I know there was a Buckeye "who's on Mt BuckMore" per decade, this summer. On the heels of that, if Mount Rushmore was turned into a college football monument, what 4 football helmets would you expect to see carved in the stone? Who do you believe are college football's best 4 teams throughout history?
Southern Cal, Notre Dame, Alabama............ then who??? Oklahoma, Texas, Michig*n, OSU, Nebraska??????
If were going throughout history I say drop bama and go with OSU and Michigan. Not 100% sold on So Cal either. ND, OSU, and UM i think are the three surefire ones. Couldn't pick a fourth, too many teams it could be.
Sorry Urban, Woody is still my favorite
Oklahoma, tOSU, tSUN, & Alabama as they are ranked in the all time AP poll (In the Bucknuts space a couple days ago)
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I agree with TMAC, that would be my top 4.
If you are accepting of the fact Bama claims about 4 or 5 illegit titles then they belong on there. Notre Dame does not, most of their success happened pre-1950... I think you go with Oklahoma, Southern California, Ohio State, Michigan...we are talking ALL-TIME, not just a selected era.
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Are you serious? Bama has won more national championships then OSU, Michiagan or ND. Can't take them out of the disscusion.
How do you come up with most of ND's success being pre-1950? They won 4 National Titles after 1950, produced 4 Heisman winners(to be fair, only 1 was after 1964), and the Parseghian, Devine, and Holtz years were VERY successful. I'm not saying they should be included on this list as they have clearly fallen off in the last 15-20 years, but they are still in the next tier after.
If we're carving helmets into a mountain, the ND helmet looks the same as a peewee walmart helmet. No emblem, no strip, no anything. Unless we're painting the rocks gold nobody would even know it was their helmet. For that reason alone they should get booted. And because it would troll their annoying fanbsae.
When told OSU set school record for 50+ games this year, UFM said "That's good. We're gonna break that next year."
Oklahoma, Alabama, OSU, Michigan. USC and ND would be 5a and 5b.
Not taking them out, just putting UM and OSU in ahead of them. I didn't interpret this as "who has the most titles." Bama most certainly belongs in the discussion, just think OSU and UM should for sure be ahead of them contrary to what the original post claimed.
Sorry Urban, Woody is still my favorite
ESPN did a pretty decent study and came up with a Top 5 of USC, Oklahoma, OSU, Notre Dame, and Nebraska. http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3849468
I think the Mt Rushmore metaphor should be looked at a little more closely by some. Does anyone ask "what has Washington done for the country lately?" ND helped shape the college football game we all love, and would absolutely belong on such a monument. Oh, and anybody who thinks USC doesn't belong on "Mt Rushmore" is just crazy.
There is no good way to do a Big Four. It's the big eight - Oklahoma, Michigan, Ohio State, Alabama, Notre Dame, USC, Texas, Nebraska - and then a sizable drop-off after that. You could make a strong argument for any combination of four among those eight.
Before their recent troubles, PSU and Tenn would have been knocking on the door of this upper tier, but now it's easy to leave them out.
There are a number of ways to look at it.
If you go by winning percentage of FBS programs that have played more than 1000 games you have:
Michigan 895 (won) 310 (lost) 36 (tied) .736 (winning perc.) 1241 (games played)
Notre Dame 853 300 42 .731 1195
Oklahoma 821 307 53 .718 1181
Texas 858 330 33 .716 1221
Ohio State 825 316 53 .713 1194
Alabama 814 320 43 .710 1177
Southern California 779 313 54 .703 1146
Nebraska 846 349 40 .701 1235
If you go by national championships in the Poll era (since 1936) you have:
Alabama 6 consensus/9 overall (1961, 1964, 1965 (AP), 1973 (Coaches), 1978 (AP), 1979, 1992, 2009, 2011)
Notre Dame 7/8 (1943, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1966, 1973 (AP), 1977, 1988)
Oklahoma 6/7 (1950, 1955, 1956, 1974 (AP), 1975, 1985, 2000)
USC 3/7 (1962, 1967, 1972, 1974 (Coaches), 1978 (Coaches), 2003 (AP), 2004 (AP)*)
Miami 4/5 (1983, 1987, 1989, 1991 (AP), 2001)
Nebraska 3/5 (1970 (AP), 1971, 1994, 1995, 1997 (Coaches))
Ohio State 3/5 (1942, 1954 (AP), 1957 (Coaches), 1968, 2002)
In my opinion, Oklahoma, Notre Dame, and Alabama are locks for three spots when you weigh winning percentage and national championships. The fourth spot is an argument between tOSU, USC, and Nebraska, with some discussion of Texas (tOSU always wins that argument, IMO). If you take pre-Poll era national championships into account, TSUN must be on the mountain, and USC probably takes Oklahoma's spot.
"Paralyze resistance with persistence." -Woody Hayes
Mt Rushmore has 4 spots. Not 5 or 8. It's tough to pick 4. It's tough to pick Michig*n as the 4th, I don't feel they should be there, but they do have some things on OSU.
Notre Dame, Alabama, Southern Cal and who? Oklahoma or Nebraska.... Take into account ncaa violations (Bozworth, Marcus Dupree, Barry Switzer) I say Nebraska over OU.
Ohio St, Michig*n or Nebraska?