http://www.businessinsider.com/colleges-with-smart-and-athletic-students-2015-4?op=1
Most of the usual suspects… rankings are of course debatable.
stanford at number 1? lol
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To create this list, Niche culled data from students at colleges around the US who rated their schools in a number of categories, including academics and athletics.
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Seriously Business Insider? You looked at what a small group of kids (for my kid’s college it’s a dozen over 5 years for athletics and academics) self reported for their school and then used that to rate schools? How do you even know the respondents are college students? Anyone can sign up for a Niche account.
The fact that the Service Academies are not in the top five speaks volumes about the veracity of this list
@OhSorryYo , check out the number of times Stanford has won the NCAA Directors’s Cup…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NACDA_Directors%27_Cup
…and I guess we are well aware of how smart the Stanford students are. LOL indeed 
I believe Stanford is rightly number one. They are a top 5 school and with very successful sports teams with national recognition. They frequently play in prime time spots compared to it’s Ivy League competitors who basically never do.
Are you referring to just the student-athletes being good in both, or the students in general being good in both?
U of O at Eugene isn’t on it either. .
I assumed this was talking about the general student population, not official university teams. Obviously a school like Stanford will get top picks for its athletic department, but I highly doubt their general student population will stand a chance against other schools in intramural football
Is football a common club sport?
Maybe because it’s because I’m from the south, but intramural sports are very popular here. Many clubs that have nothing to do with sports have intramural teams and the most popular sports to play are football in the fall and basketball in the spring. In several cases, people join the clubs solely for their sports team. I’ve had friends that joined the Asian Business Student Association who were neither Asian nor Business majors, but because their co-ed football team was good.
Intramural and club sports are popular at Stanford, too, but there’s no football other than flag.
Most of the service academies require participation in some athletic pursuit and they are extremely selective. Participation in a varsity sport, especially as a captain or cocaptain is a huge plus in admissions. That’s why it’s ridiculous that the academies are not number one. Simply put there are no other schools, save for possibly Deep Springs (does manual labor count?), that come close to what the academies demand from students in terms of athletics.
I think we’ve seen that participation in a varsity sport is a plus at many colleges.