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UCLA Athletics Ranked #3 for 2007

The Sports Illustrated staff created a formula to figure out which college had the best athletic year last year. All sports were counted, and an emphesis was placed on championships.

Here's how we came up with the rankings. In step one, we awarded 10 points to each national championship team for 22 sports (11 men's -- baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, hockey, lacrosse, soccer, tennis, indoor track & field and volleyball -- and 11 women's -- basketball, cross country, field hockey, golf, gymnastics, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, indoor track & field and volleyball). We made a conscious effort to balance sports with regional biases. So, for example, men's lacrosse -- a predominately East Coast sport -- was countered with men's volleyball.

In step two, we narrowed our scope and evaluated success on the conference level for these 22 sports, awarding each school three points per sport for capturing a regular season conference title and one additional (or standalone) point for winning the season-ending conference tournament. Thus, a team that finished first during the regular season and then won the conference tournament earned four points.

In step three, we examined the final rankings (using various NCAA-approved sources such as AP, coaches polls, etc.) for these 22 sports and awarded points to each school by multiplying the number of relevant teams with top-30 finishes by two.

After plugging every school into this formula, UCLA came in 3rd, just behind Arizona State and Stanford. USC is T-7.

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