Sports in Los Angeles - College

College

See also: UCLA–USC rivalry

The metropolitan area boasts nine NCAA Division I athletic programs. The best-known are the two whose football teams compete in the top-level Football Bowl Subdivision, both of which are in the city of Los Angeles proper:

  • UCLA Bruins — Winners of more national team championships than any other college program (105), and 259 individual national championships (364 total national championships).
  • USC Trojans — Winners of 91 national team championships, and 357 individual national championships (448 total national championships).

USC has 11 national championships in football and, together with Notre Dame, has more Heisman Trophy winners than any other school. In men's basketball, UCLA has won more titles than any other school.

The area's other Division I programs are:

  • Also in Los Angeles proper:
    • Cal State Northridge Matadors, in the San Fernando Valley
    • Loyola Marymount Lions, on the Westside
  • In Malibu:
    • Pepperdine Waves
  • In Long Beach:
    • Long Beach State 49ers
  • In Orange County:
    • Cal State Fullerton Titans
    • UC Irvine Anteaters
  • In the Inland Empire:
    • UC Riverside Highlanders

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    —Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911)

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    —Helen Rowland (1875–1950)

    “I had a classmate who fitted for college by the lamps of a lighthouse, which was more light, we think, than the University afforded.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)