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I never would have picked Oklahoma at #1. 

Funny we're tied with the semis at 15. 

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From: Woody <gatorrrrrr@gmail.com>
Date: August 20, 2013, 1:21:41 PM CDT
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Subject: [gatornews] CFN.com: The greatest program of all time is...
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All-Time Decade Rankings

The AP Rankings 

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By the AP Rankings - The Greatest Programs Ever
- 2013 AP Preseason Poll | Top Teams of All-time
- Top Teams of the 1930s | Top Teams of the 1940s
- Top Teams of the 1950s | Top Teams of the 1960s
- Top Teams of the 1970s | Top Teams of the 1980s
- Top Teams of the 1990s | Top Teams of the 2000s 
- Top Teams of the 2010s

The AP rankings might now be irrelevant since they don't have anything to do with determining a national champion anymore, but they're still great to use when analyzing college football on a historical scale.

The AP college football poll has been through World War II, has changed and adapted with the times, and has often looked to make a statement when needed - like in 2003 by naming USC the national champion, even though LSU took home the BCS title..

Since the AP poll is the only consistent ranking system from 1936 through today, CFN came up with a scoring system to compare and contrast how the programs finished over the decades. Every time a team finished No. 1 in the final poll, it got 25 points. The No. 2 team got 24 points, No. 3 got 23 points, and so on with the No. 25 team getting one point.  Through the decades, the AP ranked the top ten teams for a few years before going back to the top 20 rankings, and eventually, it went to the top 25 system it's at now.

According to the scoring system, consistent production isn't necessarily rewarded. For example, if a team finished 17th for four straight years, it would get a total of 36 points (No. 17 gets 9 points). A team that finished the beginning of the decade No. 2 (24 points) and the end of the decade ranked tenth (16 points), but wasn't ranked any year in between, would get a total 40 points.

One fascinating thing to note: all the club teams that played during World War II. Notice the rankings of the all-star teams like the Iowa Pre-Fight juggernaut and the Bainbridge NTS powerhouse. In the end, though, the big-name programs you'd think would rock, did. There's a reason the superpowers of today got their reputations - they won.

However, things can change in a big hurry. When we did this in 2000, Notre Dame was on top of the world by a huge margin. Over a decade later and a following down period, things have changed up a bit.

So here we go - here are the greatest college football programs since 1936 according to the AP rankings.

	RANK	TEAM	POINTS
1	Oklahoma	953
2	Michigan	943
3	Ohio State	927
4	Alabama	923
5	Notre Dame	918
6	Nebraska	783
7	USC	782
8	Texas	771
9	Tennessee	678
10	Penn State	646
11	LSU	590
12	Georgia	531
13	Auburn	526
14	Miami	511
T15	Florida	486
T15	Florida State	486
17	UCLA	477
18	Arkansas	439
19	Michigan State	380
20	Texas A&M	356
21	Washington	330
22	Georgia Tech	325
23	Ole Miss	322
24	Wisconsin	305
25	Iowa	302
	Others Receiving Votes
26	Clemson	299
27	Pitt	293
28	Colorado	258
29	Army	239
30	Maryland	238
31	Minnesota	236
32	TCU	230
33	Stanford	226
34	Arizona State	223
35	Missouri	218
36	Virginia Tech	213
37	Duke	210
38	Oregon	206
T39	Navy	199
T39	North Carolina	199
41	Purdue	196
42	West Virginia	194
43	Syracuse	191
T44	BYU	178
T44	Illinois	178
46	California	174
T47	Kansas State	168
T47	SMU	168
49	Houston	164
50	Boston College	150
51	Oklahoma State	137
52	Boise State	136
53	Northwestern	135
54	Baylor	132
55	Washington State	123
56	Oregon State	120
57	Rice	107
58	N.C. State	105
59	Texas Tech	104
60	Mississippi State	99
61	Kansas	96
T62	Kentucky	96
T62	South Carolina	96
64	Penn	95
65	Louisville	91
66	Fordham	88
67	Santa Clara	86
68	Tulsa	79
69	Arizona	76
T70	Air Force	75
T70	Utah	75
72	Tulane	74
73	Virginia	66
74	Indiana	63
75	Princeton	55
T76	Cornell	54
T76	Yale	54
78	Holy Cross	52
79	Wyoming	48
80	Dartmouth	47
81	Duquesne	46
82	Iowa Pre-Flight	44
T83	Miami Univ.	41
T83	Villanova	41
85	Rutgers	40
86	Cincinnati	37
87	William & Mary	33
88	March Field	32
T89	Colorado State	31
T89	Toledo	31
91	Bainbridge NTS	30
92	Great Lakes	29
93	Utah State	26
94	Southern Miss	25
T95	East Carolina	23
T95	Pacific	23
T95	Randolph Field	23
98	Wake Forest	22
99	Carnegie Tech	20
100	State Mary's (Cal.)	19
T101	Del Monte P-F	18
T101	Marshall	18
103	Vanderbilt	17
104	Nevada	15
T105	Georgetown	13
T105	Hawaii	13
T107	Columbia	12
T107	Norman Pre-Flight	12
T107	San Francisco	12
T110	Boston University	10
T110	El Toro Marines	10
T110	San Diego State	10
T113	George Washington	9
T113	Hardin-Simmons	9
T113	New Mexico State	9
T113	Temple	9
T117	Colorado College	8
T117	Fort Pierce	8
T117	Iowa State	8
T117	Washington & Lee	8
T121	Delaware	7
T121	Lafayette	7
T121	State Mary's P-F	7
T124	Fresno State	6
T124	Marquette	6
T124	Ohio	6
T124	Sec. Air Force	6
T124	Virginia Military	6
T129	San Jose State	5
T129	UCF	5
131	Northern Illinois	4
T132	Bowling Green	3
T132	Central Michigan	3

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