It’s the pinnacle of goals for the top college football programs these days. Ever since the postseason of the sport moved to a “playoff” in 2014, teams like Ohio State, Alabama, Clemson, and Oklahoma have been mainstays in getting into the College Football Playoff that pits the so-called best four teams in the country. It’s all designed to have the best of the best every season play for the national championship.
Since its inception, there have been a surprisingly small number of teams make it into the CFP, and that has brought forth momentum for expansion of the playoff. And while that has been tabled, as you’ll see, there is an upper-crust that’s been hard for other teams to bite off.
We decided to go through the various college football programs and rank them based on how many appearances they’ve had in the College Football Playoff in its short history thus far.