Zem said:

It's not black and white. The solution to the status quo was somewhere between same old and anarchy.

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but the NCAA passed on doing that. They had decades to adapt and failed.

This is what happens.

I'm enjoying watching it burn, myself.

Captain Buckeye said:

Couldn’t agree more. Time and time again they just kept coming up big.

We should’ve beat Indiana but that’s because we should’ve scored touchdowns not field goals, missed field goals, and failed 4th down attempts.

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Not only that there is no Guarantee we win the 2nd one if we won the 1st cause unless us beating them collapsed their whole belief we would end up facing them again.

BigWoof31 said:

If Ohio has the best HS football stadiums in America - Indiana might have the best HS swimming facilities I've ever seen.

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Texas has the best HS stadiums.

If Ohio has the best HS football stadiums in America - Indiana might have the best HS swimming facilities I've ever seen.

Next year’s schedule sure is not kind

NJ-Buckeye said:

You don't even wanna talk about prop taxes to a Jersey dude.. WE SUCK

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One of the main reasons why we have so many ex-pats from the Northeast.

lvbuckeye said:

Whoa. The last time a school won its first national championship was Florida in 1996.

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2017

Zem said:

It's not black and white. The solution to the status quo was somewhere between same old and anarchy.

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Anarchy never lasts forever. So I am enjoying the IUs Cignetti. Eventually order will be restored and TOSU will win a Natty every 8-15 years.

BuckBackHome said:

Are we expecting Oregon to win the natty this next season? We have to keep the BigTen trend going.

Also, was the game as close as the score reflected? I did not watch and most likely won't. I am wondering if it was close or was it like OSU's game against Notre Shame last year where I was never worried about the outcome.

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We are expecting the buckeyes to win the natty next season.

The game wasn’t close in the 1st half. The second half was Indiana being unable to pull away and Miami constantly in the ball with the chance to take the lead but then stepping on their own foot. Indiana was the better team, but not by a huge margin. Miami’s D line kept them in it, IU was better at every other spot.

NJ-Buckeye said:

You don't even wanna talk about prop taxes to a Jersey dude.. WE SUCK

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feels like a measuring contest at the AVN Awards (or whatever its called) ... state to state yeah on average because Texas is fucking huge but city to city... we might be within a fraction of an inc.... I mean a couple 10ths of a percent

This has been updated after the final polls for the 2025 season.

OK, here's how this was calculated. I took each team's ranking in every year-end poll since the AP started in 1936. Once 2 polls were involved (the Coaches Poll started in 1950), I always used the higher ranking. Sliding scale points were awarded for every year that a team ended up ranked, and 10 points were deducted for each losing season. The scale was determined before seeing where teams ended up.

For each year since 1936, a team earns points based on these criteria:

NC (#1) in either poll = 100 points
02 -> 05 = 65, 55, 50, 45 points, respectively
06 -> 10 = 40, 37, 34, 32, 30 points
11 -> 20 = 28, 26, 24, 22, 20, 18, 16, 14, 12, 10 points
21 -> 25 = 08, 06, 04, 03, 02 points
non-ranked, but .500 or above = 0 points
losing record for the year = minus 10 points

Here are the all-time totals, updated after the 2025 final polls:

01. 3137 - Alabama
02. 3036 - Ohio State
03. 2818 - Oklahoma
04. 2651 - Notre Dame
05. 2287 - Michigan
06. 2123 - USC
07. 1937 - Texas
08. 1705 - Penn State
09. 1639 - Georgia (jumped Nebraska)
10. 1630 - Nebraska
11. 1555 - Tennessee
12. 1439 - LSU
13. 1379 - Florida State (-10 for losing record in 2025)
14. 1272 - Miami
15. 1175 - Florida (-10 for losing record in 2025)
16. 1113 - Auburn (-10 for losing record in 2025)
17. 1013 - Clemson
18. 0847 - Michigan State (-10 for losing record in 2025)
19. 0842 - UCLA (-10 for losing record in 2025)
20. 0744 - Washington
21. 0690 - Arkansas (-10 for losing record in 2025)
22. 0612 - Ole Miss
23. 0579 - Texas A&M
24. 0525 - Georgia Tech
25. 0489 - Wisconsin (-10 for losing record in 2025)
26. 0443 - Oregon
27. 0409 - Pittsburgh

Other schools: Iowa (377), Minnesota (341), Boise St (312), Colorado (285), Army (267), BYU (263), Syracuse (257), Stanford (215), Va Tech (198), West Va (156), Oklahoma St (37), Purdue (05), and Illinois (-77).

Since 2007, I have created separate ratings by adding National Championship credit for those earned prior to 1936, on a sliding scale based on 12-year periods.

1869-1899 - 10 points for each MNC (no top teams here, almost all Ivy League)
1900-1911 - 25 points for each MNC
1912-1923 - 50 points for each MNC
1924-1935 - 75 points for each MNC

Here are the all-time totals, updated with the pre-1936 MNC points:

01. 3412 - Alabama (MNCs in '25, '26, '34, 2/3 for '30 = 275)
02. 3036 - Ohio State
03. 2876 - Notre Dame (MNCs in '24, '29, '30 = 225)
04. 2818 - Oklahoma
05. 2462 - Michigan (MNCs in '01, '02, '23, '33 = 175)
06. 2323 - USC (MNCs in '31, '32, 2/3 for '28 = 200)
07. 1937 - Texas
08. 1705 - Penn State
09. 1639 - Georgia
10. 1630 - Nebraska
11. 1555 - Tennessee
12. 1439 - LSU
13. 1379 - Florida State
14. 1272 - Miami
15. 1175 - Florida
16. 1113 - Auburn
17. 1013 - Clemson
18. 0847 - Michigan State
19. 0842 - UCLA
20. 0744 - Washington
21. 0690 - Arkansas
22. 0650 - Georgia Tech (MNCs in '17, '28 = 125)
23. 0629 - Texas A&M (MNC in '19 = 50)
24. 0612 - Ole Miss
25. 0534 - Pittsburgh (MNCs in '10, '16, '18 = 125)
26. 0491 - Minnesota (MNCs in '34, '35 = 150)
27. 0489 - Wisconsin
28. 0443 - Oregon
29. 0377 - Iowa
30. 0367 - Army (MNCs in '14, '16 = 100)
31. 0312 - Boise State
32. 0290 - Stanford (MNC in ‘26 = 75)
33. 0285 - Colorado
34. 0263 - BYU
35. 0257 - Syracuse
36. 0198 - Virginia Tech

Note - USC and Bama received 50 points, rather than 75, for disputed titles in '28 and '30, respectively

Note - Illinois, with MNCs in '14, '23, and '27 fails to make the top 35.