Re: ATTENTION: INFORMED POSTERS. List all Perennial Footbal AND Basketball schools.

Since 2000, Florida has won two national titles in football and two in men's basketball. The Gators also played in four other Bowl Championship series games and reached the Final Four another two times.

Over the same span, Ohio State won a national title and played for two others in football and went to a couple Final Fours. The Buckeyes played in six other BCS games and have been the Big Ten's winningest program in both sports.

Wisconsin was in the Final Four along with Florida last March, went to the Rose Bowl three straight seasons from 2010-12 and since 1998-99 has finished in the Associated Press final Top 25s in both sports in the same academic year a nation-leading nine times.

No school has pulled off the football-basketball double better than Florida — never mind this year's struggle on the gridiron. The Gators swept national titles in both sports in 2006-07.

In the last 25 years 50 schools have had their football and men's basketball teams ranked in the sports' respective final AP Top 25s in the same academic year, according to STATS. Only nine of those schools have pulled off the feat five times or more.

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Mar 17, 2015, 10:03 AM

Thanks bry. By perennial, I meant to suggest both FB AND BB ranked inside the final top 25, at least 50% of the time (25 years).

I'm assuming you could count the number of schools that have accomplished this feat on one hand.

OSU, perhaps. Michigan? UCLA?

Point is, it's hard for great players with big egos to settle for playing the 2nd most relevant sport on campus. They all want to be the man on campus.

It's why Kansas and Kentucky are great at bball and stink in football. Duke, UNC, UVA, UCONN much the same. Opposite holds true for schools like USC, OU, Nebraska, BAMA, AU, UGA, LSU, aTm, Clemson, etc...

Unless you're Texas, Oregon (with a billionaire founder of Nike booster), OSU, UM (hundreds of thousands of students), or your campus is located near south beach or LA.... Don't expect too much more than a good run in hoops once every 3-5 years.

Agree that more focus should go toward improving the program to the point where we're consistently in the upper half of the ACC standings with the chance to make a run in the dance on any given year. If we can get there I'll be more than happy, considering how few schools actually Excel at both sports consistently.

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ATTENTION: INFORMED POSTERS. List all Perennial Footbal AND Basketball schools.