The AP Poll has been ranking college football teams for a long time — since 1935 to be exact. During that time, debate has been plentiful and controversy arising from human bias has been hard to eliminate. That alone is most likely what drives our fandom … the, shall I say, discussion of who is in fact the better team.
College Football News decided to start giving us the AP’s all-time football programs with a somewhat scientific approach. Taking into account final rankings with a simple scoring system. The AP national champion in each season gets 25 points, the No. 2 team gets 24 points, and so on down the line.
Last year, Ohio State came in as the No. 3 team in history, but this year leapfrogged Oklahoma, which had a steady hold on No. 1 for several years. However, the Sooners’ down season dropped the program a couple of spots.
Let’s see how the rest of the top 25 ranked according to College Football News and Pete Fiutak’s system.