Texas Tops Power Four College Sports Rankings for
Get the Sports newsletter
Daily sports — scores, transfers, the storylines from the leagues you actually follow. Free.
- Texas finished No. 1 by a margin larger than the gap between second-place Alabama and 18th-place Oregon, posting a regular-season win percentage above .750 in five of six sports and accumulating 100 more postseason points than any other Power Four school.
- Texas' biggest highlight was winning the Women's College World Series for the second consecutive year, and the program also won the NACDA Directors' Cup for the fifth time in six years.
- Alabama finished second without winning a national title in any of the six scored sports, advancing to the national quarterfinals in football and baseball and a softball semifinal run.
- Michigan led all Big Ten programs, anchored by the conference's first NCAA men's basketball championship since 2000.
- Only Texas, Tennessee and Nebraska reached the postseason in all six scored sports, with Nebraska also posting the second-highest aggregated regular-season win percentage.
- Indiana won a national football championship but finished just 19th overall after missing the postseason in men's basketball, women's basketball and baseball — demonstrating that a single title cannot offset major gaps elsewhere.
- The SEC split six national championships 3-3 with the Big Ten but accounted for 10 of the 16 teams that reached the College World Series fields in baseball and softball, placing eight teams in the overall top 15.
Why it matters: The SEC placed eight teams in the top 15 of an all-sports ranking — including three in the top six — and supplied 10 of 16 College World Series teams in baseball and softball, underscoring the conference's depth advantage over the Big Ten, ACC and Big 12 even as both power leagues split national titles 3-3. For Power Four athletic departments, the model reframes the goal from chasing one championship to sustaining postseason appearances across multiple revenue-driving sports.
