All-Time AP Poll

I admit to enjoying rankings and listings, so when I found this today at the Tuscaloosa News I wanted to share with everyone who reads An 'Eye and an 'Eer.

According to the article, years ago, Charles Woodroof, the SEC Assistant Director of Media Relations, came up with the idea of using each Associated Press poll to form an all-time AP ranking — or at least since 1936, then the first poll was held.

He assigned points based on each team's finish (25 for first, down to 1 for 25th), and added them up.

Although the poll hasn't always had 25 teams (From 1936 to 1961 the wire service ranked 20, from 1962 to 1967 only 10, and from 1968 to 1988 it was 20 again until the AP expanded to 25 teams in 1989), it may the closest thing to a pure ranking of the entire modern era of college football.

Now for the new Top 25 of all-time:

1. Oklahoma 743.5
2. Michigan 741
3. Notre Dame 710.5
4. Ohio State 692
5. Alabama 657
6. Nebraska 617
7. Southern California 598
8. Texas 595
9. Tennessee 548
10. Penn State 504
11. Miami 439
12. Florida State 418
13. Georgia 413
14. LSU 412
15. Auburn 396
16. Florida 395.5
17. UCLA 352
18. Arkansas 293
19. Michigan State 268
20. Texas A&M 264
21. Washington 260
22. Ole Miss 235.5
23. Georgia Tech 231.5
24. Iowa 223
25. Colorado 218