University of Michigan

The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (U-M) is a public coeducational university in Michigan, United States. The flagship and oldest campus of the University of Michigan, U-M Ann Arbor is considered to be a Public Ivy, and is consistently ranked as one of the top public academic institutions in the world.{{ref|worldranking}} The University of Michigan's professional graduate schools in the fields of law, medicine, business, engineering, and education are consistently ranked by US News & World Report in the top 10 in the country. The U-M's departments of philosophy, economics, political science, history, and mathematics are also highly respected for their academic reputations and research activities

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the University of Michigan

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The University of Michigan's sports teams are called the Wolverines, after the state's nickname. They participate in the NCAA's Division I-A and in the Big Ten Conference in all sports except hockey, which competes in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association. In seven of the past ten years, U-M has finished in the top five of the NACDA Director's Cup, a list compiled by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics that charts institutions' overall success in college sports.

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Wolverines - NCAA - Division I-A - Big Ten Conference - Hockey - Central Collegiate Hockey Association - NACDA Director's Cup

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The U-M football team won the first Rose Bowl game in 1902, and has won an NCAA-record 842 games through the 2004 season. The football team is the NCAA's all-time winningest program—in both total wins and winning percentage. The program is a model of consistency as it is one of only two teams to have been ranked in the final Top 25 poll every year since 1989.{{ref|sports1}} Since that time, the Wolverines have won outright or shared seven Big Ten titles and won a national championship. U-M football has won eleven national championships overall, the most recent in 1997,{{ref|sports2}} and has produced three Heisman trophy winners.{{ref|sports3}}

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Football - Rose Bowl - 1902 - 2004 - 1989 - 1997

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Michigan Stadium, or "The Big House," is the largest football-only stadium in the world, with an official capacity of 107,501 and attendance commonly exceeding 110,000. NCAA record-breaking attendance has become commonplace at Michigan Stadium, especially since the arrival of Bo Schembechler in 1969. The University of Michigan has fierce rivalries with many teams, including Michigan State and Notre Dame. However, their football rivalry with Ohio State University is widely considered to be the greatest in all of college athletics, and was called the greatest sports rivalry of all time by ESPN.{{ref|sports5}}

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Michigan Stadium - Bo Schembechler - 1969 - ESPN

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The men's basketball team, which plays at Crisler Arena, and the ice hockey team, which plays at Yost Ice Arena, are highly popular teams. A Harris Survey in 2003 found the U-M men's basketball program to be the second most popular in the nation and the women's program the third most popular in the nation.{{ref|HarrisPoll}} The men's ice hockey has won nine national championships, the most of any American university or college. The men's basketball team won the national championship in 1989, though a scandal in the 1990s involving payments from a booster led to a four-year probation and forfeiture of victories in selected past seasons.

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Men's basketball - Crisler Arena - Ice hockey - Yost Ice Arena - 2003 - 1989 - 1990s

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