re: Is LSU a blue blood? Is Georgia?

No. To me blue blood means multiple championships over multiple decades.

Alabama
Ohio State
USC
Notre Dame
Michigan
Texas
Oklahoma

That’s it.

No. Bama is the only SEC blue blood.

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Teams like LSU and Clemson are new money.

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This is such horseshite. I'm not arguing we're "blue bloods" because I think we're just outside of that tier, but LSU won a title in 1908 and 1958 for fricks sake.

We've won 5 national titles now in 4 different decades.

If you take out the Ivys, these are LSU's ranks:

- 12th all time in wins
- 14th all time winning %
- 10th all time in weeks in AP poll
- 11th all time in weeks at #1 in AP poll
- 8th all time in bowl game appearances

All of these stats combined make LSU a top 8 all time program. There are not many teams that are this highly ranked in all of these metrics.

Blue blood teams were created before 1980. The teams considered to have a great history from 1930-1980. They need a revised, legitimate list of blue bloods since then.

Miami
Bama
LSU
Clemson
Florida
FSU
Ohio State
Maybe ND, USC, Nebraska, Auburn

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Blue blood teams were created before 1980. The teams considered to have a great history from 1930-1980. They need a revised, legitimate list of blue bloods since then. Miami Bama LSU Clemson Florida FSU Ohio State Maybe ND, USC, Nebraska, Auburn

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For discussion sake:
1930 -1979 by winning percentage
Alabama 0.76046 388 114 24 526
2 Notre Dame 0.74900 365 116 19 500
3 Oklahoma 0.74184 375 123 23 521
4 Ohio State 0.74038 336 111 21 468
5 Tennessee 0.71305 360 138 23 521
6 Michigan 0.70607 330 133 15 478
7 Texas 0.70437 363 148 15 526
8 Southern Cal 0.70339 358 142 31 531
9 Penn State 0.69897 331 138 16 485
10 Miami-Ohio. 0.68776 323 142 17 482

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1980 - 2019

1 Boise State 0.77994 241 68 0 309
2 Ohio State 0.77744 380 107 5 492
3 Florida State 0.74797 366 122 4 492
4 Oklahoma 0.74402 371 126 5 502
5 Nebraska 0.73366 370 134 1 505
6 Miami-Florida 0.72912 358 133 0 491
7 Florida 0.72345 359 136 4 499
8 Georgia 0.72156 359 137 5 501
9 Alabama 0.71926 350 136 2 488
10 Penn State 0.71053 350 142 2 494


Obviously not the only metric to consider

Bama
Ohio State
Michigan
Notre Dame
USC
Texas
Nebraska
Oklahoma

These are your blue bloods. LSU just outside that

No and no.

LSU is close. If we keep winning over the next 10 years like we have been, I think you can bump us up. We'll need a few more conference titles and another natty to be honest. Blue Blood is not what are you doing now, but more what have you done in your entire history. We have more work to do.

UGA needs a lot more nattys...like 3-4 over the next 15-20 years to be in consideration. All-time considered, UGA is still solidly behind UA, UT, and LSU and maybe UF in conference pecking order.

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There's only about 7-8 actual blue bloods in cfb history. Hint- only 1 is from the sec

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Better question. When does blue blood status end ? Texas and Notre Dame, Penn St and Nebraska, I contend they shouldn't be on list any longer. Bama and OSU certainly are. Oklahoma is considered a blue blood and I believe they still belong on the list.

LSU is closest to joining the blue blood group.

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Up until the dawn of the 21st century, LSU had three 10-win seasons in their entire history. Alabama had five seasons of 10 wins or more in the 90s alone. LSU is about as new money as it gets for college football.

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No one is saying we're Alabama. This isn't about you.

But this argument is disingenuous because of schedule expansion. LSU was a top program in the late 50s/early 60s. We have a goddamn national title in 1908 and 1958. If that is "new money" to you I don't know what the frick to tell you. We had a bad 90s obviously and people seem to think that we didn't exist before that. "New money as it gets in college football" is absurdly hyperbolic and incorrect. There are plenty of teams that fall into the "new money" category, LSU isn't one just because we sucked in the 90s.

I averaged all the metrics I listed and LSU came in at 10th all time with Nebraska ahead of them, which I think we've surpassed.

These are the results averaging ranks of all time wins, weeks in AP poll, weeks at #1, bowl game appearances, and all time win %:

1 Alabama
2 Ohio State
3 Oklahoma
4 Michigan
5 Texas
6 USC
7 Nebraska
8 Notre Dame
9 Penn State
10 LSU
11 Tennessee
12 Georgia
13 Florida
14 Clemson
15 Auburn
16 Washington
17 Texas A&M
18 Michigan State
19 Georgia Tech
20 West Virginia
21 Virginia Tech
22 Pittsburgh
23 Arkansas
24 Army
25 Colorado

FYI the averages had a pretty big drop off after Georgia at 12.