The following rankings are a weighted average of each school’s Football, Basketball, and Baseball program rankings. Football accounts for 50% of the ranking, Basketball 35%, and Baseball 15%. These weights were chosen to reflect the relative importance of Football compared to Basketball compared to Baseball. Football rankings run from 1869-2024, Basketball 1896-2025, and Baseball 1947-2025. While there are clear ways to objectively rank College Football and Basketball before the current playoff systems these sports now have, College Baseball begins with the College World Series.
KU is #16, which places it at the top of the new Big 12. Being one of the top programs in the second-most important sport helps elevate its weaker showing in the other two.
To compare two schools to one another, simply divide one’s Total rating from the other. So, KU at 0.3215 compared to Missouri at 0.1777 is 1.809 times better collectively in the three sports that actually matter. This is a slightly bigger gap than the one between KU and #1 Alabama (1.787).
Charting the Hawks 
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