Oregon: 9
Zona: 7
Non-BCS
BYU: 15
TCU: 13
Utah: 4
Boise St.: 4
SDSU: 4
Hawaii: 3
East Carolina: 3
Fresno: 3
Southern Miss: 3
CSU: 3
Memphis: 1
Central Florida:0
UNLV: 0
UNR: 0
Big XII
Texas: 45
A&M: 23
Colorado: 21
II. Average Football Attendance, 2006 and 2007 (in thousands)
A second gauge of football power is how many people can you get to your games. This is important not only in terms of success, but marketability as well. The more people who watch the games live probably translates to more people who watch the games on TV.
While they do consistently sellout their stadium, the Pac-10 school with the lowest total attendance is in Pullman, WA with 33,000. The next lowest is Stanford with 40,000.
Pac-10
USC: 89.4
UCLA: 70.6
Cal: 63.7
UW: 62.6
ASU: 58.7
Oregon: 58.6
Zona: 53.9
Oregon State: 41.1
Stanford: 40.5
WSU: 33.3
Non-BCS
BYU: 62.5
Utah: 42.9
Hawaii: 40.0
East Carolina: 39.3
Fresno: 37.4
Central Florida: 37.1
Memphis: 31.0
TCU: 30.9
Boise St: 30.3
SDSU: 28.5
Southern Miss: 27.8
UNLV: 24.2
CSU: 22.9
UNR: 16.9
Big XII
Texas: 85.8
A&M: 79.0
Colorado: 48.2
III. Academics
Next is the much-ballyhooed ‘research institution’ problem. It is widely reported that the Pac-10 will only invite a fellow research school to its ranks. It looks to me like the way the Carnegie Foundation distinguishes research schools is by the number of doctoral programs the school has.
Twenty or more of these programs (JD, MD, PharmD, DPT, etc.) gets you in the Very High research club. Less than 20 gets you in the High Research Club. Some schools on the list have very few or no Doctoral programs.
In the Pac-10, Stanford, USC, Arizona, UCLA, Cal, UW, Oregon State, ASU, Oregon, and WSU are all “Research Universities with Very High Research Activity.”
Among the non-BCS schools, only Utah, Hawaii, and Colorado State are “Research Universities with Very High Research Activity.”
BYU, SDSU, UNLV, UNR, UCF, Memphis, and Southern Miss are “Research Universities with High Research Activity.”
TCU and East Carolina have the Doctoral Research label for some research, while Boise State and Fresno have no Doctoral Research programs and only award Masters Degrees.
All of the Big XII schools are “Research Universities with Very High Research Activity.”
Now, none of this makes any comparison about the undergraduate academic quality of any of these schools. It’s not a matter of average GPA coming in or the number of transfer students going out; it’s not even a matter of how good the Doctoral programs that exist are.
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