Power plants: colleges like to believe they're think tanks draped in ivy, but they don't mind being referred to as factories that churn out pro athletes. These schools can boast the most.(SPECIAL SECTION)

The most powerful thing a college coach can say to a recruit isn't that State U. has beaten its rival five of the past seven years or that 70 percent of its games are on the tube or that the school has a whizbang biology department. Rather, it's this: We put players in the pros. When it comes to ...

Football It's Miami. NFL teams think so highly of "The U" that from 2001 through '04, they used 19 picks on Canes--in the first round. You can gawk at their stream of stud linebackers (Ray Lewis, Dan Morgan, D.J. Williams, Jonathan Vilma) or admire the quality of their running backs (Edgerrin James, Clinton Portis, Willis McGahee). And so on.

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Basketball It's Arizona. Gilbert Arenas, Mike Bibby, Channing Frye, Andre Iguodala, Richard Jefferson, Damon and Salim Stoudamire and Jason Terry. No wonder Lute Olson has won so many games.

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Baseball It's Southern California. You could build a playoff rotation out of Randy Johnson, Mark Prior, Barry Zito and Anthony Reyes, a potential Rookie of the Year candidate for the Cardinals. And Aaron Boone, Morgan Ensberg, Geoff Jenkins, Jacque Jones and Jason Lane averaged 25 home runs in 2005.

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