Which Schools are "Blue Blood" Programs?
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Ulty
All-Conference
The top 8 of the list are shoo-ins for sure. No brainers.
The next 8 are iffy, but possibly warrant inclusion.
- Washington and Auburn simply are not at the level of the other 16 on this list.
- I would disqualify Penn St, because without Paterno that program is nothing, and Paterno can burn in hell.
- The others are all up there in terms of total # of wins, and bowl wins and appearances. Tennessee and Georgia don't have the same championship hardware as the others but lots of wins.
- Florida, FSU, Miami, LSU, and Clemson all have multiple national championships spanning multiple coaches, but they don't have the same historical pedigree as the top 8. They are a solid second-tier historically. More of a new-money vs old-money sort of deal.
The next 8 are iffy, but possibly warrant inclusion.
- Washington and Auburn simply are not at the level of the other 16 on this list.
- I would disqualify Penn St, because without Paterno that program is nothing, and Paterno can burn in hell.
- The others are all up there in terms of total # of wins, and bowl wins and appearances. Tennessee and Georgia don't have the same championship hardware as the others but lots of wins.
- Florida, FSU, Miami, LSU, and Clemson all have multiple national championships spanning multiple coaches, but they don't have the same historical pedigree as the top 8. They are a solid second-tier historically. More of a new-money vs old-money sort of deal.
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Guy Chamberlin
Heisman Trophy Winner
Minus a couple Ivy League teams, that's pretty much the list of the winningest football programs in college football history.
Not so much a matter of perception.
Not so much a matter of perception.
The top nine are all in the top 12 of all-time wins (with Yale, Harvard and Penn). The next two D-1 programs on that list are Tennessee and Georgia. I was going to include Georgia with the other 9 but since Tennessee has more wins and more national titles, I included both of them as well.
Wunderkind
Four-Star Recruit
Ditto, but then it's questionable whether either should be in there. At best at the bottom of the blue bloods. If you could only do a top ten who would you take out, Tennessee or Georgia? Looking at the top nine we have 4 Big Ten, 2 Big 12, and only 1 SEC, PAC, and independent. 0 ACC. Top 11 brings us to 3 SEC.
Mierin
Assistant Coach
Growing up I always thought of Clemson and Georgia as big programs even though they hadn't won any national championships since before I was born. They were just talked about a lot like they were big programs. I think if you subtract Clemson's last 5 years or so, they would be about equal with Washington or LSU or Auburn. (Admittedly, I don't know much about LSU or Auburn).
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Comish
All-Conference
Wondering if the list could be expanded down to a 100 so we could see where Iowa checks in ??
JJ Husker
Assistant Coach
I don't think Clemson was a blip on the football map until we played them in the 82 Orange Bowl. If you subtract their last 5 years they wouldn't even be in the conversation. LSU has been a thing for quite a long time but for some reason I just don't consider them a blue blood program. Washington, not even close.
huskered17
All-Conference
It would be interesting to see what this list would look like 30 yrs from now. Could be flipped, with maybe 2 or 3 of today's top 10, still in the top 10.
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