David Smoak, Paul Catalina, and Craig Smoak discuss their thoughts on the what constitutes a blue blood, how many blue bloods are there in college football, and more.
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How Many Blue Bloods are There in College Football? | CFB | Alabama | Oklahoma | Nebraska | Texas
The USC hate! Is he a fool or just petty? Last 20 years USC has as many National titles as any team not named Bama & LSU. They had 3 dynasties in modern college football and have as many Hiesman trophies as anyone.
What happened to Arkansas? Until they moved into the SEC, they were, at the very least, Top Ten.
And, his list is only football.
Army & Navy are also Blue Bloods, historically, as are Harvard & Yale – even though their current competitiveness isn’t what would give that “vibe”; they are Blue Bloods and they have produced multiple Heisman Trophy winners (historic individual contributors). Maybe a separate category for national relevancy: National Defense for the military schools and educational contributions for the academic Blue Bloods. But, you’d have to include Stanford, Rice, A&M, SMU, MIT and Virginia (and all the Ivy League schools) in those conversations.
Historic performance is extremely relevant in “assigning” Blue Blood status. Those schools who were powers in the ‘30s, ‘40s, ‘50s & ‘60s established the status. That leaves out the Florida schools and Clemson. The later powers have to establish a much longer continuity in order to break through because the prior schools are the ones that established the Category and echo in the Halls of Time. It’s very difficult to create that same resonance in current times. Legend can’t be just manufactured, it has to be ingrained into History and reverberate in Human Memory.
Basketball Blue Bloods would include Kansas, UCLA, UNC, Duke, Georgetown, Indiana…
Arguably, Arizona, Houston, Virginia…
Baseball and “Olympic Sports” are a whole other line of reasoning as they don’t have the visibility.
If you’re arguing over time or the length of their schools history, you have to include Nebraska, LSU and Penn state. FSU could be included when you consider their track record during the 80s.
Not true, guy in the middle. You're saying there was NO national champions before 1936?¿ Shake yo'self!
LOL! Why does Michigan belong in the blue bloods? They have two legitimate titles in the last 90 years.
Penn State had Joe Paterno, the winning-est coach in the history of college football! They are bluer than blue. Clemson is a good team but pink inside.
For Sure:
USC
Oklahoma
Michigan
Ohio State
Norte Dame
Alabama
Texas I think is only a blue blood because of their revenue because they don’t even have the championships or history of the above 6 mentioned.
Potentially still blue blood
Nebraska
Florida State
I don’t see why Heisman trophies, an individual achievement award is included in the mix!!! This should be about the program!!!
Georgia Bleeds red, everyone keep looking in the rear view!!!
Georgia, Kirby keeps looking ahead!!! Go Dawgs!!!
If Florida is not a blue blood, then these schools are not blue bloods: USC, Oklahoma, ND, Texas, Michigan, Nebraska, Penn State, Tennessee. Florida has a more recent national championship than any of those schools. If you want to exclude Florida, then I'm excluding all those schools.
Pretty simple, if you have to try and argue the fact that you are a blue blood….you simply are not.
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My Blue Bloods are teams that have been extremely prestigious for 50+ years and to me Blue Blood status can't be lost as it is more a representation of the historically elite programs of the TV era rather than just the current elites.
USC
Oklahoma
Texas
Michigan
Ohio State
Alabama
Notre Dame
Nebraska
I think that the “Blue Bloods” are simply the strongest BRANDS in college football.
Where’s Kansas State?
Missing Texas A&M
Fun trivia: the term "blue bloods" for elite college teams was first applied in college basketball. It was used because the four teams who met the standard all had blue as their primary color. Ironically, most of the "blue bloods" in football tend to prefer red…
I can’t wait to hear how many people call me crazy after this comment, but since the turn of the century, TCU is more of a “Blue Blood” in terms of on field success, than Nebraska, Penn State, Michigan, USC, Tennessee, Miami, Notre Dame, and Florida State. It’s True, downvote away…. Can’t Wait!
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Blue bloods are USC, Bama, Texas, OU, NU, ND, Michigan, OSU, PSU, and Maybe PSU. Tennessee only has 2 nattys, many years apart, Florida's history basically starts in 89 with Spurriers higher, LSU has only gotten good this century, they're other title is a split with iowa in the 50s, Miami was good from 1980-2002, not long enough, Georgia and Clemson were good in the early 80s and then have been good recently (up until 2021 Georgia Tech had a more recent natty than Georgia). The SEC has so many mickey mouse nattys. On the Tennessee vs Nebrasks Tenn has 2 legit nattys nebraska had 5. If Nebraska did what alabama and Tennessee did nebraska has 12 unclaimed titles
thank god for college basketball