re: ESPN - The 50 best college football programs over 150 years

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They are the most consistent program in college football over the last half decade.

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Good point. Couple thoughts on this list and how things have changed. Firstly, the schools that have long since stopped being committed to playing major college football like Yale should be delisted.

Notre Dame used to be the only school that could truly recruit nationally through a nationwide network of Catholic Parochial Schools that where often football factories. Everyone one else was largely confined to in state or regional high school players. That has changed.

Alabama has now clearly entered into an undisputed era of top billing. Arguably the two greatest Head coaches of all time. They’re going to be on top for a long time even if they have a prolonged downturn.

Ohio State has four coaches that have won a national championship. Ohio State is the most consistent even though they’ve never been considered the top program. Oklahoma, Michigan, USC, Notre Dame and Alabama at some point in their history could make a reasonable claim to being king.