re: College Football Blue Bloods: Ranking The 25 Best Football Schools

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I personally think the whole claim of a team being a 'blue blood' is...dumb. As mentioned by others there's no real criteria and it's just a made up title for programs with rich tradition.

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This list is screwed up because the list is simply "10 win seasons"... and the author should have left it at that.

As you say... "Blue Blood" connotates "royalty"... which is championships and "old money and status" which means that your ancient titles are still part of the equation.

Thus a team like Nebraska is still a "blue blood" simply because they have more titles than all but a handful of schools.

But they also demonstrate another phenomenon and that is how old money disappates with generations (ie: Nebraska hasn't been elite in twenty years).

In real life I was reading about a family reunion recently of the Vanderbilts. There were like 200 of them at the reunion. None of them were millionaires because the family money had been divided so much. So basically that is what happened to Nebraska.