Colin Cowherd Ranked College Football Teams Into 4 Tiers, Let’s Debate Them
Everyone loves to break things down into tiers. Top tier is the place to be. Whether we are talking about top tier talent in females, fraternity tiers, or tiers of college football teams, it’s just human nature to rank things as better than others. Colin Cowherd decided to rank college football teams into tiers by how good they are all-time.
Here is him talking about his tiers:
His top tier includes:
-Alabama
-Michigan
-Notre Dame
-Ohio State
-Oklahoma
-USC
Tier Two is:
-Auburn
-Florida State
-Miami
-Tennessee
-Texas
Tier Three is:
-Clemson
-Florida
-Georgia
-LSU
-Wisconsin
And finally, he only had one team in his tier 4: BYU. So essentially, he ranks BYU as the 17th best team all-time. Think about that.
His top tier teams are spot on. You won’t see any argument from me, or any sane college football fan who knows anything about the sport. Bama, Michigan, Ohio State, OU, Notre Dame, and USC have been powerhouses and when you think of winning football traditions, those schools come to mind.
Let’s take a look at the obvious glaring omissions from his list:
Penn State
Nebraska
UCLA
The AP poll made a list of the best teams all-time by ranking teams by how they’ve finished in the AP poll since 1936. Texas comes in at number 7, Nebraska at 8, Tennessee at 9, Penn State at 10, and LSU at 11. So tier two could be rearranged a little, but tier 3 is a mess.
Clemson and Wisconsin come in at 25 and 23, respectively, on AP’s list. Not only are they further down the list, but to say they are better all-time than the likes of PSU and Nebraska is stupid. You can taint Penn State’s image all you want with the Paterno scandal, but you can’t take away what they did on the field.
And BYU? Are you serious? BYU ranked number 60 on the AP list of all-time teams. That means that on average, since the AP poll began, 59 teams have finished better than BYU. That includes teams like SMU (thank you, Sherwood Blount), Duke, Army, Purdue, Kentucky, and Penn.
Colin is just trolling us as usual, right?.
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Texas sucks.
9 years ago at 11:34 amgo back to cuba
9 years ago at 12:33 pmTo be fair, it sounded like he was just naming schools off the top of his head to support a different argument. Anyone who actually sits down and makes a list can’t keep out two of the top 10 winningest programs of all time in Nebraska and Penn State.
9 years ago at 11:40 amNo Texas A&M?
9 years ago at 11:46 amHaha.
9 years ago at 1:48 pmMiami won 5 championships, but also narrowly lost 2 others. They temporarily won then eventually lost the OT thriller to Ohio St in 2002 and a 14-10 loss to Penn State in 1986. In the modern desegregated era of college football, they are top tier.
9 years ago at 11:54 amThey should make a 30 for 30 about this…
9 years ago at 1:22 pmThey have only been good (extremely good) for only 20 years, all of this while playing in the Big East and ACC, while having some of the shittiest fans and football tradition in all of CFB. They will always be Tier 2 on my book.
9 years ago at 1:23 pm90% of their fans end up either going to FIU or nowhere at all and will scream in your face about how good The U is while not even going to their games.
9 years ago at 2:28 pmBut the ones who do go to Miami are still smarter than those Seminole fucks
9 years ago at 4:15 pmlol nah.
9 years ago at 8:27 pm3 titles in the 1980’s. I know their fans suck, but that list is coming a different day.
9 years ago at 2:55 pmWhat a dumb list. College football was a thing last century too.
9 years ago at 12:00 pmFuck Notre Dame. Ruined the Bigeast and is the most overrated program in all of college sports. My god do i hate them. Go ahead lap me, but fuck them.
9 years ago at 12:01 pmHow is UCLA an obvious glaring omission?
9 years ago at 12:08 pmUniversity of Texas is a storied program. They have won Championship after Championship from the beginning of college football itself. A truly dominant program. By no means am I saying to take one of the other programs out of the top tier but how can he say that they barely make the second tier when they have just as much if not more success in college football history as some of the 1st tier teams
9 years ago at 12:11 pmBecause they don’t
9 years ago at 12:16 pmNever get a job in sales, because no one ever cares about the shit you’ve already sold.
9 years ago at 1:04 pmYou dumb fuck this entire argument is about shit that has already happened
9 years ago at 1:14 pmBYU is just fucking inconsistent. They’re good one year, have two potential Heisman candidates on their roster, and then stumble and fall through the rest of their season after losing to a team like Utah State or Nevada. Big 12 would be better off with Houston. At least they may end up with Briles in a year or two.
9 years ago at 12:11 pmI fell like BYU has wayyyy more tradition and history than UH. Both of them should be the clear favorites to join the Big12 though.
9 years ago at 1:14 pmTexas has the 2nd most wins in college football history…
9 years ago at 12:23 pm4th most wins… jackass
9 years ago at 12:51 pmIm an Auburn grad, but there is no way we should be 2nd tier.
9 years ago at 12:24 pmYou guys wish you were second tier in the education department
9 years ago at 1:15 pmLearn your history. Auburn could claim at least 4 more championships using Bama standards. I honestly don’t want us to do that, but we have three Heismans, are top 10 when it comes to money and you should know how many tradition we have better than anyone else. Easily some of the most loyal fans in CFB, plus we have to deal with the SEC every single year, specially Bama and UGA. I’m obviously biased, but that’s just the way I feel.
9 years ago at 1:18 pmSolid point.
9 years ago at 2:02 pm