re: LSU not ranked by ESPN as one of 8 "Blue-Blood" CFB Programs

I swear I was gonna put Nebraska then took them off for FSU. Like they always say in school, go with your first answer. If you erase, you are probably erasing the correct answer. Dang it!

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True meaning of Blue Bloods would be schools like.

Navy
Army
ND
Mich
Rutgers
Penn
Princeston
Yale
Harvard

If you want to say the best since 1950 then OK. But the true meaning of Blue Bloods in College Football are the originals.

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Goin' back as far as you are, you'd have several more of the 8 ESPN bluebloods still on that list. USC and Bama were both prominent from the 20's thru the 40's, each playing in numerous Rose Bowls. Ohio State was prominent in the 30's and 40's...and Oklahoma started their rise to power in the 40's. While Texas emerged in the 40's they didn't start to truly hit their stride till the late 50's and into the 60's. Of ESPN's list of 8, I'd say only Nebraska, and possibly Texas, weren't very prominent before 1950...and for Nebraska, you could say before 1960. I'll add the caveat thought that during the 3 year stint of Notre Dame's famed 4 Horsemen, they only lost 2 games...and both of 'em were to Nebraska...

As for Army and Navy, they were only truly prominent in the war years, and a year here or there during the postwar years. And talking pre-1950 football, Minnesota should be included as they were one of the most dominant teams throughout the 30's and early 40's...

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True meaning of Blue Bloods would be schools like.

Navy
Army
ND
Mich
Rutgers
Penn
Princeston
Yale
Harvard

If you want to say the best since 1950 then OK. But the true meaning of Blue Bloods in College Football are the originals.

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Might as well add Tulane then..........

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Without looking it up, I'd put us ahead of Michigan.

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um... thats like the program that has the most all time wins dude... just throwing that out there...

Dead on accurate,

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Had Bama won "The Game of the Century", no way in hell LSU gets that rematch. Bama goes on to play OSU and easily wins, just like in 2012.

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You dont know that. Bama getting in over OSU had nothing to do with lsu. Bama is a blue blood program that got in over a lesser program that had a far better resume.

Minnesota should be in the second ten when you look at what they have accomplished. Tennessee is too high in my opinion. I mean even with Phat Phil they never won that much.

That's where LSU should be rated.

To be ranked in the top ten of most important college football programs in history is pretty damn amazing.

My 2 cents about his rankings. He places way too much emphasis on # of Heisman Trophy winners for a program. Also, he fails to take into account that some of these teams piled up much of their wins vs weak conf. opponents (Oklahoma & Nebraska had 6 automatic wins for decades playing in the Big 2 & Little 6 Conference. Texas did the same in the Seriously Weak Conference.)

"Relatively speaking, Nebraska has enjoyed more recent success." This about a program that hasn't even won a conference title this century? The Cornhuskers are a has-been.

"The Wolverines fall short of their fellow blue bloods in national championships with only two." Yet LSU, w/ 3 nat'l titles, is ranked below UM?