# Your Favorite All-Time Top 25 College Football Team **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [April 5, 2010, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-all-time-top-25-college-football-team/535026 "2010-04-05T14:59:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-all-time-top-25-college-football-team/535026/1 "2010-04-05T14:59:34Z")
According to [College Football Data Warehouse](http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/rankings/all_time_team_rankings.php) these are the Top 25 All Time Team Rankings. Which is your favorite of them all? ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-all-time-top-25-college-football-team/535026/2 "2010-04-05T15:17:06Z")
Michigan I went there and attended most of the home games from 1997-2001. Great time to be a Michigan fan(then, I mean). 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-all-time-top-25-college-football-team/535026/3 "2010-04-05T20:22:59Z")
Ahem, that’s _The_ Ohio State. And that’s the closest I have to a home team (I’m from Cleveland), so it’s what I picked. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-all-time-top-25-college-football-team/535026/4 "2010-04-05T21:36:48Z")
My alma mater, Ga Tech: We need a poll on your least favorite AP Top 25 team. I’d be hard press to come up with just one. Notre Dame, SoCal, Ohio St would be fighting hard for my vote. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-all-time-top-25-college-football-team/535026/5 "2010-04-05T22:04:10Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > My alma mater, Ga Tech: > > We need a poll on your least favorite AP Top 25 team. I’d be hard press to come up with just one. Notre Dame, SoCal, Ohio St would be fighting hard for my vote. I have old school hate for Notre Dame and Michigan but I at least respect them. Florida State, LSU and USC I can’t say the same about. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2010, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-all-time-top-25-college-football-team/535026/6 "2010-04-07T15:35:32Z")
I don’t understand. There are teams on that list that aren’t even in the SEC. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2010, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-all-time-top-25-college-football-team/535026/7 "2010-04-07T15:41:54Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > I don’t understand. There are teams on that list that aren’t even in the SEC. > 😛 Amazing, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Wolverine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba9def/32.png) [@Wolverine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolverine)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-all-time-top-25-college-football-team/535026/8 "2010-04-20T02:41:35Z")
User name says it all. Go Blue! ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-all-time-top-25-college-football-team/535026/9 "2010-04-20T03:27:36Z")
Pitt is it! I don’t like that web site’s factoring. Top 4 bowls (I assume) are the Rose, Cotton, Sugar and Orange. Since the Pac 10 and Big 10 had the lock on the Rose Bowl until the BCS (and they still try to hook the two conferences in the game if they can), that sort of skews the data, doesn’t it? I didn’t look at the formula they used, but it shouldn’t include just those 4 bowls. Hell, the Fiesta bowl has been part of the old New Year’s Day line-up for about 25 years now ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-all-time-top-25-college-football-team/535026/10 "2010-04-20T09:06:45Z")
I’m a former Catholic from northern Indiana. I still wear the blue and gold, even after years in Tennessee. But…I root wholeheartedly for the Vols unless they’re playing ND. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-all-time-top-25-college-football-team/535026/11 "2010-04-20T14:08:26Z")
Wolverines! ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-all-time-top-25-college-football-team/535026/12 "2010-04-20T14:15:44Z")
Penn State and Miami should be moved up to 9th and 10th on that list. There is no way that LSU, Tennessee or Georgia are ahead of either of them. There is some obvious SEC bias in that ranking. ---
**Author:** ![Eugene\_of\_Sandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c37758/32.png) [@Eugene\_of\_Sandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eugene_of_Sandwich)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-all-time-top-25-college-football-team/535026/13 "2010-04-20T14:19:15Z")
What’s the good word? ---
**Author:** ![WreckingCrew](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wreckingcrew/32/4080_2.png) [@WreckingCrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WreckingCrew)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-all-time-top-25-college-football-team/535026/14 "2010-04-20T14:38:58Z")
I was amazed to look further down the list and see that Boston College was only a few slots ahead of Brown. I guess the Ivy League really did matter at one time.