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8/2/2016, 03:09 PM
The Associated Press wanted to find a way to rank every college football program against each other. Luckily, it has a long-running metric that can help with those calculations right in its back pocket.
The ranked list of 100 programs, released Tuesday by the AP, is the organization's first list putting schools against each other using all-time success as a measuring stick.
"College football is rich with history, and the AP poll is a unique measure of how the sport has changed through time," deputy sports editor Noreen Gillespie said prior to the list's release. "The all-time list lets fans interact with that history, and debate how the nation's top programs fared over time."
According to the AP, the rankings were based on total poll appearances, number of times ranked No. 1 and AP national championships. The AP poll started on Oct. 19, 1936, with 20 teams before getting reduced to 10 teams (1961-67) and then expanding back to 20 in 1968. The AP Top 25, as we know it today, started with the 1989 football season.
Check out the 1-100 list below, but head over to the AP for breakdowns of the top 25 teams and point differentials for the remaining 75.
Ohio State: 77.24 percent of all AP polls
Oklahoma: 71.08 percent of all AP polls
Notre Dame: 69.45 percent of all AP polls
Alabama: 67.54 percent of all AP polls
Southern California: 67.36 percent of all AP polls
Nebraska
Michigan
Texas
Florida State
Florida
I only posted the top 10. Here is a link to the rest.
http://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/where-does-your-team-rank-ap-releases-top-100-college-football-teams-of-all-time/
The ranked list of 100 programs, released Tuesday by the AP, is the organization's first list putting schools against each other using all-time success as a measuring stick.
"College football is rich with history, and the AP poll is a unique measure of how the sport has changed through time," deputy sports editor Noreen Gillespie said prior to the list's release. "The all-time list lets fans interact with that history, and debate how the nation's top programs fared over time."
According to the AP, the rankings were based on total poll appearances, number of times ranked No. 1 and AP national championships. The AP poll started on Oct. 19, 1936, with 20 teams before getting reduced to 10 teams (1961-67) and then expanding back to 20 in 1968. The AP Top 25, as we know it today, started with the 1989 football season.
Check out the 1-100 list below, but head over to the AP for breakdowns of the top 25 teams and point differentials for the remaining 75.
Ohio State: 77.24 percent of all AP polls
Oklahoma: 71.08 percent of all AP polls
Notre Dame: 69.45 percent of all AP polls
Alabama: 67.54 percent of all AP polls
Southern California: 67.36 percent of all AP polls
Nebraska
Michigan
Texas
Florida State
Florida
I only posted the top 10. Here is a link to the rest.
http://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/where-does-your-team-rank-ap-releases-top-100-college-football-teams-of-all-time/