There\u2019s a lot of discussion around college football concerning tradition. Some schools like Oregon would be more considered a \u2018new blood\u2019 versus other storied programs that earn the \u2018blue blood\u2019 designation. It is not a slight to be considered a new blood which means that you have reached a certain level of success more recently. <\/p>\n
I think Oregon falls into this category. Prior to the 2000\u2019s, they won some but not consistently. At least not at the level we see from Oregon today. The Ducks are one of the winningest teams in college football in the 2000\u2019s. Don\u2019t believe me?<\/p>\n
Well the Athletic did the legwork for me. In a story published Friday,<\/a> Oregon checked in at No. 7 in Stewart Mandel\u2019s rankings. Despite not winning a national championship, he pointed to Oregon\u2019s success as an elite team. Coincidentally, Oregon was ranked one spot ahead of USC in his rankings.<\/p>\n \u201cSome may scoff at ranking Oregon this high without having won a national championship, but every other data point is that of an elite program. The Ducks\u2019 182 weeks spent in the AP top 10 are higher than the likes of LSU, Clemson and Texas, among others. And they\u2019ve been to more BCS\/NY6 bowls than USC, Michigan and Notre Dame.\u201d<\/p>\n Here is how Mandel explained how he arrived at his rankings. <\/p>\n \u201cThe factors I considered when ranking the top programs of the 2000s so far: Overall winning percentage, BCS or New Year\u2019s Six bowl appearances (including last year\u2019s first-round CFP games), national championships, conference championships*, wins against ranked opponents (via\u00a0Stathead<\/a>), percentage of total weeks spent in the AP Top 25 and top 10 (via\u00a0College Poll Archive<\/a>) and, as a counterbalance, their number of losing seasons.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBecause every league but the SEC had co-champions at some point this century, I used each league\u2019s automatic BCS\/CFP entrant to ensure only one champion per year in each conference.\u201d<\/p>\n Here is Mandel\u2019s top 25 ranking of CFB teams in the 2000\u2019s. <\/p>\n Ohio State<\/p>\n Alabama<\/p>\n Oklahoma<\/p>\n Georgia<\/p>\n LSU<\/p>\n Clemson<\/p>\n Oregon<\/p>\n USC<\/p>\n Texas<\/p>\n Florida<\/p>\n Michigan<\/p>\n Florida State<\/p>\n Notre Dame <\/p>\n Miami<\/p>\n Auburn<\/p>\n Wisconsin<\/p>\n Penn State<\/p>\n Virginia Tech<\/p>\n TCU<\/p>\n Boise State<\/p>\n Oklahoma State<\/p>\n Utah<\/p>\n Iowa<\/p>\n Washington<\/p>\n Michigan State<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s a lot of discussion around college football concerning tradition. Some schools like Oregon would be more considered…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,49,48,869,21886,1382,1788],"class_list":{"0":"post-74161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-or","12":"tag-oregon-ducks-eugene","13":"tag-oregon-football","14":"tag-regwall"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114559970539310333","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}