ShareThisMaybe the Atlantic Coast Conference is shaking free from its awkward, sudden-growth spurt after all.
Less than a month after North Carolina brought home the NCAA basketball championship from the Final Four in Detroit, league cohort Miami has been proclaimed as the nation's No. 1 party school by Playboy magazine.
At this rate, there's bound to be a top-10 football finish on the way. Once a leading contender on the football front, the Hurricanes will have to settle for this latest distinction for now.
According to Playboy, a top rating in the partying division is a worthy distinction, too. In announcing its top 10, the magazine said several specific areas were taken into account -- campus life, sports, sex, academics, weather, male-female ratio and cheerleaders.
And all this time we thought the Bowl Championship Series poll was based on a complex equation. At any rate, here's to the top 10:
-- 1. MIAMI: ACC! ACC! Eat your heart out, Southern Cal.
-- 2. TEXAS: Mack Brown will find a way to turn this into a recruiting tool.
-- 3. SAN DIEGO STATE: The only BCS outsider to crash the bash.
-- 4. FLORIDA: Who, pray tell, is going to explain this to Tim Tebow?
-- 5. ARIZONA: There must be some real pop in those tea cans.
-- 6. WISCONSIN: You gotta love those ice-fishing toga parties.
-- 7. GEORGIA: Hush your foul mouth, Scarlett.
-- 8. LSU: Underrr Rated! Underrr Rated!
-- 9. IOWA: Iowa? What were the voters drinking?
-- 10. WEST VIRGINIA: Shout it from the mountain tops.
(Contact Caulton Tudor at caulton.tudor@newsobserver.com.)
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Must credit The News and Observer of Raleigh, N.C.
