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despite alot of hype and bloviating, the LSU football program only has a lowly tally of 4 national titles. However, true blue blood programs must have a minimum of 5 titles

I’ll start by saying that I am an LSU fan and do not consider the Tigers to be a “blue blood” program, though we are right on the cusp ranked in the 8-12 range.

Your qualification of “a minimum of 5 national titles” is arbitrary and doesn’t have as much meaning as you claim. There are many other factors that go into it including total victories,
Bowl victories, yearly finishes in rankings, conference championships, Heisman trophy winners, all-Americans, etc. Many of those factors are greatly influenced by subjectivity (polls, awards being voted on, media bias) and the differing levels of competition.

Since you made this to seeming taunt LSU, I’d say of the teams you listed that Alabama,
Michigan, Notre Dame, USC, Ohio State and probably Oklahoma and Nebraska are reasonably above LSU. Miami’s peak years were certainly dominating, but outside of that 25 year period they have little other history.

Finally, I’ll throw in that if you’re using Alabama metrics for counting National titles, that LSU’s number should be at least six including 1908 and 2011 where they were awarded championships by “at least one recognized NCAA” selecting organization.