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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Famous quotes containing the word college:

    “I do not think that a Physician should be admitted into the College till he could bring proofs of his having cured, in his own person, at least four incurable distempers.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    “Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.”
    —Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)

    “... when you make it a moral necessity for the young to dabble in all the subjects that the books on the top shelf are written about, you kill two very large birds with one stone: you satisfy precious curiosities, and you make them believe that they know as much about life as people who really know something. If college boys are solemnly advised to listen to lectures on prostitution, they will listen; and who is to blame if some time, in a less moral moment, they profit by their information?”
    —Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)