Colin Cowherd has an interesting take on who are the best programs in college football

The picture speaks for itself but earlier today FOX Sports radio host Colin Cowherd put the top college football programs into tiers…

The picture speaks for itself but earlier today FOX Sports radio host Colin Cowherd put the top college football programs into tiers and did not include the Wisconsin Badgers in his list.

Ahead of the Badgers (somehow) is Florida State, Miami and Michigan–all teams who have a lower winning percentage than Wisconsin in the last decade.

Should storied programs like USC, Notre Dame and Texas get the nod over the Badgers? Sure. But I don’t think many would disagree that right now the Wisconsin Badgers are a tier-two college football program.

The long run of consistent success speaks for itself, but if we want to use numbers, look at overall winning percentage the last decade (Hint: the Badgers rank No. 7 behind only Stanford, Oklahoma, Boise State, Clemson, Ohio State and Alabama).

Keep in mind, also, that the Big Ten has been one of the strongest conferences in the country in the last decade and the Badgers have been near the top of it every season.

Are the consistent top-10 recruiting classes there? No, or at least not yet.

But at least in my mind there is no way programs who have struggled mightily recently–Miami and Florida State to name two–should get a nod on this list instead of the Badgers.

If you want to hear his argument about his list, here it is. But it seems like only a national championship will, in Cowherd’s mind, get the Badgers into the second tier.