We passed Georgia Tech...

The College Football Data Warehouse, a very authoritative and respected source for college football statistics, keeps a running list of who they think are the top college football programs of all-time. Their methodology is explained on their site they assign various points to things like national championships, big bowl wins, all-time winning percentage, all-time schedule strength, etc.

The past few years, we have been ranked one spot lower than Georgia Tech because of their 4 national championships to our 2 and that stretch of history where they had the best all-time bowl winning percentage.

I just looked at it, and we leaped them! We are #11 and they are #12! The Sugar Bowl win was enough to put us up one more spot.

The top 10 teams of all-time going into the 2008-09 football season are

1.) Notre Dame
2.) Alabama
3.) Southern California
4.) Michigan
5.) Oklahoma
6.) Texas
7.) THE Ohio State University
8.) Nebraska
9.) Tennessee
10.) Louisianna State

...11.) Georgia, 12.) Georgia Tech

The two in front of us are SEC teams. I want to pass them.

If we win the SEC championship (beating LSU in the process during the regular season and maybe again in Atlanta) and the national title next year and LSU doesn't win a BCS bowl game, then that should be enough for us to overtake them for the 10 spot. Then the Dawgs will be one of the top 10 division 1 college football programs of all time, as far as The College Football Data Warehouse is concerned.

If we go back to back and win the national championship in the 09-10 season too, that should put us above Tennessee (we would then have more SEC titles and more national titles than the mighty vols, making us the #2 all-time SEC team, behind Alabama).

Catching Nebraska is out of the question for the foreseeable future, as we would need to win like 4 more national championships, but LSU and UT are more than accomplishable during the Mark Richt era at Georgia and soon if we field some REAL GOOD teams these next 2 seasons.

Interestingly, we have the second toughest schedule of all time according to them. Only Michigan has played a tougher all-time schedule than Georgia since college football began. That's a helluva statistic for us!

Excellent post. I wasn't aware that these rankings came out each year. It's nice that, in yet another arena, we can look behind us at Tech and say, \"Enjoying the view?\"

Give me a break, Tennessee?

Easy averagedawg....it's ok, it's just a matter of time.

How about Notre Lame No. 1? At least they had Bama at No. 2. Wait until the end ot this decade and I bet we jump quite a few.