Football Bluebloods

Great info from HokieMark and accfootballrx.blogspot.com.


http://accfootballrx.blogspot.com/#!/2017/01/all-time-winningest-teams.html


These are the Top 20 all-time winningest college football teams (from 1869-2016, or 148 years) based on the Stassen Football Database:

Rank	Team name	Win%	W-L-T	Games
1	Michigan	0.73027	935-334-36	1305
2	Notre Dame	0.72836	896-321-42	1259
3	Ohio State	0.72363	886-322-53	1261
4	Alabama	0.72133	878-326-43	1247
5	Oklahoma	0.72111	872-321-53	1246
6	Texas	0.70678	891-360-33	1284
7	Southern Cal	0.70016	823-337-54	1214
8	Nebraska	0.69869	889-372-40	1301
9	Penn State	0.68624	867-385-42	1294
10	Florida State	0.68159	532-244-17	793
11	Tennessee	0.68059	829-375-53	1257
12	Louisiana State	0.65004	778-408-47	1233
13	Georgia	0.64844	803-423-54	1280
14	Florida	0.6304	710-408-40	1158
15	Miami (FL)	0.63026	605-351-19	975
16	Auburn	0.62907	749-432-47	1228
17	Washington	0.61328	714-441-50	1205
18	Virginia Tech	0.60841	729-461-46	1236
19	Arizona State	0.60835	600-382-24	1006
20	Clemson	0.60632	716-457-45	1218

So the ACC boasts 4 of the Top 20 (just barely - welcome aboard, Tigers!). If you count Notre Dame, that would make 5 teams. The Big Ten also has 4 teams, while the SEC has 6. The Pac-12 has 3 teams in the Top 20, and the Big XII has a pair.

Here's how it looks by conference:

Conference	# Top 20
SEC	6
ACC	4*
Big Ten	4
Pac-12	3
Big XII	2

* and a partial

Still not sure if the ACC is a "power" football conference?

Historical Perspective. I ran a test where I cut if off at 2011 -- the ACC had only 3 teams (Clemson was 30th at that point).

Back it up to 2003 and neither Virginia Tech nor Clemson makes the cut (both were below #30 Georgia Tech back then). That's because since the 2004 expansion, Clemson has been the 10th winningest program, and Virginia Tech, the 13th.

In fact, since the 2013 expansion, Clemson and Florida State have been #3 and #4, respectively. Oh, and now Louisville is trying to creep in with the 13th best win percentage since 2013.

MIAMI INFO:
all-time to 2003: 15th
all-time to 2013: 14th
2004-2016: 37th
2013-2016: 37th


http://accfootballrx.blogspot.com/2017/01/football-bluebloods.html#!/2017/01/football-bluebloods.html

We hear the term tossed out, but what does it really mean to be a college football "blueblood", and which teams qualify?

One criterion I think we could all agree on is a national championship in the sport. If we limit our research to the last 80 years - i.e. ever since formalized polls have been used - we see a definite set of dominant teams.

According to data posted on Wikipedia, only 31 teams have won at least a share of a national title by the AP or Coaches' poll. Of these, only 19 teams have won multiple titles. This seems to be a reasonable cut-off for bluebloods.*

As I'm sure most of you know, Clemson is a one-time winner, so a victory over Alabama on Monday would be huge. It would elevate the Tigers from "teams which had a good season once" to "blueblood" status.

Here's the complete list of AP and/or Coaches Poll National Champions:

School	Titles
Alabama	11
Notre Dame	8
Oklahoma	7
USC	7
Ohio State	6
Miami (FL)	5
Nebraska	5
Minnesota	4
Texas	4
Florida	3
Florida State	3
LSU	3
Army	2
Auburn	2
Michigan	2
Michigan State	2
Penn State	2
Pittsburgh	2
Tennessee	2
BYU	1
Clemson	1
Colorado	1
Georgia	1
Georgia Tech	1
Maryland	1
Oklahoma State	1
Syracuse	1
TCU	1
Texas A&M	1
UCLA	1
Washington	1