All time team rankings

IMO, cfbdatawarehouse is a great source of data and analysis. Their team rankings consider only results on the field, as opposed to ESPN's that put too much weight on subjective things such as Heismans and All-Americans, etc...

So use it!

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This is going on a post in another thread comparing ARK to LSU and LSU not being considered elite status prior to 2003.

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What thread is this?

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all time in the SEC behind Bama, and well ahead of them as we end this decade.

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no way

We're behind Alabama and Tenn, and I think LSU, Georgia, and Florida are all bunched together in that order in the 11-13 range.

Since Arkansas and South Carolina joined, here are program win totals:

1) Florida 170
2) Tennessee 157
3) Georgia 149
4) Auburn 139
5) Alabama 130
6) LSU 125
7) Arkansas 109
8) Ole Miss 107
9) South Carolina 94
10) Miss. St. 89
11) Kentucky 80
12) Vanderbilt 60

I am skeptical of this scoring system. from 2000 - 2008 it shows 10 National Championships.

I don't know about you but I do not recognize USC as the NC in 2003. I think most everyone here agrees with me.

In otherwords, this system still has subjective elements in it.

It is a good site for stats. But stats isn't everything. There is alot more to football. Football was king in Louisiana when I moved to Baton Rouge in the mid-90s. LSU wanted to be champions, were they? No, look at the quarter century rankings 1974-1999. 61st in win pct. 23rd in overall points, 27th in Big 4 Bowl. Elite? No. Of course, you guys pursued and eventually found a coach that could keep talent in-state and do something with them in Nick Saban. And boom... championships.

The original thread was about coaches and someone posted that Arkansas is ok with mediocre coaches because we are not used to winning.

Arkansas has had and has produced great football coaches: Bear Bryant, Lou Holtz, Frank Broyles, Jimmy Johnson, Ken Hatfield, Tommy Tubberville, and Barry Switzer. Hey, we also had Jerry Jones as well.

Ole Miss fans are going to pipe up and say Houston Nutt. And look how Gus Malzahn is doing.

1958-1976 Frank Broyles 71% win pct
1977-1983 Lou Holtz 74% win pct
1984-1989 Ken Hatfield 76% win pct

Arkansas has a tradition of producing great football coaches. The Razorbacks expect to win, and we want to build on our tradition. I believe Bobby is picking up where we left off in 1989.

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So - since Bear Bryant is from the state of Arkansas, he legendary status also allows the Universtiy of Arkansas to take credit? This makes no sense.

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Exactly! Coach Bryant was from Arkansas but he played and finished his coaching career at Alabama.

The same goes for all of those other coaches mentioned from Arkansas. If they didn't have success while coaching the Razorbacks, I don't see how any of their fans can claim them IMO.