No school has accumulated more wins in the history of college football than the Michigan Wolverines. And no matter what happens during the 2022 season, nothing is going to change that. The Wolverines will enter and end the 2022 college football season with a firm lead on every other school when it comes to counting up all-time wins. In fact, the Wolverines are inching closer and closer to being the first 1,000-game winner in the sport, although that goal will have to wait at least one more season.
But by the end of the 2022 season, there could very well be a new member of college football’s top 10 all-time wins leaderboard with the reigning national champion Georgia Bulldogs on the doorstep of the No. 10 position in the all-time rankings. The Bulldogs could even move as far up as No. 9 from their current position, No. 11.
A couple of ties within the top 10 could be broken this season as the top 10 shuffles its order a little bit. Alabama and Ohio State are currently tied for No. 2 on the all-time wins list according to Winsipedia, each with 942 wins entering the 2022 season. Oklahoma and Texas are tied with 928 all-time wins, with the Sooners and Longhorns each one win behind Notre Dame’s all-time mark of 929.
Penn State recently moved ahead of Nebraska within the all-time top 10 and enters the upcoming season with a one-game lead on the Huskers, 909 to 908. But Tennessee and USC, each with 856 all-time wins, are each seeing Georgia pull up quickly in the rearview mirror with 853 wins and counting.
So let’s take a look at what the top 10 all-time wins list will look like at the end of the 2022 season. To do so, we’ll take the rolling five-year average of wins, round down to the nearest whole, and add that to each school’s current all-time mark. To keep things even, we’ll even toss out the 2020 season from the calculations. If the law of averages plays out, what will the top 10 look like at the end of the season?