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

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15. LSU 
59.0 | 4 national titles 

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I know of 1958, 2003 and 2007. What year is the fourth?

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I know of 1958, 2003 and 2007. What year is the fourth?

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They may be counting 1908, they shared it with Pennsylvania that year.

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1908 LSU, Pennsylvania NCF, HAF, NCF

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NCAA

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Awarded before the bowl game in which they lost to the team with a rightful claim.

I’d be pretty ashamed of claiming that one, but that’s just me.

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I notice you avoid 1966 when you are passing judgment.

A Notre Dame team that went for a tie won the NC over an undefeated and untied Alabama team that had already won the national title the previous two years.

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I agree Bama is number 1. Easily. It's a fact. But why for the love do gumps continually claim titles that don't exist. They claim 32. It's only 11. A measly 8 more than LSU.

It was an inferiority complex to Notre Dame that allowed some baws to go off the rails and getting all AOC with titles. “Free titles for err’body”.

Looking back, they wish they never did “the reach”. It looks petty. It looks desperate.

But they had no clue that Saban would take them on this run. An epic run.

Also, Notre Dame looked like they could pluck whoever they wanted and they had the media on their side for the polls.

So the time was now. They wanted to be relevant. And look at the aTm boys who post here. Does forcing relevancy look cool to you? No.

They wanted to be in the conversation about #of titles. Bear was dead, Perkins didn’t kept the ball rolling. They had to act.....”Hey, we actually might have won the title that year. Is is illegal to claim it? No! It’s ours, now.”

They look silly now for doing it, because the credibility was siphoned when they made an egregious reach . If everyone used the same criteria as bama used, they would be two or three schools each year for the 130 of the last 150 years.....or 300+ claims to national titles.

Thank goodness everyone else just took what the major, non-obscure polls gave them.

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It was an inferiority complex to Notre Dame that allowed some baws to go off the rails and getting all AOC with titles. “Free titles for err’body”.

Looking back, they wish they never did “the reach”. It looks petty. It looks desperate.

But they had no clue that Saban would take them on this run. An epic run.

Also, Notre Dame looked like they could pluck whoever they wanted and they had the media on their side for the polls.

So the time was now. They wanted to be relevant. And look at the aTm boys who post here. Does forcing relevancy look cool to you? No.

They wanted to be in the conversation about #of titles. Bear was dead, Perkins didn’t kept the ball rolling. They had to act.....”Hey, we actually might have won the title that year. Is is illegal to claim it? No! It’s ours, now.”

They look silly now for doing it, because the credibility was siphoned when they made an egregious reach . If everyone used the same criteria as bama used, they would be two or three schools each year for the 130 of the last 150 years.....or 300+ claims to national titles.

Thank goodness everyone else just took what the major, non-obscure polls gave them.

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You really have no clue about what you are talking about. Perhaps you should research the topic before posting.

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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.

Yale at #7 is hilarious.

Yes he failed to win any hardware but you gotta give Dinardo credit for beginning the attitude of keeping Louisiana boys in purple and gold. Then Saban perfected it.