re: Top 32 winningest programs of all time - still amazing we're 24th after such a bad decade

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Top 32 winningest programs of all time

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Let's be real.

The correct metric is winning percentage to account for teams not playing the same number of games since the beginning of time.

Further, I would say I don't give a shite about football prior to World War 2. Honestly, don't really give a shite about pre-integration either but the war feels like a more fair diving line for the modern era.

Baseball nerds give a shite about the beginning of time but most football fans do not.

So going by 1946-2023, I come up with the following top 20:

1. Ohio State - 77.2%
2. Oklahoma - 76.6%
3. Boise State - 76.1%
4. Alabama - 74.9%
5. Penn State - 72.5%
6. Michigan - 71.5%
7. Notre Dame - 69.9%
8. Texas - 69.6%
9. USC - 69.0%
10. UGA - 68.8%
11. FSU - 67.8%
12. Nebraska - 67.0%
13. Tennessee - 65.9%
14. LSU 65.8%
15. Clemson - 65.7%
16. Florida - 64.7%
17. Miami (FL) - 63.6%
18. Auburn - 63.5%
19. Arizona St. - 63.5%
20. UCLA - 61.3%
21. West By God Virginia - 59.6%
22. Toledo - 59.5%
23. BYU - 59.4%
24. Arkansas - 59.1%
25. Michigan State - 59%

Arkansas still comes in at 24th.

The most noticeable difference is Boise, FSU and Miami.

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Alabama had 21 wins vacated 2005, 06, 07; & 8 wins and 1 tie forfeited 1993.

Ohio State had 12 wins vacated 2010.

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Vacated wins is another reason to use winning percentage because those games shouldn't be counted for or against you.

Now start with the 21st century

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I like how A&M drops completely out of that one

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An excellent observation

If I run it again for 1970 to 2023 (basically post-integration), Aggies fare much better.

1. Ohio State - 79.2%
2. Alabama - 77.9%
3. Oklahoma - 76.6%
4. Boise - 76.1%
5. Michigan - 74.4%
6. UGA - 72.8%
7. Penn State - 72.6%
8. Nebraska - 72.4%
9. FSU - 70.7%
10. USC - 69.7%
11. Notre Dame - 69.7%
12. Texas - 68.5%
13. Clemson - 68.1%
14. Florida - 67.2%
15. BYU - 66.9%
16. LSU - 66.3%
17. Miami (FL) - 65.9%
18. Auburn - 65.6%
19. Tennessee - 65.4%
20. Texas A&M - 62.4%
21. Washington - 61.6%
22. Virginia Tech - 60.7%
23. Toledo - 60.6%
24. West By God Virginia - 60.4%
25. UCLA - 60%

Arkansas has 57.8% and is next highest SEC team
Oregon is at 59.2% as they dug themselves quite a hole in the 70s and 80s.

also interesting is that the bar to get into the top 25 got higher
my guess is more teams racking up those rent-a-wins
seems I remember in my youth that a rent-a-win in the 70s or 80s was a bottom feeder from another conference like say Rice or Oregon State and not a directional school from your home state

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Boise State scored all those wins against the Western Rocky Mountain Deaf Sisters of the Central Wyoming Poor

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also a fair point
it will be very interesting to see how they fare with the expanded CFP
they certainly held their own with the current #1 ranked team in September

Oklahoma regularly plays 2 of the Top 10 - Nebraska and Texas, until Nebraska left for the Big 10.

None of the crap SEC divisions BS

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Mizzery fan is mad his team is barely top 50, if that.

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