re: Best program yet to win a MNC in football?

Pretty much splitting hairs between Virginia Tech and West Virginia.

Oregon isn't even Top 40 all-time in wins.

West Virginia
682 wins
.599 win pct
13 conf. championships
18 Top 25 finishes (AP/Coaches)
6 Top 10 finishes (AP/Coaches)
29 bowl games
13-16 bowl game record

Virginia Tech
668 wins
.605 win pct
7 conf. championships
19 Top 25 finishes (AP/Coaches)
7 Top 10 finishes (AP/Coaches)
23 bowl games
9-13 bowl game record

West Virginia is the top candidate, then Virginia Tech, then Oregon, and then TAMU. I will give Boise State the number 5 slot just because of their recent success.

Wisconsin Badgers-- I don't know if they have any legitimate titles that are recognized, even though I found this tidbit on wiki:

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Q: Has Wisconsin ever won a [football] national championship?

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No they did not the closes[t] they came was 1962 they lost to USC in the rose bowl 42 to 37 to keep them second in the nation in rankings with an 8 and 1 record.

All national championships are mythical. Since teams such as Notre Dame, Alabama, and Southern Cal count a championship given by any of the recognized polls and rating services, it is only right that Wisconsin can state that the Badger teams of 1912 and 1942 were national champions. In point of fact, the 1942 Badgers were the only team to defeat the consensus national champions, Ohio State, in a game at Madison which was marred by the illness contacted by the Ohio State team on the train trip to Wisconsin. Ohio State was coached by Paul Brown from Massillon while Wisconsin was coached by a Notre Dame "Four Horseman, Harry Stuhldreher, also of Massillon. The Badgers were indeed an outstanding team composed of a lineup including Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch, Pat Harder, and Dave Schreiner, who lost his life with the Marines at Okinawa in WWII.

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didn't WVU win the NC in the early 90s?

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No

Louisiana-Monroe, Northern Illinois, and UCF.

yep. didnt see that. sorry. thought he was answering the question not rewriting it.

oregon, v tech

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Candidates:
Oregon
Va Tech
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Texas A&M
Boise St.

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A&M won a national title in 1939.

in the BCS era