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In today's Morning Tailgate, I have a little fun and rank this season's bowls based on a number of factors. One of them is historical ranking, which I define as teams' 100-year S&P+ and/or Estimated S&P+ averages. Just for grins, I wanted to post the entire list here. I love that Army is still in the Top 25.

Team 100-Year
Average		 Rk
Alabama 311.9 1
Notre Dame 309.6 2
Michigan 297.3 3
Texas 293.5 4
USC 289.5 5
Oklahoma 278.9 6
Tennessee 278.7 7
Georgia Tech 278.6 8
Georgia 274.8 9
Nebraska 272.4 10
Florida State 270.2 11
Ohio State 269.6 12
Auburn 264.9 13
LSU 260.1 14
Pittsburgh 259.4 15
Miami 252.3 16
Penn State 246.9 17
UCLA 241.4 18
Texas A&M 239.4 19
Minnesota 238.6 20
Navy 237.7 21
Michigan State 237.5 22
Florida 232.7 23
Illinois 231.8 24
Army 231.3 25

As always, full list after the jump.

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Team 100-Year
Average		 Rk
Stanford 229.4 26
North Carolina 229.2 27
California 227.3 28
Washington 225.1 29
Colorado 223.7 30
Vanderbilt 222.9 31
Ole Miss 221.8 32
Duke 220.4 33
Wisconsin 220.3 34
Arkansas 218.9 35
Houston 217.6 36
Kentucky 216.6 37
Syracuse 216.5 38
Utah 214.8 39
Missouri 214.0 40
Clemson 208.3 41
Iowa 206.1 42
Mississippi State 206.0 43
Southern Miss 205.9 44
Arizona State 205.1 45
Texas Tech 203.8 46
Boise State 202.6 47
SMU 202.5 48
Purdue 202.2 49
Oregon 201.8 50
West Virginia 201.2 51
Washington State 201.0 52
Boston College 200.8 53
Miami (Ohio)
 199.6 54
Northwestern 198.5 55
Tulane 197.4 56
Arizona 197.2 57
San Diego State 196.1 58
Oklahoma State 195.3 59
South Florida 193.8 60
Tulsa 192.9 61
Baylor 192.9 62
TCU 192.2 63
Maryland 191.5 64
Memphis 190.9 65
Rice 190.7 66
Virginia Tech 189.9 67
Air Force 189.5 68
East Carolina 186.8 69
Bowling Green 186.7 70
Oregon State 186.6 71
Kansas 186.4 72
N.C. State 186.1 73
Toledo 184.9 74
Fresno State 184.2 75
Cincinnati 183.2 76
South Carolina 183.2 77
Virginia 179.7 78
Louisville 179.6 79
Colorado State 179.1 80
Central Florida 179.1 81
Troy 179.1 82
Central Michigan 179.0 83
Temple 178.6 84
Hawaii 178.5 85
BYU 177.0 86
Indiana 174.9 87
Florida Atlantic 174.5 88
Connecticut 174.0 89
Nevada 173.3 90
Louisiana Tech 173.1 91
Western Michigan 171.2 92
Iowa State 170.9 93
Rutgers 170.2 94
UAB 169.0 95
Ohio 167.5 96
Ball State 167.3 97
North Texas 166.6 98
Kansas State 166.3 99
Middle Tennessee 165.5 100
Kent State 165.3 101
San Jose State 165.2 102
Florida International 161.6 103
Wyoming 160.3 104
UNLV 160.1 105
New Mexico 159.7 106
Marshall 159.6 107
Utah State 158.8 108
Wake Forest 158.5 109
Northern Illinois 157.9 110
UTEP 157.3 111
UL-Lafayette 155.8 112
Western Kentucky 155.0 113
Buffalo 154.3 114
Akron 153.7 115
Arkansas State 149.6 116
UL-Monroe 146.6 117
Idaho 144.9 118
Eastern Michigan 144.3 119
New Mexico State 133.5 120

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Ahead of Fiesta Bowl qualifying, Big East winning UConn! The power of Schnelly never ceases to amaze.

by Kyle Kensing on Dec 16, 2011 10:26 AM EST reply actions  

1-11

Being arguably the worst team in the nation will do that to one’s ranking (see: State, New Mexico)

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by Kyle Kensing on Dec 16, 2011 11:48 AM EST up reply actions  

Off season idea for you

I’d be interested to see how these ratings have changed across time. As Jonesy says above, Florida is a real late bloomer to the national stage, while Army has declined over time. I’d love to see when Minnesota lost its hold as a national power, and how remarkable Oklahoma State’s recent run to the top is. So you could do a feature on the changing fortunes of some of these programs over time. Or also look at ones that consistently seem to underachieve expectations—like Texas A&M.

Also, I’ve often made the point that the center of gravity in the game has changed from the Midwest to the South (and from urban Catholic recruits to rural African-Americans). These ratings would provide a way to look at that hypothesis.

by bkarbour on Dec 16, 2011 11:36 AM EST reply actions  

Wait. What? Since when was the mid-west the epicenter of CFB?

Maybe the first 20 yrs that started at the turn of the century? Unless I’m wrong, and I’ve been wrong many times before, the south has held that title since around the 1930’s as a whole.

by burmbuster on Dec 16, 2011 1:41 PM EST up reply actions  

Look at the early years of the AP trophy.

The AP has been awarding a national championship since 1936. The early years are dominated by midwest teams: Minnesota, Ohio State, Notre Dame, etc. There are occasional teams from the south — depending on how you define “the south” and if want to include the states of Texas and Oklahoma — but it’s not until the last decade that it’s been dominated by the south.

by Ute in DC on Dec 18, 2011 10:39 PM EST up reply actions  

I'd like to see a handicapped version of this

for the teams like Boise State and others that haven’t been playing as long as the other teams.

by KnightLine on Dec 16, 2011 11:42 AM EST reply actions  

Interesting that you posted the raw list...

If my logic is valid, that shows how dominant FSU and Miami were in the second half of the century. To rank 11 and 18, respectively, and have only played football since since the 50s or 60s, and most, if not all, of the rest of the top 25 schools have played football for more than 100 years.

by michaeljsweeneyjr on Dec 16, 2011 2:41 PM EST up reply actions  

Can you define "100-year S&P+ and/or Estimated S&P+ averages"?

I can’t seem to find it anywhere and don’t quite understand it. I understand it is just the past 100 years, but without doing any math and just looking at all time records between Georgia Tech and schools like Ohio State and Nebraska, i see that the latter two have far superior winning percentages (71.6% and 70.2% to 59.6%), national (7 and 5 to 4) and conference titles (34 and 43 to 16) compared to the Jackets. Yet Ga Tech is #8, NU #10 and OSU #12.

No disrespect intended towards the Rambling Wreck, just curious just curious how it is defined.

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by Evan Pfaff on Dec 16, 2011 3:39 PM EST reply actions  

311.9 Average for Alabama

by 91bigten on Dec 16, 2011 11:32 PM EST reply actions  

Great stuff!

If LSU runs the table with their schedule, I wonder how high they go. I guess not much, given this is over 100 years. Of course, if we win…

"The same things win today that have always won, and they will win years from now. The only difference is the losers have a whole new bunch of excuses why they don’t win or can’t win."-Bear Bryant

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by the thin red line on Dec 19, 2011 1:28 AM EST reply actions  

OK, I'll cheerfully admit I'm a homer,

but how does Stanford rank above Washington?
UW has the all time longest unbeaten streak in college football, and until very recently "owned Stanford.

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by HuskyInExile on Dec 24, 2011 1:09 AM EST reply actions  

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