Can you name the 25 Greatest College Football Programs? by Tim3949

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25 Greatest College Football Programs Quiz

by Tim3949

Created May 5, 2010 in Sports
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	moviegoer74:	May 6th, 2010 at 16:06 GMT	12 points
	Accept St for "State" where applicable. And accept Pitt.

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	JohnShade:	May 6th, 2010 at 17:27 GMT	2 points
	also to redcoatband, the ampersand spelling is the standard for that school, and it's shorter besides. you really only add extra spelling options if there are equally common versions, or for convenience. you don't add a longer version that no one uses.

	rmo134:	May 6th, 2010 at 17:46 GMT	-4 points
	accept abbreviations...ie psu, osu

	IrishYanks:	May 6th, 2010 at 18:12 GMT	1 point
	The only thing that seems to skew this a bit too much is the Big 4 Bowl Points. Many schools didn't play in bowls for long stretches of time. In addition, bowls have been up and down in terms of popularity and perceived importance over the years.

	phildm:	May 6th, 2010 at 18:21 GMT	2 points
	Lazy people...spell it out. I get the "St" for State, but PSU? OSU? I can think of three OSUs, and two of which is an answer to this quiz

	Firemarsh:	May 6th, 2010 at 18:27 GMT	-4 points
	Minnesota, Illinois and Arkansas? Their methodology gotta be seriously F'ed up

	teffty24:	May 6th, 2010 at 18:50 GMT	2 points
	Illinois AND Minnesota? You've got to bet kidding me

	JohnShade:	May 6th, 2010 at 19:31 GMT	-1 points
	It's of all time. There's nothing silly about those inclusions. Also IrishYanks brings up a good point, and it's an even better point because it helps Notre Dame. The Irish stayed out of bowls on principle for a long time, during their super dominant years. They'd be way up in this list if they hadn't.

	Trek222:	May 6th, 2010 at 19:50 GMT	3 points
	@phildm: I only see 1 OSU on here.

	Cubbies:	May 6th, 2010 at 20:35 GMT	2 points
	You need to be consistent on your answers, because you accept Ohio State but not OSU, yet you accept USC but not Southern California. It needs to be the same for all of them.

	CNS:	May 6th, 2010 at 21:08 GMT	-1 points
	Cubbies, I think USC is more commonly called "USC," while OSU is more commonly called "Ohio State". Sometimes abbreviations are used more than others. Anyway, nice to see some Big Ten teams on here (including MSU). Also, please accept "Texas AM" and "Pitt".

	saban4pres:	May 6th, 2010 at 22:07 GMT	5 points
	Minnesota's only on here because of the seven national championships they won before 1950. But they're terrible now

	twarner50:	May 6th, 2010 at 23:08 GMT	2 points
	@Cubbies OSU can refer to Ohio State, Oklahoma State, and Oregon State. Also, Ohio State is commonly called "Ohio State", not OSU.

	SalGreco:	May 7th, 2010 at 01:57 GMT	1 point
	@teffty24, Illinois? I'm sorry have you ever heard of such Pro Hall-of-Famers Red Grange, Ray Nitschke, and Dick Butkus? Also, Grange and Butkus are major players in NCAA Football history.

	cdill24:	May 7th, 2010 at 02:04 GMT	0 points
	@SalGreco, I'm pretty sure Illinois has had one winning season in the past 20 years, same goes for Minnesota, this is a bad list

	dejonga29:	May 7th, 2010 at 02:48 GMT	2 points
	pitt least gotten makes me sad

	Dobbins:	May 7th, 2010 at 03:19 GMT	-3 points
	Ohio State is very commonly called OSU, and unless you are in Oklahoma or the Pacific Northwest, it is generally assumed you are talking about Ohio State, much like Oklahoma is generally assumed to be OU, unless you are in Athens, Ohio, or, once again, the Pacific Northwest.

	Tim3949:	May 7th, 2010 at 03:20 GMT	2 points
	Pittsburgh is surprising with all the championships they have. Illinois has gone down but they do have 15 big Ten titles and claim 5 national championships, along with two of their players on every top ten list of greatest college players. Their image of Zook is pretty bad right now but they do have a rich history. More of a basketball school now though. Minnesota seems to be getting no love either.

	catch84:	May 7th, 2010 at 03:27 GMT	4 points
	Minnesota has 6 championships people that is why they are on here

	pocketchizzy:	May 7th, 2010 at 05:57 GMT	-4 points
	for Texas A&M you can put "aggy". It's their real nickname.

	JohnShade:	May 7th, 2010 at 09:27 GMT	3 points
	cdill, what part of "This is an all-time list" do you not understand? It's not a right now list. It's an all-time list. Once more, to emphasize - it's not a list of the best current programs, or the best programs of the past 20 years. It's all-time. Bitching about Minnesota being on here, in light of that, is silly. They had multiple national titles while FSU was still an all-girls college.

	chrisgahl:	May 7th, 2010 at 20:39 GMT	5 points
	Allow for Louisiana State - if you accept Ohio State, you should accept all names spelled out. Even if most people would refer to OSU for Ohio State, it's only right to be able to spell it out as well.

	eleven:	May 8th, 2010 at 02:52 GMT	1 point
	Weird that they give Yale and Princeton such low national championship numbers even though neither will be beat in the next 100 years.

	teffty24:	May 9th, 2010 at 07:21 GMT	-2 points
	@SalGreco: That was a different era. Illinois is 28-67 since 2002.

	JohnShade:	May 9th, 2010 at 20:09 GMT	-1 points
	teffty, you raging moron, you are obviously reading all the comments since you responded to a specific comment, so you must have read the fifty posts pointing out that this is a list of the all-time - not the current - best programs. you goddam insufferable idiot.

	JohnShade:	May 9th, 2010 at 20:11 GMT	0 points
	i just looked back and found YOU are the guy who made the first idiotic comment that set me off. this means you ignored my replies which were in direct response to YOU. god i just want you to die. your ignorance is a disgrace to the state of iowa.

	luke78:	May 10th, 2010 at 17:45 GMT	0 points
	accept "texas a and m"

	jesusranch12:	May 12th, 2010 at 14:58 GMT	1 point
	you only take texas a&m with no spaces. take a & m and a and m. Also pitt and st for state. also yale and princeton have such low national championship numbers because some of those are just beating the other school

	JohnShade:	May 12th, 2010 at 23:16 GMT	2 points
	texas a & m, with the spaces, should be accepted (tho it's unorthodox and I really have no idea why anyone would try it that way), but texas a and m should NOT be accepted. it has never been spelled like that ever. popularly it's been the ampersand for as long as anyone can remember.

	hooper4:	May 13th, 2010 at 00:59 GMT	0 points
	Confucius say John Shade take Sporcle way too seriously.

	PWT3:	Jul 1st, 2010 at 03:38 GMT	-2 points
	hooper4 is a douchebag.

	Camden:	Apr 2nd, 2011 at 15:55 GMT	1 point
	This is a terrible list. Nebraska should be ahead of Texas and Michigan. Texas has been really good for the past 10 years and before that they were like a roller coaster. Michigan wins the national title about once every 75 years. ONE spot ahead of LS-freakin'-U??? Are you kidding me? Again, they've been good for 10 years. Before that they had some flashes but were mostly mediocre.