Maryland, Navy Make College Football All-Time Rankings List

COLLEGE PARK, MD — Two Maryland universities have landed spots in the first Associated Press list of all-time best football programs, which gave the Ohio State Buckeyes the No. 1 spot.

The AP used the following formula to determine the top 25 teams:

• poll appearances (one point) to mark consistency,
• No. 1 rankings (two points) to acknowledge elite programs
• and gave a bonus for AP championships (10 points)

The University of Maryland Terrapins were ranked at No. 40 on the AP list, while the U.S. Naval Academy placed at No. 60.

Maryland garnered 230 points on the AP scale, while Navy captured 128 points.

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By comparison, the Buckeyes collected a total of 1,112 points with a combination of 852 poll appearances, 105 No. 1 rankings and five championships.

The AP poll goes back 80 years, and over 1,103 polls, a total of 165 schools have been ranked and 44 of them have been ranked No. 1 (Minnesota was the first).

Here are the top five teams and how they scored:

1. Ohio State (1,112 Points)
2. Oklahoma (1,055 Points)
3. Notre Dame (1,042 Points)
4. Alabama (993 Points)
5. Southern California (974 Points)