Playboy has announced its Top 10 Party Schools for 2011 and the Buffaloes from the University of Colorado are # 1.  So, if you are looking for a good time in college, look to the University of Colorado.

Colorado Buffaloes # 1 Party School 2011

The 2011 Playboy Top 10 Party Schools showed a great diversion from the 2010 Playboy Top 10 Party Schools.  Six colleges from the 2010 Top 10 fell totally out of the rankings: West Virginia (2); Miami (4); East Carolina (5); Rollins (7); Plymouth State (9); Iowa (10).  Students at these colleges must be terribly disappointed while administrators are rejoicing.

Colorado and Penn State were not on the 2010 list and finished 1-2.  Arizona State moved up in the rankings from # 6 to # 3 while Wisconsin dropped three slots from # 3 in 2010 to # 6 in 2011.  Cal-Santa Barbara was #10 this year after finishing # 8 last year.

1. Colorado
2. Penn State
3. Arizona State
4. University of Western Ontario
5. Texas
6. Wisconsin
7. Georgia
8. Tennessee
9. Central Florida
10. Cal – Santa Barbara

The 2010 Playboy party school rankings gave awards in several categories other than the Top 10 Party Schools.

FRIGHTENING: Ohio U. has the nation's best Halloween party.

Here are some you may be interested in:

• Best Halloween Party — Ohio University (I’ve been there; they are right.)
• Best Mascot — Uga (Georgia)
• Hottest Cheerleaders — USC Song Girls (no kidding)
• Best Catholic Party School — Marquette
• Best Ivy League Party School — N/A
• College That Sounds Fun but Isn’t — UNLV
• Best Surf School — Hawaii
• Worst Party School — (Tie) Brigham Young & Oral Roberts

Go to a party and you’ll likely hear some guy claim that his college was named the # 1 party school in the country by Playboy.  He’s likely smoked too much weed or drank too much beer to be correct.

Hook 'Em Horns: Texas is the # 1 Playboy Party School for 2010.

There is legend and there is reality when it comes to Playboy’s Top Party School rankings.  The fact is that Playboy has only published its rankings 5 times.  The most recent is in the May 2010 issue of Playboy. The original Playboy Party School rankings were in 1987 when Cal State-Chico won out.

Perhaps, the party school rankings are becoming more consistent as this is the second year in a row that Playboy has published them.  The 2009 Playboy Top Party School rankings are here on NCAACollegeCheerleaders.com.  The Miami Hurricanes came out on top in 2009 in the rankings that college administrators hate to win.

Here are the 2010 Playboy Top Party Schools:

1. Texas
2. West Virginia
3. Wisconsin
4. Miami
5. East Carolina
6. Arizona State
7. Rollins
8. Cal-Santa Barbara
9. Plymouth State (NH)
10. Iowa

San Diego State had the distinction of being the only Playboy party school to be recognized in all of the four previous listings. For some reason, the Aztecs fell out of the 2010 rankings.  Come on San Diego State!  You’re better than that!

Who’s kidding whom?  College students drink beer.  A lot of beer.

So, when Budweiser began targeting students with its uniquely colored cans emblazoned with the school colors, it was no surprise that they appealed to college football fans and college students.

I first encountered the maroon and orange Bud Light “fan cans” during a recent trip to Blacksburg and Virginia Tech.  It’s not often that you see a national brand use the unique colors of the Hokies, but there was Bud Light on the shelves of Blacksburg stores.  Needless to say, Hokie fans, excited by their preseason Top 10 ranking, were “gobbling” them up.

“Show Your True Colors with Bud Light,” said the advertisements.  27 different colors were available around the country.  ”Made for Gameday,” added the Bud Light advertisements.

At least 25 colleges have asked Budweiser to drop their fan cans.  On Long Island, Stony Brook University president Samuel Stanley called the cans “categorically unacceptable.  Stony Brook did not make the Top 10 in football or party schools by the way.

45% of college students indicate that they have been involved in binge drinking which is regarded as drinking five or more alcoholic beverages in one sitting.  At Penn State, named # 1 Party School by Princeton Review, it is significantly higher than that.

Penn State is the # 1 party school in the country for 2009-10!  Now, that ought to make Joe Paterno proud!

Penn State party girls just getting started.

Penn State has long been known as a party school, but this is the Nittany Lions’ first ever ranking as the top party school in the nation. 

Congratulations to Penn State!

List of top party schools by Princeton Review

The nation’s top party schools, according to Princeton Review’s 2009 survey of 122,000 students.

1. Penn State University, State College, Pa.

2. University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla.

3. University of Mississippi, Oxford, Miss.

4. University of Georgia, Athens, Ga.

These Georgia party girls helped the Bulldogs earn a #4 ranking.

5. Ohio University, Athens, Ohio

6. West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia

7. University of Texas, Austin, Texas

8. University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.

9. Florida State University, Tallahassee, Fla.

10. University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, Calif.

11. University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo.

12. University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa

13. Union College, Schenectady, N.Y.

14. Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind.

15. DePauw University, Greencastle, Ind.

16. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn.

17. Sewanee: The University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn.

18. University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, N.D.

19. Tulane University, New Orleans, La.

20. Arizona State University, Tempe, Ariz.

Playboy did its fourth ever ranking of the top party schools in the May 2009 issue of the magazine.  Hot off the hot press, here is Playboy’s recent Top Party Schools rankings for 2009.

1. University of Miami
2. University of Texas
3. San Diego State
4. University of Florida
5. University of Arizona
6. University of Wisconsin
7. University of Georgia
8. Louisianna State University
9. University of Iowa
10. West Virgnia University

Interestingly, Playboy ranked the schools on five criteria for its 2009 rankings: bikini; sex; campus; sports;

Miami was ranked the # 1 party school by Playboy magazine for 2009.

 brains.  Not surprisingly, of the top 10, Miami was #1 in the bikini category with West Virginia finishing tenth.  In sex, however, the Mountaineers came out #1 as the school where it is easiest to get sex with LSU and Texas as the “hardest” to get laid.  As for campus, Miami again showed up tops with LSU and WVU last of the top 10 party schools.  In sports, Florida Gators were # 1 with San Diego State the lowest of the top 10.  In brains, Miami was tops with West Virginia on the bottom of the elite 10.

Wisconsin, San Diego State, and Georgia are the only colleges returning to the Top 10 since Playboy did its 2006 Top Party School rankings.  LSU, Wisconsin, West Virginia, and San Diego State return from the 2002 Playboy Top Party School rankings.  San Diego State and West Virginia return from the original 1987 Playboy Top Party School rankings.

You have to admire San Diego State for its consistency.  It has been ranked a top party school for all four of Playboy’s Top Party School rankings.

Cal State Chico topped Playboy’s first ever rankings of Top Party Schools in 1987.  Since then, Playboy has been the most well-known of the rankers of top party schools, probably more for its associated photo pictorials than anything else.

1. Cal State – Chico
2. Miami
3. San Diego State
4. Vermont
5. Slippery Rock
6. Connecticut
7. West Virginia
8. Plymouth State
9. Mercer
10. Virginia
11. SUNY – Cortland
12. Colorado State
13. Arizona State
14. UNLV
15. Boston U.
16. Central Michigan
17. Southern Illinois
18. Ball State
19. Oklahoma State
20. Central Connecticut
21. Maryland
22. Ol’ Miss
23. Western Georgia
24. Texas
25. MIT
26. Kansas
27. Kansas State
28. Glassboro State
29. Florida
30. Eastern Kentucky
31. Iowa
32. Oklahoma
33. Brown
34. Ohio U.
35. UMass
36. Georgia
37. LSU
38. Missouri – Rolla
39. Reed College
40. Fairhaven College

Honorable Mentions — Alabama, Auburn, Clemson, Colorado, Columbia, Dartmouth, Georgetown, Iowa State, Kent State, Michigan State, Penn State, Purdue, Rhode Island, Rutgers, Tennessee, Trinity.

Contrary to popular belief, Playboy does not publish a Top Party School ranking every year. In fact, it has only published its own such rankings in 1987 and then again in 2002 and 2006.

Here are the Playboy rankings for Top Party School of 2002.

1. Arizona State
2. Cal State – Chico
3. Rollins College
4. LSU
5. West Virginia
6. Colorado
7. Wisconsin
8. Connecticut
9. Kansas
10. San Diego State
11. Georgia
12. Ohio State
13. Iowa State
14. Florida State
15. Colorado State
16. Florida
17. Tulane
18. Washington State
19. East Carolina
20. Michigan State
21. Ol’ Miss
22. Cal-Santa Barbara
23. Lehigh
24. Vanderbilt
25. James Madison

Honorable Mentions — Miami Ohio, Ohio U., Colgate, Penn State, Pittsburgh, Southern Illinois, Slippery Rock, Tennessee, Texas, Dayton.

The top party schools in the USA as ranked by PubClub.com.

1. Texas
   

   We know this Texas student can party

2. Florida
3. Wisconsin
4. Alabama
5. Cal-Santa Barbara
6. Georgia
7. Ohio U.
8. Florida State
9. Arizona
10. Southern Cal

According to The Princeton Review, here are the top 20 party schools in the United States for the 2008-2009 party season.  Florida has regained the number one position and West Virginia, last year’s winner, has dropped to # 4.

1. University of Florida
2. University of Mississippi
3. Pennsylvania State University
4. West Virginia University
5. Ohio University
6. Randolph-Macon College
7. University of Georgia
8. University of Texas
9. University of California– Santa Barbara
10. Florida State University
11. University of New Hampshire
12. University of Iowa
13. University of Colorado
14. Indiana University
15. Tulane University
16. University of Illinois
17. Arizona State University
18. University of Tennessee
19. University of Alabama
20. Loyola University New Orleans