Most College Football National Championship Titles 1869 - 2019
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- Опубліковано 1 лис 2019
- Most College Football National Championship Titles 1869 - 2019 (150 Years)
Teams with the most national titles:
Yale, Alabama, Princeton, Notre Dame, Michigan, USC, Harvard, Ohio State, Penn State, Oklahoma, Minnesota, Pittsburgh, Nebraska, Miami FL, LSU, Texas, Army, Cornell, Georgia Tech, Illinois, California, Michigan State, Clemson, Florida State, Florida Gators.
The first college football national championship was awarded 150 years ago, in 1869.
That season was eight days long and consisted of exactly two games: Princeton at Rutgers (which Rutgers won), and Rutgers at Princeton (which Princeton won). Later, the Billingsley Report and the National Championship Foundation named Yale the first national champion, while in 1933, college football historian Parke H. Davis concluded that both Rutgers and Yale were co-champions.
Since that year, 186 national champions have been named, with some years seeing two or even three teams crowned.
In that span, only 44 teams have claimed a college football national championship title.
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1. Yale - 18
Championships: 1874, 1876, 1877, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1886, 1887, 1888, 1891, 1892, 1894, 1900, 1907, 1909, 1927
Yale football has one of the most impressive resumes in the sport, with two of the first three Heisman winners, 100 All-Americans, 28 Hall of Fame inductees, and 18 national championships recognized by the NCAA - the most of all time.
T2. Alabama - 15
Championships: 1925, 1926, 1930, 1961, 1964, 1965, 1978, 1979, 1992, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2017
Alabama can claim the most NCAA titles in the poll era, with only three of its 15 coming prior. With the 15th title - a win in the College Football Playoff in 2017, coach Nick Saban tied the legendary Bear Bryant with five championships recognized by the NCAA. That was Saban’s fifth in nine years.
T2. Princeton - 15
Championships: 1869, 1870, 1872, 1873, 1878, 1879, 1880, 1885, 1889, 1893, 1896, 1903, 1906, 1911, 1922
Princeton claims 28 national championships, though only 15 are recognized by the NCAA. None of them came in the poll era, but there’s no denying the Tigers’ ridiculous run in the late 19th century, when they won championships in 11 of 28 years, including four in five years from 1869 to 1873.
4. Notre Dame - 13
Championships: 1919, 1924, 1929, 1930, 1943, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1964, 1966, 1973, 1977, 1988
Notre Dame’s nine championships in the poll era are the second-most out of all teams. You can thank coach Frank Leahy for four of those, but Leahy also won two titles as a player for the Fighting Irish under another famous coach - Knute Rockne.
T6. Michigan - 9
Championships: 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1918, 1923, 1933, 1948, 1997
Michigan famously holds the record for the most wins in college football history, so it naturally follows that the Wolverines have a few titles to their name. Surprisingly, they only have two in the poll era (since 1936).
T6. Southern California - 9
Championships: 1931, 1932, 1962, 1967, 1972, 1974, 1978, 2003, 2004
No USC coach was more successful than John McKay, who in 16 years at the helm, led the Trojans to four national championships between 1960 and 1975.
T8. Harvard - 8
Championships: 1875, 1890, 1898, 1899, 1910, 1912, 1913, 1919
Harvard is approaching the 100th anniversary of its most recent championship, giving it the longest title drought of any team on this list.
T8. Ohio State - 8
Championships: 1942, 1954, 1957, 1961, 1968, 1970, 2002, 2014
Ohio State officially formed a football team in 1890, but the Buckeyes wouldn’t win a national championship until 1942. That year, after losing dozens of players who left to fight in World War II, Ohio State went 9-1, its only loss coming against No. 6 Wisconsin.
9. Oklahoma - 7
hampionships: 1950, 1955, 1956, 1974, 1975, 1985, 2000
The Sooners won a trio of titles each under Bud Wilkinson and Barry Switzer. Oklahoma leads all FBS programs with four different 100-win coaches in school history.
10. Minnesota - 6
Championships: 1934, 1935, 1936, 1940, 1941, 1960
Football was slightly different when Minnesota won its first national title in 1934. The Golden Gophers averaged 325 yards per game that year - 295 of which came on the ground. - Спорт
Harvard, Yale and Princeton winning multiple titles back when there was like 5 teams 🙄🙄🙄
You’re talking to a Princeton fan right now 😂
I can smell Alabama on you
do yale harvard and Princeton fans really watch college football and shouldnt they be watching polo or something
Exactly, sort of missing 17 for Bama, but thats their M.O
Me realizing Minnesota was once good at football.
🤔🤔🤔
SEC: We're the best conference
19th Century Ivy League: Hold my leather helmet
nah SEC fans think only the years they do well are all that exists, the rest of college football history is just a big empty chasm to them. doesn't exist.
@@ohioagainsttheworld676 I know like 3 sec fans who are like that tbh but I see your point you can’t lie though they’ve produced some great teams
@@tyleremmons3872 yes, very much so. I used to like Bama and LSU. until I met a few of their fans lol but yeah they produce some fast, solid teams
@@ohioagainsttheworld676 LSU fans are dick heads so are some Alabama fans
@@chemix3789 no joke. that one year of success went to their heads a bit too much.
1945, Army were National Champs and World War Champs. Incredible
Underrated comment, woulda had more if you said Inspirational rather than incredible
@@connorkinsley1810 yeah definitely. I read it as inspirational without realizing it was wrote incredible lol.
Because every other able-bodied athlete was fighting in the war. Those Army players were studying, not fighting.
Back to back world war champs!
😂😂😂😂
This just shows that you don't have to be the best at what you do, you just have to be first.
haha. So true in business. That reminds me of a line from a movie called Margin Call.
@@aarodful not the time to talk about movies
😂
And they still count! 👍🏼
Michigan and Alabama the real ones
Princeton an Yale will never win again, The only reason why they have so many cause they were like the first 2 main college organizations back then😂
Tj Williams And they are FCS now.
Super Man Lol
Tj Williams they are D2 now lol and it was before black people started showing up lmaoo
Andersen Barry Wsu Va Tech Bama Fan And Ivy Leagues don’t play for National Championships anymore
The Pikachu of Texas Yeah, they can still win for FCS or D1-AA. But they can’t win for the FBS anymore.
Friend: Who has won the most college football titles?
You: Yale
Well the yankees are still consistently in the conversation
@@blakesmith7073 give it a couple years and they won’t be on top anymore especially if Alabama has nick saban
It’s crazy bc Alabama actually has 17 (fake natty claims blah blah blah you can say that about literally every one of these teams stop cherry picking) and almost all of them have come after 1960
@@JohnnyLoveseat Damn right we have 17.
@@jadonschriver8583 thats 18 now sir!
So the University of Chicago won a championship, wow
I think they are actually d3 now. Pretty weird what is was like back then.
I think they had like Red Grange or something
@@peterquill7049 Red Grange went to Illinois.
@@calebgalvan54 they were in Big Ten at the time though
They are mentioned in the fight song, “On Wisconsin.”
Any “championship” before the 1936 season when the AP Poll started is basically PR propaganda.
Or a claimed title
any championship pre 70s is bs
There's a lot of controversial championships even after 36
BAMA still has the most championships after 1936, and certainly after the 70s BAMA has the most in the POLE era period RTR
@Andy Gygi they did have a voting system in the 20s BAMA still has the most in the pole era the NCAA recognizes 17 nattys for BAMA
Surprised Rutgers were on there a couple times
Cause they are one of the oldest schools
They invented the sport
Rutgers is one of the first schools in the US...
Just spitting facts
There were like 5 teams so it actually just shows how fucking bad they were
When your still number despite not winning a championship in over 90years
@MR.random57 amen. I always do the same too
I did a little research on Alabama's football record over the last 60 years. I started there because Coach Paul Bryant won his first one in 1961. In that time, Bama has won 12 national championships. They've had 11 other seasons in which they lost only one game. In several of those years, they went undefeated until they lost their bowl game or a national championship game. So Bama was just one win per season from having 23 championships.
They've had 12 other years in which they lost two games. So that's 35 of the last 60 years where they've lost two or fewer games.
Quick math 🧮
Dominance!
Yale played in a time where you wouldn’t be down till you stopped moving, so people sewed briefcase handles onto players pants and lineman dragged them whenever tackled for a couple extra yards
I’m pretty sure the jets won a championship somewhere in there
KD about to time travel just so he can play for Yale
my next chapter: 1880s Yale football
Can we just take a minute and realize that Lafayette and Cornell were there?
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Minnesota has 7
Yeah this is clearly a sec propaganda job
Alabama looking for their 18th championship title and Ohio State looking for their 9th. 😎🏈
Facts
Nah Alabama was claiming titles when they finished 3rd in the SEC and lost their bowl game
People talk about Alabama claiming titles. Pretty sure a lot of colleges claimed titled. I mean Auburn supposedly has 3 when they were voted the champs one time
Fake titles
@@LineMountain haters gonna hate
You gave the championships Penn (the Ivy League school) won to Penn State (Big Ten School). Penn State should only have 2 and never be seen.
Was wondering that too 😂
Seeing so many “Bama has 17 titles” comments makes me so......
HAAAAPPPY 😂😂
i think bama claims 5 they dont even have
@Keegan nichols Damn bro, who hurt you?
@@fbigov10chad they have multiple winners a few years that bama won
@Keegan nichols damn bro I’m all for defending the integrity of Alabama, but maybe tone it down a notch
Now 18 BABY
Now Alabama just got there 18th
18th
18th
18th!!!!
16*
Make that 16 titles for alabama
I think it’s actually 18, the guy got it wrong
Or he just counted the undisputed titles that Bama won
@@sambenham1945 I guess I haven’t kept up with my team’s history thanks for correcting me
ALABAMA HAS 18 TITLES NOW
There wasn’t even 50 states when Princeton and Yale were winning. Hell USA was still fighting Indians off the land those should not count
Haha Alabama mad
*Native Americans
@@anderson74 did his sentance confuse you so bad you needed to corect it.
Sorry bud, Alabama ain't got shit on Yale! (I kid of course.)
Good job
This might be a cool video format if it tracked rivalries. Ohio State - Michigan, USC - Notre Dame Auburn- Alabama
I bleed Crimson and Cream for the Oklahoma Sooners never will that change but all the respect in the world to Alabama, dayum !
Guy like me gonna build up Cornell’s program and win a bunch of titles like a real man💯
If Butch Davis never left to the NFL in 2000 the Canes would have easily been with 15+ His Legacy Rite now would have been astonishing and Amazing!!! Where he had that Program and left so soon as he did he really did College Football a Huge Favor
Hey what app did you use for this graph? Thanks in advance
Got left on seen lol
@@jomomma3318 lol I know bro sucks
Brih you missed two of bamas in the bear bryant era cuz they got 17
as a bama fan id be ok with 16 because the 1941 claim is sus at best (we lost two games while there were undefeated teams that year), but 1934 def should have been counted.
@@bamafan73191 fax
Even as a hard core Bama fan the Title they count from the 40s is a joke. A 2 loss team. Not AP or UPI champions. They need to drop that one.
@@parysumlar4243 I agree but if we can’t claim that one then Notre dame can’t claim the year they played to a tie and Bama was undefeated
@@savagesouth1806 Yeah. My biggest issue with that is they invited ND to play Bama in the Sugar Bowl and they choose to not play in any bowl game. Dodged it like cowards.
is this on a website or what, what do they do this on
How pit just casually comes on and off the screen
Michigan State from 1951 to 1966 accumulated 6 national titles but I didn't even see it on the list
Show proof
Tennessee won the title in 1951 sorry. Check your facts
Michigan State Spartans national titles 1951 1952 1955 1957 1965 1966 I have the commemorative plaque as my picture
@@andrewshaw3790 Tennessee national titles 1914 1927 1928 1931 1938 1939 1940 1950 1951 1956 1967 1985 1989 1998 (14)
😬 well this got awkward. What is the truth!?! Lol
Uh... ND beat bama in 73 and ND went undefeated, how did Bama get a 73 share?
Cuz Bama
Because bama got the vote before the game happened
With that amount of Championships you would think Yale would have better recruiting
......
Very interesting. I would like to see a listing from say 1985 and/or 2000.
Wisconsin has 0.
They have 1
You can claim all the titles pre WW II that you want in football but that doesn’t mean you really won a championship. lol
Ehhh it does in a way its history...that's why we change the rules for betterment of the game...now you can't claim shit you actually have to win
@@aysaturday6213 tell that to ucf. They think they have a championship.
@@jonboy87 they dont lol thats my point back in the day you coulda gotten away with that now you can't Lol
@@jonboy87 also they dont have it in their trophy case..its still empty
@@aysaturday6213 Alabama can say the same. They claim one but they don’t have the trophy to prove that.
So was the national title game an actual game back then or was it just like a bowl game? Let’s say the #1 team in the country was an sec team and they play in the sugar bowl against the best team out of the big12 who could have been like #5. Do they still play each other? While the #2 team played in the rose bowl? Or did the #1 and #2 team play each other in the championship which was a bowl game that was predetermined before the season even started? I’m asking about about like back in the 1900’s. From like the 30’s to 90’s.
Alabama: we have the most titles
Yale: hold my tea, hold my books, hold my Bachelors and Masters.
This comment won’t age well bro
It’s actually. 17 for alabama
12*
@@atlsooner85 17...argue all you want lol if you wanna take away bamas you have to take a ways some of michigans ND ohio states and yales and also ucfs💀 if say Bama claimed 1 where they went 9-2 back all the way in Damn 1930's but you might as well keep everything where it's at💯 Yale has 18....but they played all the national championships at their home stadium....so you gonna take away all of theirs??? Didnt think so
@@aysaturday6213 lol ND and Michigan don't even advertise those at their schools. Look at oklahoma for example they could claim 18,. Ohio state could claim 16, but Don't. Alabama still has 12 legit titles that's still more than any school of legitimate titles. Look it up there was a 1980's football program that author added 5 additional unclaimed titles.
@@atlsooner85 yeah a book author gave Bama 5 extra natties...listen we only use 15%of our brain but people "trying" to figure this out I dont think so. Anyway you'd have to strip the rest of the blue bloods and take away ALL of Yale's..but nobodies going to do that...so leave it where it is....REGARDLESS of this convo and what other people say Bama is still gonna claim 17 and on the verge (this year) of winning #18...it is what it is.
@@aysaturday6213 REEEEEEE THEY HAVE 17 REEEEEEE!!!! - Every Bama fan
Ahhh poor Rutgers.... Started off good... 😂
In 2019 LSU won the championship, followed by Alabama in 2020, and Georgia in 2021
Yale is cold🥶 I’m a Yale fan now
Alabama has 17 not 15
Bro this was in 2018
That's the number of titles Alabama claims
@@mranderson2327 have not claimed have
I guess the 17 rings they have in the trophy room in t-town are made up huh? go watch it on you tube shows every ring and what year
@Keegan nichols I'm not some teenage boy who gets excited about smiley faces hearts and thumbs up. I really couldn't care less about your opinion of me!
NDSU has 14
They play in a different division
@@madwrestler1455 so does Yale Princeton and Harvard buttttt
Go ahead and add another for Bama 2021.
Yale after 1927: *aight ima head out*
Alabama has 17
Legit 17 right? Not counting those "national championships" where people go back and re-evaluate and determine their own national champion right? I mean A&M did that to inflate their numbers. Surely Bama isn't doing the same.
@Praxton-de-Nouveau 12 of them are definitely legit.
Bear Bryant won 6
Gene Stallings Win over Miami in 92 is Legit.
Saban has won 5 at Bama
🤣🤣 You mean like the 1941 title you stupid hicks claim when you were 8-2 finished 3rd in the SEC and ranked #20?
You don't get to crown yourself champion.
@@FAITHandLOGIC bamas got 17 if you're gonna strip Bama you have to strip the rest of the blue bloods...but youre not because EVERY TEAM is gonna hang on to their titles....Yale has 18.....but they played all their championships AT THEIR HOME STADIUM....doesnt sound to fair....but are you gonna strip ALL THEIR TITLES? No? Thats what I thought
It’s crazy bc Alabama actually has 17 (fake natty claims blah blah blah you can say that about literally every one of these teams stop cherry picking) and almost all of them have come after 1960
Edit: 18
They actually prove of them because I have want there to see all the rings they have in its facility. Them are not fake natty at all.
There is a Big Ten team that had back to back unbeaten seasons in 1921 and 1922 and they don’t have those. Can’t remember what team for sure.
Don't know how accurate this is
So with in the next 7 year Alabama will be the Greatest college football team of all time...they basically are already but 19 chips will seal it.
Alabama has 17 what is wrong with you
Not 1941
its not counting claimed titles
It doesn’t count fake titles
Don’t be so rude he’s counting out right wins
Bitch
@@KentlandVFD33 You Dumbass, then what about the 2003 lsu champs? They claimed it too. Bama has 17 national championships end of story
Nice
I'm pretty sure you've got Penn State confused with Penn at the start
Penn state has 2
Yes. He’s confused it with the University of Pennsylvania.
Michigan has 11
Yeah but this chart isn't really good alabama has 17 so
Michigan still sucks! Kim Hairball foreva!
RJR Parker ok???
Yes and all of them should be given back for the terrible coaches and some homer fans who still think they are good
1934 Alabama was undefeated and Rose Bowl champion. Alabama claims it and it's as valid as any other pre 1936 title
@D Mass error...1925 Bama played in the “grand daddy of them all” RoseBowl and beat Washington to become the 1st team from the South to be awarded the ship by the standard of the day.
Do a video of the ones that matter.
fun fact princeton and yale’s official football pages follow me on twitter
Cool
Alabama has 17 titles btw
No they don't. There is like 5 years that shouldn't count.
@@atlsooner85 they got 17 bro just like the movie frozen let it go
So they claim
@@mranderson2327 just like other schools including ND Michigan Oklahoma usc and also if and Yale has 18 but they played all their national championship games AT HOME...leave shit where it is even if they took bamas "claimed titles" theyd still have more than anyone else
@@aysaturday6213 This is the response of somebody who doesn't know about college football and just goes off what somebody else says. I'm referring to the video not public opinion.
Do shared titles (disputed) even count???
SEC: We are the best conference
Ivy League: hold my masters degree
Vols should have been on there! They had 5 after 1967!
Sarcasm?
Yeah they had 4 by 1951 and not on list
We have 14 soo they should’ve finished on there
Vols didn't win the title in 1967 they only have 2 National titles and plus national titles in college football really don't matter all what matters is if your team is good today because college football national titles are the easiest to win out of any sports.
@@Hunter87788 no. They counted everyone else's claimed titles but not ours. It's bullshit.
Who even knew Chicago was a college?
Chicago university, coach amos alonzo stagg, held the winningest coach's record before Bear Bryant broke it, but stagg coached about 50 years Bryant coached Alabama for 25 years
University of Chicago was a founding member of “The Western Conference “, the proper name for what was popularly called “The Big 10”. John D. Rockefeller Sr. gave the money to establish it. Has been considered one of the top universities for academics, research and intellectualism in America since its founding. Not so much for football.
Wow, even this video found a way to snub UVA when it was a early 1900s power house
All of those were unclaimed
Redo it from when the ap poll was invented because everything before that was just random
Alabama has 17 not 15 😂
Should be 6 because of illegal recruiting
so true @100 percent%
😂😂😂
@@Percent-ed2el how did they recruit illegally?
@@Percent-ed2el you just mad lsu boi
The Chicago Bears were a College Football team?
They play like it sometimes.
@@hockeygoalie94 everyone liked that
They need to redo the record books. When football first started out it was a weird mix of soccer and rugby and each school would come up with their own rules. At one point it was 25 vs 25 on the field playing each other at the same time it was nuts. In my honest opinion no national championship before the forward pass should even count because that is what truly transformed the sport into what it is now. That's why I think they should only count them starting from 1912 that's when modern american football rly began.
harvard yale now a days an under rated rivalry. they have the best tail gating scene where you might run into thurston howell iii & richard gilmore
Michigan state should’ve been there in the 50s
How many did they win ?
@@kailanford2684 6 up to 1966
As of 2019 Alabama has 17 National Championships.
Nope. You are including “claimed” titles. I don’t know how they are distributing those. So chill homer.
@@blakehaun972 kicking that ###
2:20 nick saban has entered the chat
Damn Yale. Killing it in the 1800s
Yeah but not many teams in early football starting out, and some like 6 game seasons or something they don't have any AP poll era championships zero
Alabama won it in 1934.
That's what they claim
@@mranderson2327 Dunkel, Houlgate, Poling systems and Williamson said Alabama was national champs. Any way you count it Alabama has the most in major college football.
@@rolltide9547 That title still belongs to Yale wether you consider them a major school or not.
@@mranderson2327 Yale went 5-3 that year no bowl game. Alabama was undefeated and won the Rose Bowl . Check facts before you post crap.
@@rolltide9547 My post is in reference to the video, take it up with him. Stop crying because Alabama doesn't have the all time record like you suggest. Facts not Fiction!
17 looking to be 18 Bama💯🏈
Bama got 18 national championships now
How long before we see an Alabama, Notre Dame, Michigan and USC playoff. Those are the four most successful programs that are likely to ever be chosen.
Kinda wish it didn't drip off other teams as it went. I'd have liked to see when each school won its first and how many have only 1
U got University of Pennsylvania mixed up with Penn State. U Penn has 7 and Penn State 2.
Shhh...
ive never seen yale on any ncaa game lol
I think championships before the early 1900 hold less weight simply because there weren’t as many teams to play to begin with.
False: Alabama has won 18 championships!
False: Alabama "claims" 17 national championships
In a few hours Alabama will have 18
@@seahawkjoe4038, yes sirrrr!!!!
Alabama has won 18 national championships what is yell talking about research it.
Where was lsu?
We got 4
Lsu has 2 as of 2020 not 2019
Even if you got 4 that still wouldn't put you on the list
@@lukejohnston6614 has 4 total
@Keegan nichols that's not what I said
You counted unclaimed championships???
Alabama now has 18. RMFTR
Pittsburgh has 9 but eh
usc has 11
No Yale has 10 Alabama has 18
Alabama has 17 that is not a question
@@lukejohnston6614 Yeah, when they crowned themselves champions for at least 6 of those.
Luke Johnston less than that officially. One of their natties was when they went 9-2 and finished in the 20s in the AP poll but just claimed a title
@@FAITHandLOGIC mad cause bad
@@collegefootballfrenzy1344 good point
Proud of the 6 my Tennessee Vols have
Damn right
This video was made a year ago? Alabama had 17 at that time.
Bama had 17🤦🏼♂️
Lol no they don't
@@kylethomas2993 yeah they do
Alabama has the bling bling ROLL TIDE!!!
Off by a couple championships for some of these programs.
So Bama has most in Modern Era, shocker
Lmao!!! All the triggered gumps in the comment section with the type type type cause they feel cheated cause you didn’t list all their “championships”
Well this is a video on how many championships the top ten schools have?????
Thats kinda dumb there was like 5 teams when it first started and wasn’t even a championship game shouldn’t count
Bama fan, I'm guessing?
@@ohioagainsttheworld676 No
I only see Bama fans crying about that....
@@ohioagainsttheworld676 Idc I’m just saying
So I guess we're tied now with Yale 18 a piece 2021
Why isn't Yale in fbs d1?
Nah Yale and Princeton don’t count😂
Yes they do when someone ask me who is the best football team of all time is say hello jk 😂😂😂
Yeah they do, people hate on them because they won all of them before WWI but they definitely should be counted