Prestige Rankings
ESPN's Prestige Rankings are a numerical method of ranking the best FBS programs since the 1936 season. Point values were assigned for certain successes (win a national title, earn 25 points) and failures (get your program banned from the postseason, lose two points). The research department ran all the numbers through the computer to come up with the No. 1 program (and Nos. 2 to 119) of the past 73 seasons.
Great idea. I wish I'd thought of it a few years ago.
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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, 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.
NC in either poll = 100 points
2-5 = 65, 55, 50, 45
6-10 = 40, 37, 34, 32, 30
11-20 = 28, 26, 24, 22, 20, 18, 16, 14, 12, 10
21-25 = 8, 6, 4, 3, 2
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 2008 final polls:
01. 2353 - Oklahoma
02. 2255 - Notre Dame
03. 2191 - Ohio State
04. 2050 - Alabama
05. 1970 - Michigan (-10 for losing record in 2008)
06. 1942 - USC
07. 1724 - Texas
08. 1669 - Nebraska
09. 1523 - Tennessee(-10 for losing record in 2008)
10. 1454 - Penn State
11. 1171 - Miami
12. 1112 - Florida State
13. 1044 - LSU
14. 1023 - Georgia
15. 1016 - Florida
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