IMO, too many holes in the resume for these. They are elite for sure, but not bluebloods

My Program Rankings (using a metric I won’t share because uninformed people flip out over the tiniest inputs):

BLUEBLOODS
1. Alabama- 1294
2. Oklahoma- 1033
3. Ohio State- 1013
4. Notre Dame- 871

ELITES
5. Michigan- 818
6. USC- 783
7. LSU- 665
8. Georgia- 664
9. Nebraska- 663
10. Texas- 657
11. Florida St- 606
12. Florida- 566
13. Penn St- 566
14. Miami- 565
15. Clemson- 526
16. Tennessee- 519
17. Auburn- 477

SOLID PROGRAMS
18. Michigan State- 361
19. UCLA- 330
20. Washington- 325
21. Texas A&M- 297
22. Oregon- 284
23. Wisconsin- 282
24. TCU- 268
25. Arkansas- 266

Michigan winning the title last season shrunk the gap between #4 Notre Dame the #5 team considerably… as Michigan jumped ahead of USC after winning a title last year.

It takes literal decades to gain or lose blue blood status, and to be honest, Notre Dame is going on close to three decades of being just a notch above average. If Michigan were to jump above Notre Dame in the coming years, I’d be more inclined to say there are just three blue bloods rather than move a 5th team up to the group. Bottom line is Notre Dame is dangerously close to losing blue blood status, IMO.