re: Historical Elite Program Rankings

No it is not Kyle, that is why many do lots of hard research on football and look at rosters down to the last man, compare the schedules, scoring, look at the records of team, what little we can dig up on formations, stats, which players made all conference, all American, who were the coaches (this really matters) down to the assistant coaches. What was their recruiting like (harder to come by pass 1950, will tell you the first national known recruit was Young Bussy in the middle 30's). Look at the over all teams depth and see what the players did.

Once you go back to Iron man football it gets easier to tell the best teams.

Ranking teams all time is not an easy matter it takes lots of time and lots of research 1000s of hours.

Not grab a poll do some quick math system and say x is correct.

The more work put into a matter of this type the better the result will be in the long run.