I see alot of talk about a school's "baseline prestige", but where would you go to find this out?  I've been playing the game now for a couple of years, and have never known if  this information is readily available, or whether its just pure conjecture.

Thanks to the many who have posted and reposted this information

D1 Baseline Prestiges:

ACC
Big East
Big 10
SEC
Pac 10
Big 12

A+ Duke
A+ North Carolina
A Maryland
A- Georgia Tech
A- Wake Forest
A- North Carolina State
A- Boston College
B+ Virginia
B Clemson
B Florida State
B Miami (Fla)
B Virginia Tech

A+ Connecticut
A+ Syracuse
A- Georgetown
A- Louisville
A- Cincinnati
B+ Villanova
B+ Pittsburgh
B West Virginia
B Providence
B Seton Hall
B St. John's
B- Rutgers

A+ Michigan State
A+ Illinois
A- Indiana
A- Wisconsin
B+ Ohio State
B+ Purdue
B Iowa
B Michigan
B Minnesota
B Notre Dame
B- Penn State
B- Northwestern

A+ Kentucky
A- Florida
B+ Arkansas
B+ Tennessee
B LSU
B South Carolina
B Vanderbilt
B Georgia
B Alabama
B Auburn
B Mississippi
B Mississippi State

A+ UCLA
A+ Arizona
A- Stanford
B California
B Oregon
B Oregon State
B Washington State
B Washington
B Arizona State
B USC
B- Hawaii
B- Fresno State

A+ Kansas
A- Oklahoma
B Oklahoma State
B Texas
B Missouri
B Iowa State
B Texas Tech
B Texas A&M
B- Kansas State
B- Colorado
B- Nebraska
B- Baylor

A10
B = St. Joseph's
B = Temple
B = Xavier
B = Dayton
B- = UMass
B- = Charlotte
B- = Rhode Island
B- = St. Bonaventure
B- = Richmond
B- = St. Louis
B- = George Washington
B- = La Salle

WCC
B = Gonzaga
C = Pepperdine
C = Portland
C = San Francisco
C = Santa Clara
C = Loyola Marymount
C = Nevada
C = San Jose St.
D+= Grambling St.
D+= Lipscomb
D+= Texas, Pan American
D+= Boise St.

Mountain West
B = Utah
B = UNLV
B- = New Mexico
C = BYU
C = Denver
C = Texas Christian
C = Texas Southern
C = Wyoming
C = Air Force
C = N. Texas
C = San Diego St.
C = Colorado St.

CUSA
Memphis = B
The rest = C

Ivy
All teams = D

Horizon
B = Marquette
B- = DePaul
The rest = C

Missouri Valley
All teams = C

MAC
All teams = C

All other schools are D

Thanks!

Posted by lesliechow on 11/9/2010 4:43:00 PM (view original):
What the heck does baseline prestige even mean?

Baseline Prestige, as I understand it, is a prestige that each D-1 team has that is based on where the team is "historically at".  It is a Normal, so to speak, where the team is happy.

You can get your team prestige above or below this prestige based on your current performance, but the team will quickly adjust itself towards the "baseline" (if it is significantly above or below it), when possible.

For example, if LSU has a B baseline prestige and is currently a C- due to poor performance, they will quickly get back to a B with much less effort (maybe one season).  Where BYU has a C as a baseline, so it would not go from C- to B with the same performance ... it would take more to get BYU to B than to get LSU to B from that C-..

If you build a program that's constantly winning each season for a long
period of time, we'll the baseline prestige change or does it always stay the
same.

Baseline prestige does not change.  Not all programs are equal in HD DI.

Bump, because this information used to be a lot easier for people to find.  Thanks kannc6.

I agree If i was smarter I would have a program that I kept this under with all the other usuful info.

just start an Excel file and c&p, that's what i've done with such info

Bump

cant they pin this for everyone?

It is pinned in the critical news sub-forum