Ranking the 1. 0 best college football programs of each decade. I've got a Kickstarter going to fund my next book idea. It's going to be titled The 5. Best* College Football Teams of All- Time. The asterisk is very important, as it's not actually about the best teams at all. It's about the teams that were the most interesting, innovative, or impactful. Teams that moved the game forward, or came up just short, or came out of nowhere. You can find the almost complete list of teams at the link above - - they span from 1. Chicago (the first team to master the forward pass) to 2. Auburn (the team that mastered both the spread option and heart- stopping finishes). Only a few programs are represented more than once. I'm excited about the list, and I'm excited about the progress. Please donate if the project sounds interesting. So the book is not about the actual best teams. This week's posts, however, are. Using some of the methods I use for my S& P+ ratings (only, limited to just points scored and allowed), I have crafted estimated S& P+ ratings for every FBS team going back to 1. I did something similar at Football Outsiders back in 2. I have improved my methods since then.)Over the coming days, we will use these ratings to look at the most dominant offenses and defenses, the . The book itself won't further any sort of true . Going by average Estimated S& P+ ratings, we'll use program averages to look at the top 1. Before that decade, it was pretty much just a bunch of Ivies.(NOTE: You had to play for at least five seasons in a decade to get inclusion. Apologies to the wartime Pre- Flight teams. And to the surprisingly awesome 1. Tennessee State.)1. Avg. Percentile Rating. Decade record. 1Harvard. Yale. 93. 0%1. 06- 7- 5. Princeton. 88. 4%1. Penn. 85. 2%1. 24- 1. Wisconsin. 78. 3%5. Cornell. 68. 4%6.
Michigan. 67. 6%6. Dartmouth. 62. 4%4. Minnesota. 61. 3%4. Brown. 60. 1%5. 5- 4. I'm including the average percentile rankings here so you can see how teams were separated. In the 1. 89. 0s, with only 3. FBS level, this is really a top four and everybody else. Harvard and Yale were on one plane, Princeton and Penn were on another (4- 9 vs. Yale, 2. 28- 1. 4- 6 against everybody else), and nobody else cleared the 8. The South would get involved soon enough. Sewanee's early dominance brought attention to Southern football. Percentile Rating. Decade record. 1Yale. There have been many great college basketball teams to take the court, but what are the top 25 basketball programs of all-time? Minnesota. 89. 5%8. Vanderbilt. 86. 6%5. Sewanee. 86. 3%5. Harvard. 86. 3%9. Michigan. 84. 8%8. Princeton. 82. 8%7. Wisconsin. 81. 0%5. Penn. 78. 6%1. 00- 1. Get the latest NCAA basketball news, scores, stats, standings. It's time to find the best future announcers in college basketball. Jamie Squire/Getty Images. 7d Adam Finkelstein and.Ranking the 10 best college football programs of each decade. Only a few programs are represented more than. All Rights Reserved Sports data School Athletes Seeking Scholarships: The Best NCAA Division I Athletics Programs for. Chicago. 77. 1%8. The sport's second tier got a little bit more fleshed out in the 1. Michigan and Minnesota mastered the game, and Amos Alonzo Stagg's Chicago put up serious points. But even as the rules of the sport changed drastically in 1. Yale remained the lone powerhouse. The South discovered the sport during this time. The state of Tennessee did, anyway. Vanderbilt and Sewanee (a. The University of the South) rolled through local competition, and the 1. Commodores graded out as the single best team of the decade. The rest of the region would catch up pretty quickly. Avg. Percentile Rating. Decade record. 1Minnesota. List of NCAA Division I men's soccer programs This is a list of. As of the 2016 NCAA Division I men's soccer season. NCAA Sports Sponsorship Listings; NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Home. Notre Dame. 87. 8%4. Georgia Tech. 83. Auburn. 83. 1%6. 0- 1. Texas. 82. 7%6. 4- 1. Harvard. 80. 7%6. Nebraska. 80. 4%5. Vanderbilt. 79. 7%6. Georgia. 77. 3%4. Georgetown. 77. 0%5. For obvious reasons, World War I shook up the sport's power balance. Michigan and Yale struggled to maintain traction over the latter half of the decade, and only a few programs managed to play consistently. Those that did represented just about every geographical base east of the Rocky Mountains. Minnesota was strong, and new programs from South Bend and Lincoln figured things out quickly. Georgia Tech, Auburn, Vanderbilt and Georgia gave the South some heft, Texas came out of relative nowhere, and Harvard and Georgetown (with six one- loss seasons) kept some of the power on the East Coast. When the war ended, college football was emerging throughout the country. As Minnesota faded, there was no true power base. In 1. 92. 5, Notre Dame became NOTRE DAME. Percentile Rating. Decade record. 1USC9. Notre Dame. 91. 6%8. Army. 84. 8%5. 6- 1. Nebraska. 84. 2%5. Pittsburgh. 84. 1%6. California. 83. 9%7. Georgia Tech. 80. Vanderbilt. 80. 6%6. Michigan. 80. 5%5. Georgia. 79. 7%6. In 1. 92. 2, USC's first season at this level, it went 1. Penn State in the Rose Bowl. The Trojans wouldn't lose more than two games in a season until 1. With Knute Rockne having taken over in 1. Notre Dame blazed through the decade, as well. This was the first time since the 1. Another power was emerging. Alabama was too inconsistent to make this list - - 1. Tide went 1. 9- 0- 1 in 1. Avg. Percentile Rating. Decade record. 1Alabama. Tennessee. 90. 2%8. Pittsburgh. 89. 7%7. Notre Dame. 87. 8%6. Utah. 86. 7%5. 9- 2. Fordham. 85. 9%6. Minnesota. 84. 5%5. Ohio State. 83. 5%5. Santa Clara. 82. 7%5. Duke. 82. 0%7. 7- 1. USC's and Notre Dame's grips on the sport were sudden and fleeting. USC went through a mid- 1. Notre Dame took a slight step backwards and two Southern powerhouses emerged. Under Frank Thomas and Bob Neyland, Alabama and Tennessee went, on average, 1. Outside of the South, programs kept emerging and fading. Pittsburgh and Fordham fought for Northeastern supremacy, Minnesota surged and slid, and in the sudden USC void, programs like Utah and Santa Clara destroyed local rivals but were too geographically isolated to play many big teams. Fritz Crisler's Wolverines were the most consistent power of the 1. Percentile Rating. Decade record. 1Michigan. Notre Dame. 91. 2%8. Texas. 89. 4%7. 8- 2. Duke. 85. 7%5. 9- 2. Alabama. 85. 7%6. Tennessee. 85. 0%6. Army. 83. 8%6. 8- 1. Penn. 83. 4%5. 7- 2. Navy. 82. 3%4. 1- 3. Hardin- Simmons. 80. Again, war shook up the sport in obvious ways. Army, Navy and Notre Dame stocked up on transfer talent and ruled the sport, but these are decade- long averages - - Army wasn't impressive at the beginning of the decade, and Navy bottomed out at the end. Penn gave the Ivy League one final power run, and Texas' Hardin- Simmons was pretty awesome. Warren Woodson's Cowboys went 2. They were briefly the class of the Border Conference. Avg. Percentile Rating. Decade record. 1Oklahoma. Ole Miss. 87. 3%8. Michigan State. 86. UCLA8. 1. 7%6. 8- 2. Georgia Tech. 81. Ohio State. 81. 0%6. Texas. 80. 9%6. 4- 3. Navy. 80. 6%5. 5- 3. Wisconsin. 80. 3%5. Notre Dame. 80. 1%6. Notre Dame and Alabama bottomed out in the latter half of the decade, and each year it was basically Oklahoma and someone else at the top. Bud Wilkinson's Sooners won 4. AP top- 1. 0 nine times in the decade, and other programs like John Vaught's Ole Miss, Biggie Munn's Michigan State, Red Sanders' UCLA and Bobby Dodd's Georgia Tech made runs. Only three of the top 1. Texas, Navy, Notre Dame) remained in the top 1. And then Bear Bryant moved to Tuscaloosa. Bear Bryant was too busy winning games to enjoy posing for group pictures. Percentile Rating. Decade record. 1Alabama. Ole Miss. 92. 6%7. Penn State. 88. 0%7. Texas. 87. 5%8. 6- 1. Arkansas. 85. 9%8. Purdue. 83. 8%6. 5- 2. Notre Dame. 83. 6%6. Michigan State. 82. LSU8. 1. 9%7. 6- 2. Tennessee. 81. 3%6. Alabama got crushed by eventual national champion Auburn in 1. Jennings Whitworth and gave Bryant a call. By 1. 95. 9, he had the Tide back in the AP top 1. By 1. 96. 1, he had won a national title. His program faded a hair near the end of the decade, but with three national titles (and very nearly a fourth), Alabama was the class of football again. A lot of other programs were getting their respective acts together. Ole Miss was still going strong, but Joe Paterno took over for Rip Engle at Penn State, Darrell Royal got rolling at Texas, Frank Broyles fielded his best Arkansas teams, Duffy Daugherty engineered back- to- back AP runner- up finishes at Michigan State, and under Jack Mollenkopf, Purdue went on a hell of a run in the late- 1. Avg. Percentile Rating. Decade record. 1Alabama. Oklahoma. 96. 8%1. Nebraska. 95. 8%9. USC9. 3. 7%9. 3- 2. Michigan. 93. 1%9. Texas. 92. 3%8. 8- 2. Notre Dame. 91. 6%9. Ohio State. 91. 2%9. Penn State. 91. 0%9. Arkansas. 82. 4%7. Behold, the most power- based, imbalanced decade in college football's history. Penn State averaged a 9. Nittany Lions were ninth in the 1. Bryant and his integrated, wishbone- based Crimson Tide became even more dominant. Nebraska was consistently incredible, and Barry Switzer got Oklahoma rolling again. USC finished in the AP top two five times, Bo Schembechler's Wolverines caught Woody Hayes' Buckeyes, Notre Dame made a national title run with Dan Devine and Texas was consistently awesome. This was either college football's best or worst decade. This is when coaches took on infallible personas, when schools began stockpiling talent and playing keepaway, and when true brands took shape. Without the 1. 97. But at the same time, it was harder than ever for anyone outside of the balance of power to break down these barriers. There weren't many top- 1. The national title was elusive for the consistently dominant Tom Osborne. Percentile Rating. Decade record. 1Nebraska. Miami. 94. 3%9. 9- 2. Florida State. 92. Oklahoma. 91. 1%9. Michigan. 90. 4%9. Alabama. 90. 3%8. Notre Dame. 88. 9%7. UCLA8. 8. 6%8. 2- 3. Auburn. 86. 7%8. 6- 3. Georgia. 86. 7%8. With three national titles in the 1. Tom Osborne eventually found pay dirt. But in the 1. 98. Nebraska was a tragic tale. The Huskers were easily the most consistent power - - Miami and Florida State didn't emerge at a truly dominant level until about 1. Hurricanes were most certainly not the best team in the country when they won the national title in 1. Oklahoma hit an early- 8. Notre Dame hired Gerry Faust, etc. But while Nebraska won at least nine games every single year and went 2. Still, this decade was known for the emergence of Miami and FSU. The two programs butted into college football's oligarchy - - five of the top seven teams in the 1. Hurricanes and Seminoles, dramatically changing the power base. Avg. Percentile Rating. Decade record. 1Florida State. Nebraska. 96. 6%1. Florida. 95. 2%1.
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