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Houston Chronicle Ranks The Country's Top 20 College Football Programs

by Staff Reporter

December 11, 201752 Comments

The Advertiser-USA TODAY Sports

A panel of ten writers from the Houston Chronicle recently put together a list of the top 20 college football programs in the country and pegged LSU at No. 9.

Alabama, Ohio State, and Texas were ranked as the top three programs.

Here are the factors that the panel took into consideration to come up with their rankings.

quote:
1. Facilities.
2. History (recent and past).
3. Money (that a school spends - and not on recruits).
4. Recruiting (the area from which to draw).
5. Conference.
6. Attendance/game day atmosphere/campus geography.
7. Brand name/prestige.
8. Exposure/TV.
9. NFL draftees.
10. Coaching (stability).

Here's what they had to say about LSU:

quote:
9. LSU (68)

By itself, witnessing "Callin' Baton Rouge" in a raucous Tiger Stadium propels the program into the top 20. LSU's success in the past 15 years (with two of its three national titles coming in that span) and the Cajun-flavored tailgating scene shoves it into the top 10.

Here is the Top 10:

1. Alabama (146)
2. Ohio State (133)
3. Texas (100)
4. Oklahoma (97)
4. Southern Cal (97)
6. Michigan (90)
6. Notre Dame (90)
8. Clemson (78)
9. LSU (68)
10. Texas A&M (59)

You can see the Houston Chronicle's complete list here.

Do you think No. 9 is the right ranking for the Tigers? If not, where would you place them on this list?

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Ponchy Tiger•101 months

No argument other than no way Clemson should be higher than LSU.

LSU-MNCBABY•101 months

That and atm shouldn’t be 10

Swagga•101 months

LSU should be above Clemson

OchoDedos•101 months

Going to a Texas game is like going to funeral. All about being seen.

R11•101 months

Clemson is the Johnny come lately

rschwe5•101 months

Tamu should not be on the list.
LSU Should arguably be higer, but not too much else to gripe about.

Bourre•101 months

Texas A&M at 9 is laughable

Bourre•101 months

I mean at 10 is laughable.

jimbeam•101 months

aTm lololololol

wesman21•101 months

Texas and ND are too high if you're weighing recent results.

Tigers4Lyfe•101 months

Recent results certainly have weight, but it's not the only thing being weighed.

TigerOnTheMountain•101 months

frickin LOL. I can think of at least one program in the western division more deserving of that 10 spot than A&M.

StormTiger•101 months

Makes me puke a bit, but Auburn should be on that list ahead of A&M at very least.

LSU-MNCBABY•101 months

Aside from us being ahead of Clemson I think it’s a good top 7-8. Atm being 10 is insane.

SamuelClemens•101 months

A&M at #10

LULZ

Ghost of Colby•101 months

I’d like to know the mental gymnastics they used to rank UT in the top 5 & above OU, as well as ranking aTm in the top 10.

STRIPES•101 months

Texas bring #3 on the list is a joke. A&M on the list at all is laughable. No Florida? No Auburn? But A&M is at #10? This is a homer list if there ever was one.

LSU-MNCBABY•101 months

Based on the factors they listed you could reasonably argue they would be #1 in factors 1,2,3,4,7,8. They’re a clear top 5 program in the nation based on facilities, money, recruiting ground, brand and exposure alone.

JackieTreehorn•101 months

Gotta put Florida on there. Notre Dame being so high is a joke.

LSU-MNCBABY•101 months

Based on the factors they listed ND should easily be in the top 10. Brand, history, Money, exposure they do very well in

TheCaterpillar•101 months

and Clemson is a joke in their position as well...LSU is probably about right.

Klark Kent•101 months

eesh, this list is rough. i could nitpick it to death. But A&M is too high. Top 15-18 sure, not top 10. Notre Dame? lol. not even top 15. Texas over OU, UF, and Clemson? Laughable. A&M higher than UGA, UF, and Aubun? No, just, no.

I'm comfortable with LSU being 8-9 tho. UF should probably be higher than LSU, as painful as that is to admit. But it should read #7 UF, #8 LSU, #9 Auburn, #10 UGA, #11 Michigan........#17 Notre Dame.

weeble•101 months

Probably the reason that A&M is so high is that one of the criteria is money spent (#3 on the list). Didn't A&M spend close to 100 million dollars on facilities in the first 3 years after they were accepted into the SEC? That alone was probably more money that the rest of the schools on the list spent during that time on facilities.

MountainCat•101 months

Texas?? They still play football over there??

ALWAYSLSU78•101 months

Houston based panel, I'm surprised North Texas State and Sam Houston aren't on the Top 10 list....

LSU-MNCBABY•101 months

Where would you have Texas then based on all of the factors they listed? You could reasonably argue they are #1 on factors 1,2,3,4,7,8

weeble•101 months

MNCBABY is right, downvote him if you want to but the list only counts wins and losses as a small part of the rankings. Besides Notre Dame (NBC) who else has their own TV network??? that alone has to be huge considering their criteria.

dpd901•101 months

USC, Norte Dame and OSU should all be T-2 based on historical. Oklahoma should be ahead of Texas, ATM doesn’t belong on the list at all. Everything else is pretty close.

tubucoco•101 months

I don't understand how Texas gets No. 3, the only thing got going for them right now is Money with a cap M. But I feel LSU should be ahead of Mich, Notre Dame and Clemson at No. 6.

tubucoco•101 months

But if they lose to Notre Dame in another bowl game my list will change. Lol

Lsu101205•101 months

If you look over the past 20 years this list is pretty accurate (maybe move Texas lower). Outside of Texas A&M, that is a complete joke and is only in the list because college station is 30min away from Houston (where the article is from).

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