UCLA is the only college to produce finals MVP's in three major sports

There’s just one school in the entire country that has produced the MVP for the Super Bowl, the NBA Finals and for the World Series. That one school is the UCLA Bruins, with the achievement being a rarer feat than you might expect.

College Baseball Reference posted an interesting graphic earlier this week, showing that in total there are eight schools to have MVPs in two of the three sports, but only the Bruins have all three.

USC, BYU and Florida all have had World Series and Super Bowl MVPs, while Arizona, Cal and Michigan State have MVPs for both the Super Bowl and for the NBA Finals. San Diego State is the only school besides UCLA to have MVPs for the World Series and for the NBA Finals.

Let’s meet the UCLA MVPs that got UCLA into the middle of the graphic.

MLB: Troy Glaus 2002

Troy Glaus was inducted to the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame in 2007, just five years after helping the Los Angeles Angels clinch the 2002 World Series. Glaus and the Angels led a miraculous comeback to stave off elimination in Game 6 before eliminating the San Francisco Giants in Game 7.

For the series, Glaus batted .385 with three home runs and eight runs batted in. Glaus added three doubles and four walks in the series. The Angels have not returned to the World Series since Glaus’ heroics in 2002.

NFL:  Troy Aikman 1993

Maybe it’s something about the first name Troy. Troy Aikman won Super Bowl MVP with the Dallas Cowboys in Dallas’ 52-17 win over the Buffalo Bills.

The Cowboys thrashed the Bills but Aikman shined the brightest, as he returned to the Rose Bowl and threw for four touchdowns and 273 yards in the first of Aikman’s three Super Bowls.

NBA: Bill Walton (1977) and Kareem Abdul-Jabaar (1971 and 1985)

UCLA’s shined the brightest on the hardwood so it makes sense that the Bruins have had three NBA Finals MVPs. Lew Alcindor was the first, getting it done in 1971 with the Milwaukee Bucks alongside Oscar Robertson in the Bucks’ sweep of the Baltimore Bullets.

Bill Walton would accomplish the feat in 1977 with the Portland Trail Blazers beating the Philadelphia 76ers in six games, with Walton scoring 20 points and grabbing 23 rebounds in the series-clinching win.

One name change later, Kareem Abdul-Jabaar would win the 1985 NBA Finals MVP, helping a young Magic Johnson and the Los Angeles Lakers knock off the rival Boston Celtics in six games.

This article originally appeared on UCLA Wire: UCLA only school to produce MLB, NBA and NFL championship MVPs