The latest edition cites the same “Top 5” Best National Universities from last year: Princeton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard, Stanford and Yale. This year, the University of Chicago was awarded sixth place and there was a four-way tie for seventh place: Duke, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, and University of Pennsylvania.

Oklahoma general manager Jim Nagy ranks in the top 10 of GM salaries amongst college programs across the country. USA Today assembled the salaries of football general managers across college football, and Nagy’s $750,000 salary in 2025 ranks eighth in the nation.