Does anyone have a link or a list to Mid Majors D1 programs/colleges?
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I don't know of a site that breaks them down into mid majors, but from this site you can access all the D1 athletic (baseball) sites. You can also sort and access the D2's and D3's...
http://web1.ncaa.org/onlineDir/exec2/sponsorship?sortOrder=0&division=1&sport=MBA
Go to Boyd's and look up Strength of Schedule version and look through the middle to lower half of the list.
Thanks, NYdad2017 and BOF!
http://www.boydsworld.com/base.../isr/currentisr.html
I found this on Boyd's and found it helpful - it's the iterative strength rating (ISR) that the strength of schedule rating is based on. Seems like it could help with D1 context.
Another way to look at a mid-major program is by conference RPI. 32 D1 conferences that you can dice and slice any which way you want. One man's top conference is another man's mid-major depending on how you define it.
The last few years college baseball daily has published a poll. I don't recall the criteria for being considered.
I wouldn't put any stock into which colleges are considered mid majors. Some mid majors are among the top programs in the country.
Someone could put together a list of the very best 50 or 100 baseball colleges and that list would include some mid major programs. Also, some of the largest major colleges with big expensive athletic programs would not be on that list.
It's kind of like asking about DIII colleges. They are all DIII, but the difference from the best to the rest is like night and day.
