re: Is Nebraska Football still a blue blood?

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the problem with idiots like you is that you ONLY use one metric (i.e. nat'l titles) for determining blue blood status.

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That’s the only metric anyone cares about right now. Have you recently heard everyone talking about how wonderful Oklahoma has been over the last 20 years? Probably not because they have won a lot of games but have zero national championships to brag about since 2000. Part of that is because their conference is so weak. Same could be said for much of Michigan’s modern football history since the 1960’s.

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That’s the only metric anyone cares about right now. Have you recently heard everyone talking about how wonderful Oklahoma has been over the last 20 years? Probably not because they have won a lot of games but have zero national championships to brag about since 2000.

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are you MRDD or just severely incompetent? the topic at hand was determining blue-blood status. which is in DIRECT opposition to the last 20 years or any other arbitrary timeframe set by each person.

if you want to talk about national titles in the BCS/CFP era and onwards, you can start a new thread about that and discuss program superiority based on that.

but that's not the topic we're discussing f*ckwad

have you noticed why NO ONE mentions clemson or UGA as blue bloods, even though they both have multiple national championships in recent years, compared to ND and OU? it's about the entirety of a program's history, which you 19 year old idiots don't seem to comprehend

Nobody is arguing with you.

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They had to start playing ACC teams to create a presence in the South and still no one gives a shite about them.

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Then you don't give a shite about history in general, just what happened 5 minutes,ago.

Notre Dame fought against what you're obviously stuck in....insular regionalism.

They grew the sport nationally, once mostly an IVY East Coast thing....and brought it to the masses and changed the way the game was played. But muh, haven't won a Natty since the the 80s.....so tired of people obsessed about the MNC these days and ignore everything else. Its the playoff syndrome that has reduced people's brain to only care about what happens in January that year.

Over the past couple of days I went to the AP Poll Archive and looked up the final polls for each year. I assigned 25 points for every 1st place finish, 24 for every 2nd place finish, and so on. From 1936-1989 they only had a top 20, and for a few years in the 60s there was only a top 10, so 20th place got 6 points and everyone else got 0, and in the 60s 10th place got 16 points and everyone else had 0. From 1990 til last year is when I was able to assign 5,4,3,2,1 points for the last few of the top 25. I just wanted to make sure 1st place finishes got the same amount of points every year which is why I did it that way.

Here are the results:

Alabama 1170
Ohio State 1157
Oklahoma 1147
Michigan 1064
Notre Dame 1048
USC 845
Texas 820
Nebraska 775
Penn St 734
Tennessee 715
Georgia 704
LSU 702
Florida St 597
Auburn 584
Florida 549
Miami (FL) 534
UCLA 504
Clemson 503
Michigan St 472
Arkansas 444
Washington 405
Texas A&M 396
Ole Miss 379
Wisconsin 378
Iowa 346
Georgia Tech 329
TCU 313
Oregon 310
Pitt 310
Stanford 284
Colorado 267
Missouri 254
Minnesota 252
Army 246
Arizona St 242
Maryland 238
Virginia Tech 225
North Carolina 218
Navy 214
Oklahoma St 214
Baylor 211
West Virginia 208
Duke 207
BYU 200
Cal 198
Kansas St 196
Houston 191
Syracuse 190
Purdue 182
Illinois 177
SMU 172
Northwestern 168
Boise St 156
Boston College 150
Washington St 139
Utah 132
Oregon St 129
Mississippi St 127
South Carolina 121
NC State 119
Kentucky 118
Louisville 116
Texas Tech 104
Kansas 99
Rice 98
Tulane 98
Penn 95
Arizona 90
Fordham 88
Santa Clara 86
Cincinnati 84
Tulsa 80
Air Force 79
Indiana 77
Cornell 68
Miami (OH) 68
Virginia 66
Dartmouth 60
UCF 58
Princeton 55
Yale 54
Holy Cross 53
Wyoming 48
Duquesne 46
Iowa Pre-Flight 44
Villanova 41
Wake Forest 33
William & Mary 33
March Field/4th AF 32
Utah St 32
Colorado St 31
Toledo 31
Bainbridge Naval 30
Great Lakes Naval 29
Rutgers 29
Iowa St 25
Southern Miss 25
East Carolina 23
Pacific 23
Randolph Field 23
Marshall 21
ULL 21
Washington & Lee 21
Carnegie Mellon 20
St Mary's 19
Vanderbilt 19
Del Monte Pre-Flight 18
Fresno St 16
Nevada 15
Georgetown 13
Hawaii 13
Norman Pre-Flight 13
Coastal Carolina 12
Columbia 12
San Diego St 12
San Francisco 12
South Florida 12
Memphis 11
Western Michigan 11
Boston 10
El Toro Marines 10
Liberty 10
George Washington 9
Hardin-Simmons 9
New Mexico St 9
Temple 9
Colorado College 8
Fort Pierce Naval 8
Appalachian St 7
Delaware 7
Lafayette 7
San Jose St 7
St Mary's Pre-Flight 7
Troy 7
2nd Air Force 6
Marquette 6
Ohio 6
VMI 6
Northern Illinois 4
Ball St 3
Bowling Green 3
Central Michigan 3
Western Kentucky 2
Buffalo 1