CFB Bluebloods

Great post from accfootballrx.blogspot.com.  Love the topic and LAUGH when SECPN are the ones voting on it. 


http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/17336754/alabama-crimson-tide-notre-dame-fighting-irish-ohio-state-buckeyes-oklahoma-sooners-usc-trojans-lead-list-college-football-blue-bloods

It's a thorny, fun, fascinating question that we posed to 12 of our writers. We asked them to rate every current FBS program on a scale of 1-10, based on each school's overall impact on the history of college football.
The rankings below list the school, then their average score. The top five finished with unanimous 10 scores, and we rounded up from 9.5 for those that just missed a perfect score.

13. Florida State Seminoles | 8.92
Former coach Bobby Bowden broke through for Florida State's first title in 1993. He won another in 1999 before handing the reins to current coach Jimbo Fisher, who won again in 2013. A trio of Seminoles quarterbacks have won Heismans with Charlie Ward (1993), Chris Weinke (2000) and Jameis Winston (2013) taking home the award.



http://accfootballrx.blogspot.com/#!/2017/05/acc-football-royalty.html

Move over, Florida State: there's a newly-crowned king in ACC football land. This conference now boasts multiple football "royalty" teams...

From FoxSports: Clemson reaffirmed its place as a CFB blueblood 

Winning a National Championship is a surefire way to establish a program as a blueblood in college football, but make no mistake, the Tigers are already there... Clemson is not a flash in the pan program that landed a generational quarterback and has ridden him to new heights — this is a program that was built from the bottom up and has all the depth and infrastructure necessary to contend for titles year in, year out.

Fox isn't the only ones saying it, either. It's pretty clear that the Clemson Tigers have been accepted into the "club" of college football "blue bloods".

That got me thinking: after Florida State and Clemson, what other lower-level royalty - knights or whatever you want to call them - does the ACC have in its midst?

College Football Royalty.

Back in August of 2016 - right before last season kicked off - ESPN ran a series of articles about college football blue bloods: who are they, who's almost there, and what does it take to get there too?

At that time they listed a mere 8 teams are truly "blueblood" football royalty:

Alabama Crimson Tide
Notre Dame Fighting Irish
Ohio State Buckeyes
Oklahoma Sooners
USC Trojans
Michigan Wolverines
Texas Longhorns
Nebraska Cornhuskers

These are the unquestionable programs, with multiple trophies spanning multiple decades.

Below that group they listed the rest of the top 25, which should be of interest to ACC fans:

LSU Tigers
Penn State Nittany Lions
Florida Gators
Georgia Bulldogs
Florida State Seminoles
Miami Hurricanes
Tennessee Volunteers
Auburn Tigers
Clemson Tigers
Michigan State Spartans
UCLA Bruins
Texas A&M Aggies
Oregon Ducks
Stanford Cardinal
Washington Huskies
Wisconsin Badgers
Arkansas Razorbacks

FSU and Miami have the multiple championships but lack the extended history of excellence. Clemson has the history but lacked the trophies (until January 2017, at least). It's worth noting that ESPN also listed 5 teams that "could become blue bloods" - a list which included Clemson.

ESPN also went so far as to rank all FBS teams in terms of "blue blood scores" - how close they are to breaking into the royal family ranks. Three ACC teams are within striking distance, and a fourth is not far behind:

26 Pittsburgh Panthers
27 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
28 BYU
29 Virginia Tech Hokies
30 Iowa
31 TCU
32 Oklahoma State
33 Ole Miss
34 Arizona State
35 Syracuse Orange
36 Army
37 Boise State
38 Colorado
39 Minnesota
40 Cal
41 Louisville Cardinals
42 Utah
43 Mississippi State
44 Boston College Eagles
45 West Virginia
46 Arizona
47 Kansas State
48 Washington State
49 Missouri
50 South Carolina
51 Navy
52 Purdue
53 North Carolina Tar Heels
54 Illinois
55 Virginia Cavaliers
56 Texas Tech
57 Oregon State
58 NC State Wolfpack
59 Baylor
60 Northwestern
61 Maryland
62 Kentucky
63 Houston
64 Air Force
65 Duke Blue Devils

So Wake Forest didn't make the top 65 (and Duke just barely), and really no team below Louisville even has a shot in our lifetimes... but that still gives the conference 3 football minor kings in FSU, Miami and Clemson, plus four more potential royals in Pittsburgh, Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech and Syracuse.

Thoughts? Leave a comment!