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Every college football national champion since 2000

Only a handful of college teams have been able to hoist the national championship honor since 2000.

Update: This article was previously published in 2023, but has been updated for 2024.

Only 13 different teams have won the collage national football championship title since 2000.

Given how dominant certain teams have been over the years — from Nick Saban’s Alabama to Ohio State’s reign in the mid-2010s — it should come as no surprise that just 13 teams have dominated the landscape. It’s not easy to become a championship contender overnight in college football and it can take years to rise to the pinnacle in a world of heavyweights.

And the latest to join the ranks is Michigan, who won its first national championship since 1997 after besting Washington. The Wolverines capped off a perfect 15-0 season with a 34-13 victory over the Huskies to bring the national championship back to the Big Ten.

Here is every college football team that has been crowned national champion since 2000.

What school has the most Heisman Trophy winners? It’s a four-way tie for first

Hint: None are SEC teams.

Editor’s note: This story was originally published Sept. 2, 2023 and has been updated.

At the end of each college football regular season, the Heisman Trophy is awarded to the sport’s most outstanding player. But a few schools have produced more winners than everyone else.

In fact, there’s a four-way tie at the top for most Heisman winners in history: Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oklahoma and USC — the latter being the most recent school to tie the record thanks to Trojans quarterback Caleb Williams winning in 2022.

College football’s most sought-after individual award has been given to players from those schools seven times each. However, the Sooners have the advantage when it comes to more recent winners.

Here’s a breakdown of the programs with at least two Heisman Trophy winners in the past, starting with the Fighting Irish, the Buckeyes, the Sooners and the Trojans.

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Every Heisman Trophy winner in college football history (2023)

A look back at every Heisman Trophy winner since the award was first presented in 1935.

The Heisman Trophy is the most coveted individual award in college football and is annually presented to the most outstanding player in a given season.

Over the years, there have been several winners who were running backs, wide receivers or tight ends, quarterbacks have dominated the Heisman race, especially this century, with some notable exceptions. In fact, there’s only ever been one defensive winner, Michigan cornerback Charles Woodson in 1997, and only one player to win it twice (and consecutively), Ohio State running back Archie Griffin in 1974 and 1975.

But in recent years, it’s been all about the quarterbacks with a passer winning the award 19 times since 2000 with the four exceptions: Alabama running backs Mark Ingram (2009) and Derrick Henry (2015), Alabama wide receiver DeVonta Smith (2020) and USC running back Reggie Bush, whose 2005 Heisman win was vacated.

Here’s a look back at every Heisman Trophy winner in chronological order since the award was first presented in 1935.

The 15 most memorable games in Pac-12 football history

College football fans have lived long enough to see the death of one of the sport’s great institutions.

It hasn’t happened many times in history, but college football fans have lived long enough to see the death of one of the sport’s great institutions.

The future of the Pac-12 remains in doubt, but we know for certain that it will never again be the league that it was. It’s hard to imagine a league so essential to the history of this sport, and indeed all of college sports, going away for good but such are the times we find ourselves in.

We at For The Win wanted to take this occasion to commemorate one of the titans of college football history, the Pac-12 Conference, by showcasing our picks for the greatest games in the league’s history.

This list — not a ranking — is admittedly biased towards modern history, as most of us here are millennials who were not fortunate enough to watch the 1930s Rose Bowls in person. With that caveat out of the way, please enjoy this walk through the history of one of college football’s great leagues one last time.

The 8 biggest college football rivalries, ranked

A definitive ranking of the biggest rivalries in college football.

College football is filled with chaos and weirdness, and so much of that is because of the heated rivalries that often run generations deep. So we’re here to rank some of the biggest in the sport.

With so many to choose from and everyone having their own biases and preferences for what makes a good rivalry, this is an extremely difficult task. So, I took an unbiased approach and went to the internet to find a few existing lists to use in the creation of a composite ranking.

Below is a list of the only eight rivalries to make each list I found and their average ranking on those lists. It should give you a good idea of which rivalries are popularly considered the biggest, even if it’s not the most comprehensive.