re: The Top 5 greatest college baseball programs of all time

Saying "easier roads" is also arbitrary. Once you get to Omaha, not only are you facing one of the best teams in the country, you are facing one of the hottest teams in the country. I don't think any game in Omaha should be termed as "easy".

I used this wiki to data source the numbers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_College_World_Series_appearances_by_team

If there was a metric I'd change about the algorithm, I would exclude college world series numbers from the wooden bat era. I believe 1974 was the 1st season colleges used aluminum bats. Thus I would prefer to exclude any CWS stats prior '74. Unfortunately, I don't have a dataset with those numbers and it would be a pain in the butt to go thru every team on the aforementioned listed and manual put together post 1974 numbers.