Party on: the only college rankings that count
While Adam Abramson and Mike Rose are busy posting college football rankings on Campus Confidential, the wild and crazy guys at The Final Score would rather think about partying.
And thanks to the Princeton Review, we've got the list of the top-20 party schools in the US.
So who's No.1? Why it's those beer-guzzling, sun-soaking, sports-loving Florida Gators.
``The fact that we have three national championships in two years is probably a major contributing factor,'' Guzzling Gators university spokesman Steve Orlando told the Associated Press. ``We know our students like to have a good time.''
No. 2 is Mississippi.
No. 3 goes to Rose's beloved Penn State Nittany Lions.
No New York schools appear on the list. We can understand why Army wouldn't be a party school (it's ranked No. 11 among stone-cold sober schools, listing below), you'd think that Hofstra would have scored some points. After all, there's a McDonald's across the street and a Popeye's Chicken just a few blocks west.
Anyway, in case you're a parent looking for the right place to send your high school seniors. . .
Here are the top 20 party schools:
1. University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla.
2. University of Mississippi, University, Miss.
3. Penn State University, University Park, Pa.
4. West Virginia University, Morgantown, W.Va.
5. Ohio University, Athens, Ohio.
6. Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Va.
7. University of Georgia, Athens, Ga.
8. University of Texas, Austin, Texas.
9. University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, Calif.
10. Florida State University, Tallahassee, Fla.
11. University of New Hampshire, Durham, N.H.
12. University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.
13. University of Colorado, Boulder, Co.
14. Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind.
15. Tulane University, New Orleans, La.
16. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Ill.
17. Arizona State University, Tempe, Ariz.
18. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn.
19. University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Ala.
20. Loyola University-New Orleans, New Orleans, La.
And the top 20 stone-cold sober schools:
1. Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.
2. Wheaton College, Wheaton, Ill.
3. U.S. Coast Guard Academy, New London, Conn.
4. College of the Ozarks, Point Lockout, Mo.
5. Grove City College, Grove City, Pa.
6. U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colo.
7. U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md.
8. Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.
9. Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, Calif.
10. Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Mich.
11. U.S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y.
12. Wesleyan College, Macon, Ga.
13. Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, Needham, Mass.
14. City University of New York-Queens College, Flushing, N.Y.
15. Webb Institute, Glen Cove, N.Y.
16. Berea College, Berea, Ky.
17. Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Ga.
18. City University of New York-Baruch College, New York.
19. Simmons College, Boston.
20. Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
In the above AP file photo, Florida and Georgia football fans, including one with a beer bong, stand atop a bus before their annual game billed as "The world's largest outdoor cocktail party."
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As I work at #17 and worked at #18, I can only bemoan the absence of the University of Virginia, which was once a professional at such things, and the University of Wisconsin, where the beer was cheap and the lakes were ice cold.
What about WISCONSIN? Madison is #1 on many other lists. There Halloween party on state street gets swat called upon every year. Along with Wisconsin they have UWOshkosh. Nicknamed Sloshkosh. This school has the 3rd listing on some other lists. Then Milwaukee. Home of Miller. A city were beer is brewed.