I was pretty up to date with college rankings/admissions a while ago when I was still thinking I had a shot a top school. Lots of the top colleges are small D3 schools (Amherst college, Williams, Bowden), or not athletic D1 schools (Colgate, Ivys, Rice). In terms of top D1 programs, the ACC and PAC12 are probably the best academically (UNC, Duke, Virginia, Stanford, Cal, UCLA). The list of big East schools actually aren’t that prestigious academically speaking, so it’s not at all surprising these rankings. Honestly, they’re probably the worst batch of schools academically if you compare against the AAC + power 5 conferences.
That being said, after going through college, I 100% believe that a state university like UConn or Ohio State beats the small D3 liberal arts colleges any day. Most people will come out of school with higher paying jobs, more school recognition on the market, and tons less debt.