The long and storied success of the Oklahoma Sooners makes it one of the premier programs in college football. It has been for the better part of a century.
College Football News recently went through each of the Associated Press Top 25 polls since the first one in 1936 and scored each program based on its finish in the final AP Top 25 each season.
How did College Football News score each team? “Take all the AP final rankings and use our simple scoring system – the AP national champion in each season gets 25 points, the No. 2 team 24, No. 3 23 and so on down to the bottom.”
So, finishing 25th in the AP Top 25 nets a team one point.
Since the Associated Press Poll was first released 86 years ago (1936), Oklahoma finished a season inside the Top 25 61 times. In 33 of those years, the Sooners finished within the top five. So, it isn’t surprising the Sooners were named the greatest college football program of all time by the rankings.
Alabama, which comes in at No. 2 on College Football News rankings, has finished within the top five 28 times. While the Crimson Tide have more finishes at No. 1 and have ended the season inside the top 10 one more time than the Sooners, they also have more finishes outside the top 25 (26) than Oklahoma.
How the top 10 shakes out.
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Oklahoma Sooners: 1,136 points
University of Oklahoma football coach Charles “Bud” Wilkinson, left, receives the Coach of the Year Award for 1949 plaque from Joe Williams, center, executive sports editor of Scripps Howard Newspapers, at the American Football Coaches Association dinner in New York, Jan. 12, 1950. At right is L.R. “Dutch” Meyer, former president of the association. AP Photo/Matty Zimmerman
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Alabama Crimson Tide: 1,129
Jan. 11, 2021; Miami Gardens, Florida; Alabama Crimson Tide head coach Nick Saban celebrates after defeating the Ohio State Buckeyes in the 2021…
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