While waiting for the draft and then the upcoming college football season, as well as my own morbid curiousity, I did some checking into some college football historical stats. I went and found the 10 colleges with the most national championships, and I devised a little "powerhouse scale" to see how they'd match up against one another. Call me biased, but it's just a fun little game.
We're the middle children of history...no purpose or place. We have no Great War, no Great Depression. Our great war, our defining crucible, is a spiritual war.
How did you determine who won a "championship" as there are everyone and their mother awarding championships, from Sagarin to the UPI.
Also, by giving points for divisional titles, you skew the ranking in favor of the SEC, MAC, & Big XII, as they are the only conferences with divisions (until the ACC gets divided this season).
Where are Princeton and Yale, who have won MANY national championships?
"You want to tempt the wrath of the whatever from high atop the thing?" --Toby, West Wing
I went with the stats posted on http://the-w.com/redirect/http://nationalchamps.net/NCAA/database/index.htm . I went as impartial as I could be, if I wasn't then Nebraska wouldn't be listed for 1997. The divisional thing does slightly skew, but that's only two points. You'd have to win divisions three times to even get a one point over a conference win.
National Champs didn't list Princeton, Yale, or Harvard. I will look into them now, though.
We're the middle children of history...no purpose or place. We have no Great War, no Great Depression. Our great war, our defining crucible, is a spiritual war.
Both teams agreed to tone it down. It's like playing touch football and having your leg broke because someone picked you up and tackled you. It wasn't even preseason, just a scrimmage.
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The divisional thing does slightly skew, but that's only two points. You'd have to win divisions three times to even get a one point over a conference win.