The winningest college baseball programs of all time 🏆
— Baseball America (@BaseballAmerica) August 14, 2025
Full Top 25: https://t.co/MqXhSoE7B7 pic.twitter.com/dv9fxHR8dO
Total seasons, (natties)
1. Fordham 165 (0)
2. Texas 129 (6)
3. Stanford 132 (2)
4. Michigan 152 (2)
5. Florida State 78 (0)
6. North Carolina 136 (0)
7. Clemson 128 (0)
8. Southern Cal 131 (12)
9. Arizona St. 114 (5)
10. Arizona 120 (4)
17. Miami
19. UF
From 1980-2019, Mike Martin avg 50.7 wins/season.
If Auburn gets 1910 and 1913 because the Billingsley Report — one of seven mathematics formulas that was used in the old BCS format — went back and retroactively claimed the Tigers were the national champs, then Florida State should go ahead and hang up that 1989 banner, right? Because Billingsley gave the Seminoles the title that year. FSU won 10 straight games to end that season, including a win over eventual national champ Miami, but finished second in the AP poll to the Hurricanes.
But our man Billingsley said, “Hell nah. That title belongs to the ‘Noles!” So, claim it, FSU! Like the Tigers did.
And while we’re at it: The Rothman (FACT) poll awarded Florida State the 1980 national championship. That is also in the NCAA Record Book. The Berryman QRPS Massey poll (what a name!) awarded FSU the 1987 national championship. The Sagarin Ratings, which were also used by Auburn in determining its new titles, gave FSU the 1992 national championship.
The Dunkel System awarded the Seminoles the championship in 1994, and the Alderson System (which is so close to being the Alderan System for all my Star Wars nerds out there!) gave Florida State the title in 1996.
Add all those up, folks: That’s SIX more national championships for your Seminoles. Six! All in the NCAA Record Book. And they are just as legitimate as the ones Auburn claimed this week. And absolutely more legitimate than any titles won before World War II anyway.
Auburn now “officially” claims 9 national championships
FSU Unclaimed National Titles (as recognized by the NCAA Record Book)
— Clay Fink (@clay_fink) August 19, 2025
🍢 1980
🍢 1987
🍢 1989
🍢 1992
🍢 1994
🍢 1996 pic.twitter.com/topXb9WHYI
If teams claimed titles like Auburn:
— Kyle Umlang (@kyleumlang) August 20, 2025
National Championships | All-Time
23 BAMA
22 ND
18 OSU
17 MICH, OU, USC
11 NEB, PIT
9 AUB, MIA, MIN, LSU, TEX
8 FSU, UGA
7 GT, PSU, TEN
6 MSU
5 ARMY, CAL, IOWA, ILL, UF
4 WASH
3 A&M, CLEM, OLE, SMU, TCU
2 ASU, ARK, MD, MIZ, OKST, STAN
Florida State University’s College of Motion Picture Arts retains its distinction as the fourth-ranked public film school in the nation! 🌟 @FSUFilm also climbed to No. 14 in The Hollywood Reporter’s 2025 rankings of top U.S. film schools, up from No. 17. 🎬
— Florida State University (@FloridaState) August 5, 2025
FSUFilm continues… pic.twitter.com/xC96MuBXlq
Blueblood Programs: 12 teams qualify as college football's best
Program win percentage: T-No. 2 974-341-43 (.733)
Early poll national titles: 1961 (AP, Coaches), 1964 (AP, Coaches)
Later poll national titles: 1965 (AP), 1973 (Coaches), 1978 (AP), 1979 (AP, Coaches), 1992 (AP, Coaches)
BCS/CFP titles: 2009, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2017, 2020
Program win percentage: No. 12 583-291-17 (.664)
Early poll national titles: None
Later poll national titles: 1993 (AP, Coaches)
BCS/CFP titles: 1999, 2013
Program win percentage: No. 11 892-434-54 (.667)
Early poll national titles: None
Later poll national titles: 1980 (AP, Coaches)
BCS/CFP titles: 2021, 2022
Program win percentage: No. 14 815-438-47 (.645)
Early poll national titles: 1958 (AP, Coaches)
Later poll national titles: None
BCS/CFP titles: 2003, 2007, 2019
Program win percentage: No. 15 673-391-19 (.630)
Early poll national titles: None
Later poll national titles: 1983 (AP, Coaches), 1987 (AP, Coaches), 1989 (AP, Coaches), 1991 (AP)
BCS/CFP titles: 2001
Program win percentage: T-No. 2 1,012-358-36 (.733)
Early poll national titles: 1947(AP), 1948 (AP)
Later poll national titles: 1997 (AP)
BCS/CFP titles: 2023
Program win percentage: No. 4 962-339-42 (.732)
Early poll national titles: 1943 (AP), 1946 (AP), 1947 (AP), 1949 (AP)
Later poll national titles: 1966 (AP, Coaches), 1973 (AP), 1977 (AP, Coaches), 1988 (AP, Coaches)
BCS/CFP titles: None
Program win percentage: No. 1 978-335-53 (.735)
Early poll national titles: 1942 (AP), 1954 (AP), 1957 (Coaches)
Later poll national titles: 1968 (AP, Coaches)
BCS/CFP titles: 2002, 2014, 2024
Program win percentage: No. 5 950-348-53 (.723)
Early poll national titles: 1950 (AP, Coaches), 1955 (AP, Coaches), 1956 (AP, Coaches)
Later poll national titles: 1974 (AP), 1975 (AP, Coaches), 1985 (AP, Coaches)
BCS/CFP titles: 2000
Program win percentage: No. 9 875-417-53 (.670)
Early poll national titles: 1951 (AP, Coaches)
Later poll national titles: None
BCS/CFP titles: 1998
Program win percentage: No. 6 961-395-33 (.704)
Early poll national titles: 1963 (AP, Coaches)
Later poll national titles: 1969 (AP, Coaches), 1970 (Coaches)
BCS/CFP titles: 2005
Program win percentage: No. 7 882-374-54 (.694)
Early poll national titles: 1962 (AP, Coaches)
Later poll national titles: 1967 (AP, Coaches), 1972 (AP, Coaches), 1974 (Coaches), 1978 (Coaches)
BCS/CFP titles: 2004 (and may have been jobbed in 2003)
Can't believe it's mid-August and we are still doing the Blue Blood thing. Here are the results of our annual poll -- 175,000+ voters again this year
— Pick Six Previews (@PickSixPreviews) August 11, 2025
Spoiler: it's the same 8 teams every year
Alabama, Michigan, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Texas, USC https://t.co/QUDyNcNLYZ pic.twitter.com/1goiacsQYc
10th Annual Poll - same Top 8 EVERY YEAR
— Pick Six Previews (@PickSixPreviews) February 4, 2026
% that view program as a “Blue Blood”
93% Alabama
93% Ohio St
83% Notre Dame
83% Oklahoma
82% Michigan
76% USC
70% Texas
67% Nebraska
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47% PSU
43% UGA
35% Miami
34% LSU
32% Tennessee
27% FSU
21% Florida
10% Clemson
4% Wash.
4% Auburn
FSU, Andrews Foundation join forces for physician fellowship program in Northwest Florida
Florida State University is deepening its investment in advanced medical training and care in Northwest Florida through a new partnership between the FSU College of Medicine and the Andrews Research & Education Foundation.
The agreement, which became effective Aug. 1, brings the Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Fellowship and the Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship under FSU sponsorship. The fellowships are accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.
“This partnership reflects the strong collaborations we are building that expand educational opportunity, support world-class research and improve the health of communities across our state,” said FSU President Richard McCullough. “We’re excited to team up with Andrews and continue growing FSU’s impact in Northwest Florida.”
Fellowships provide advanced, specialized training that a doctor undertakes after completing medical school and residency, giving them the skills and experience they need to manage both routine health issues and more complex cases.
“For nearly two decades, the Andrews Institute has provided unparalleled care to the residents of Northwest Florida and beyond,” said Dr. Alma Littles, dean of the College of Medicine. “At Florida State, we continually seek to partner with the best-of-the-best and we are delighted to enter this partnership with Andrews. This agreement strengthens our commitment to advancing medical education and improving community health throughout North Florida.”
The Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Fellowship will accept four fellows, while the Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship offers one fellowship slot. With these latest additions, the FSU College of Medicine sponsors 26 programs with more than 330 residents and fellows. It also expands the footprint and positive impact of FSU Health, a transformational initiative to improve health in North Florida by leveraging FSU’s cutting-edge research capabilities and educational programs to forge new partnerships with clinical partners like Andrews.
“This partnership unites two respected institutions with a shared mission to elevate clinical research, academic excellence and innovative patient care,” said Ashton Hayward, president, Andrews Research & Education Foundation. “By leveraging Florida-based talent, the collaboration will foster groundbreaking work in musculoskeletal science, regenerative medicine, biomechanics and surgical innovation. Together, AREF and FSU will create new opportunities for trainees, researchers and health care professionals to contribute to the growth of medical knowledge and improve outcomes for patients throughout Florida and beyond.”
According to Bill Boyer, associate dean for Graduate Medical Education and the Designated Institutional Official for all sponsored GME programs at the College of Medicine, program accreditation and sponsoring institutions are important to fellowship applicants.
“People look to see if a program is university-sponsored,” Boyer said. “They look to see if it is accredited. All of our programs have either initial accreditation or full accreditation and, of course, FSU is continually accredited. Reputation also helps and FSU’s GME programs are known as some of the best — and we fill every slot each year. This, coupled with the outstanding reputation of Andrews will attract the best talent to these programs and to Northwest Florida.”
Discovering the Roots of College Football’s Oldest Rivalries
Some history: Before the Civil War, the juvenile versions of the University of Florida and Florida State were twins, the seminary east of the Sewanee and the seminary west of it. In 1905, the Florida Legislature decided that the college in Gainesville would be for white boys only, the college in Tallahassee for white girls only, and the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical College for black students. That changed in 1947—for the white people anyway. Both UF and FSU went co-ed. Men invaded the campus of the old Florida State College for Women, and within about five minutes put together a football team, named “The Seminoles” by a campus plebiscite (“Tarpons” and “Crackers” were other mascot possibilities), and demanded to play the Gators. UF, longtime members of the mighty Southeastern Conference, reacted as if a back hills sharecropper had applied to join the country club. It took three years of negotiations, the threat of legislation and the intervention of Gov. LeRoy Collins to finally force UF to play FSU in 1958. The Gators won almost all the games in the first ten years. “Never, FSU, never!” they’d say.
They shouted “Never, FSU, never!” that afternoon in 1967 as we sat huddled with the other Seminoles at Florida Field. Then, they stopped.
FSU won 21–16, the first time a Seminole team had beaten the mighty Gators in their own house. The adults jumped up and down like puppies. My godfather said he hated that my father wasn’t there to see it. But for me, joy was, as Mark Twain says, unconfined.
I got my first taste of the pure, identity-fired rapture that comes from your tribe, who are virtuous, noble and fearless, vanquishing the tribe from down the road—who had behaved like complete and utter jackasses. After that, I was hooked on the blood rush and the tackle lust of the game—even if I was only in the fourth grade.
People like me say they bleed garnet and gold, or crimson and white or orange and blue or orange and green—physiologically unlikely, but then we don’t say we are “fans” of the Bulldogs or the Longhorns or the Wolverines or, God help us, the Horned Frogs; we talk as though we actually belong to those species, as in: “My daddy is a Bulldog, and I’m a Bulldog, but my sister went to school in Oregon and now she’s a Duck.” We are who we are because we aren’t those jerks over there in Knoxville or Ann Arbor or Starkeville or College Station or Tempe.
College football divides the universe into Us versus Them, validating Us and dissing Them. That’s the whole point. Those of us who love the game are citizens of a psychic fiefdom, a country with invisible borders. You might belong to the Auburn Family or the Wolfpack. I live in the Seminole Nation—which is ridiculous, because there’s a real Seminole Nation, populated by real Native Americans. I’m appallingly white; they’re descendants of people who refused to surrender to the genocidal Andrew Jackson, who tried to run them out of Florida.
It should be clear by now that the love of college football is a form of madness, a mental disorder that often takes hold in childhood. There’s no rational reason FSU and UF should despise each other so extravagantly. FSU and UF have a great deal in common: both red brick Gothic conglomerations set amidst the oaks of North Florida, both big state universities in smallish towns. Seen from space, Tallahassee and Gainesville look a lot alike. Yet Seminoles will tell you that there’s something fundamentally wrong, wrong at the cellular level, with Gators. Gators will tell you there’s something fundamentally wrong, wrong in the DNA, with Seminoles. Everybody’s correct. But as we limp through this unedifying election season, it might be worth clinging to the evident truth that politics is temporary—presidents come and presidents go—but college football is forever.
