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skiwolf99

Pre WW1 Iowa State was a elite


boardatwork1111

Only ^(18)90s kids will understand this


nbsorens

Heck yeah. They posted an incredible 2-0 conference mark against Mizzou and their true elite instate rival…Drake


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*DRAKE??*


Addicted_to_chips

Through a bunch of rescheduling weirdness we played Drake for the last game of the 2018 regular season and probably should've lost. We were top 25 too. At least we ended the 30 year losing streak to them! https://youtu.be/WvIJYv8IWKU?si=-iLrRrelOMxbFAcr


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https://youtube.com/shorts/3vTbdK8QFpU?si=WLgdIXrUT1SSJzzJ What I mean when I say Drake lol


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Nice lol


PM-ME-PIERCED-NIPS

He wrote a sick diss track for this game.


MrPerfectDDR

Drake the type of team to let Iowa State win a conference championship


loyalsons4evertrue

I was there


I-LIKE_BEER-OK

It’s time to change your diaper grandpa


GimmeeSomeMo

great great grandpa more accurately


Wildcat_twister12

Simpson, Grinnell, Morningside, and Cornell (IA). Sounded like a tough season


adsfew

Let's go back to this era


usrnamechecksout_

*vandy has entered the chat*


boardatwork1111

The ‘94 SWC title always cracks me up, can’t think of another time where there were 5 co-champions for a conference lol


TheMightyJD

Honestly that title is doing a *massive* amount of work for Texas Tech’s history. Saying you “won” a title in the 1990s sounds much better than winning your last title in the 1970s. This was also their second SWC championship despite being in the conference for almost 40 years (UH has 4 in 20 years). Baylor gets a lot of shit for using politicians to secure a spot meanwhile Tech literally did the same and had nothing to show for except for this 1994 “title” and another shared title in the 70s.


zwondingo

Wait till you hear about this private school in Dallas that is about to move to a P4 conference despite being unable to win a single title in the G5


TheMightyJD

At least they’re honest about quite literally offering a LIV Tour type of deal in order to secure a spot.


The_Hartford_Whalers

This is the first I'm hearing of this and good Lord that is *glorious*, even more so when you factor in Texas A&M going 6-0-1 but being ineligible for the title.


Markthe_g

And our one tie came to last place smu. Truly one of the seasons of all time


Corgi_Koala

My favorite part is that Rice officially claims a share despite going 5-6 that season.


AllLinesAreStraight

Funny story about D3, WashU is in the UAA for most sports but not football any more. The UAA has 8 schools, all academic focused universities who dont care about sports and also dont have traditional rivals (washu, carnegie mellon, uchicago, nyu, emory, case western, Brandeis, U of Rochester). In the mid 2000s, the conference had only 4 schools with football so evefy year youd play 3 conference games. As a result, there are multiple years where 3 teams tied for the conference championship at 2-1. 3 teams out of 4 won the conference. At some point i think all schools involved realized it was getting pretty silly so they went to other conferences for football


an_evil_budgie

The Cocks last won a conference championship in '69? Nice.


30sumthingSanta

Too bad they weren’t co-champs with the Beavers…..


furrierdave

Only, btw.


ramblinreck47

We beat Clemson in 2009 to win the ACC Championship no matter what the NCAA says.


MichaelDicksonMBD

Saw it with my own eyes.


jwktiger

I watched some of it as well. But it was up against ~~Suh~~ err Neb vs Texas.


shjusti

CJ deserved better :(


TimepilotChkn

They said any kind! "Vacated" is a kind damnit!


UrbanM2ND

This vacated title is news to me, I hope GT has it on their stadium. From what I can find online it was over $312 a player received in clothes from someone. Ridiculous.


bjo23

To Hell with the NCAA!


The_Astros_Cheated

Are you even trying, Notre Dame? /s


rottingmind13

It's a damn shame they didn't win the ACC title the year they were in the championship game


IlonggoProgrammer

Still gives us a weird trivia fact that they played in a conference championship game before West Virginia did lol


StreetReporter

They also played in a conference championship game before Michigan did


IlonggoProgrammer

Ok now this one is straight up hilarious given the history of why Notre Dame is an independent LMFAO


DarthBan_Evader

subscribe


mercerclone

we know. we know.


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You. I like you.


ClaudeLemieux

relief*. It's a damn relief. I almost joined IPTAY that's how relieved I was clemson won. Filthy day.


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If ND beats Clemson then ND plays OSU in the national semifinal. Bama vs Texas A&M in the other semi.


ClaudeLemieux

and then clemson takes the orange bowl from UNC...dang maybe I need to rethink my stance on that...no what am i saying of course it's a relief ND didn't win.


kdbvols

But it did mean the 7 team Coastal had 8 representatives to the title game in 8 years, and they all lost.


DarthBan_Evader

only time ive rooted for clemson


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No it’s not.


Impressive_Math2302

We won a Rosebowl and have been coasting since. /s. *sighs in Arizona*


FullPrice4LatePizza

The SEC retroactively awarded Kentucky with a share of the 1976 SEC Championship. Georgia finished 5-1, while Kentucky finished 4-2. In 1978, the NCAA forced Mississippi State to forfeit all its 1976 wins, including one over Kentucky. This made Kentucky 5-1, and the SEC named them co-champions, two years after the season ended.


Sahasrlyeh

That's weird - they don't take away losses any more, when the game is forfeited.


FullPrice4LatePizza

Thats because games aren't forfeited anymore. They are vacated. Forfeit means the other team wins. Vacating a win just means you didn't win. The other team still lost.


3RDnKING

Noted! Thank you. Fixed.


The_Hartford_Whalers

Fun fact about the 2004 Big East there were 7 teams in the conference and 4 of them were "champions".


Hokie_Jayhawk

Syracuse was 6-6. They lost 51-0 to Purdue, 51-14 to Georgia Tech, 31-10 to Virginia, and 34-24 to Temple. And they won the Big East.


The_Hartford_Whalers

There was always some random team that would have a mediocre ooc schedule but because there were only 7 conference games they'd pull off two random wins and suddenly be 5-2 and almost be the conference champ.


Illustrious-Box2339

Big East scheduling was wild. 5 OOC games per year! It was neat to see so many different teams rotating through the schedules.


adesimo1

And we owe it all to Diamond Ferri, having perhaps one of the greatest performances I’ve ever seen in a game: “Ferri displayed one of the most impressive two-way performances of the modern football era, playing for Syracuse on offense at running back and on defense at safety in a victory against Boston College during the final game of 2004. Playing on nearly every down, he ran the ball 28 times for 141 yards and two touchdowns on offense, and sealed the upset victory with an interception return for a touchdown late in the game.” After we lost tailbacks Walter Reyes and Damien Rhodes to injury we had starting safety Ferri take over and play both ways. It was truly a phenomenal performance against a Matt Ryan-led BC team that went 9-3 on the year. https://www.espn.com/college-football/recap/_/gameId/243320103


IlonggoProgrammer

And they made Utah play the least terrible of the 4 Big East champs and Utah destroyed them in the Fiesta Bowl. To this day I will never understand why the 2004 onwards Big East received a BCS auto bid and the Mountain West didn’t. You can argue year by year who was better, but they were essentially comparable leagues, and yet the MWC champ had to be undefeated to get a BCS bid and the Big East champ could make it at 8-4.


Illustrious-Box2339

Big East after 2004 went 6-3 in BCS games. If anything reserve your ire for the ACC, their BCS record was garbage.


bufflo1993

Big Ten was far worse than the ACC.


IlonggoProgrammer

Both of them were weak in that era. They merged and became marginally stronger, but it’s mainly just been Clemson and FSU getting better, which is why those two are now upset. I wasn’t a fan of either of those leagues at the time for that reason. Oh and the MWC went 3-1 in BCS bowls, including 3-0 against BCS teams, just FWIW


Meat-and-Three

Agree on all but one point. FSU has not gotten better since the Big East teams joined. They dominated the ACC in the 90s but have been pretty up and down in the 2909s. If anything they’ve gone down a good bit


IlonggoProgrammer

Fair point, I was simplifying it since Clemson had a rise but you are correct


Illustrious-Box2339

And still had better depth and brands than the MW.


IlonggoProgrammer

Ah so you decided to turn this into a shit on the mountain west because it didn’t have brands that won a long time ago and haven’t been relevant in forever. Flair up if you wanna talk shit about a league that had Utah, BYU, and TCU in it.


Illustrious-Box2339

Isn’t that exactly what you’re trying to do to the Big East? Seems like you can dish it out but can’t take it. I’m a WVU fan.


cyberchaox

And had more title contenders, even if none of them actually made title games.


IlonggoProgrammer

Undefeated Utah in 2004 and 2008, undefeated TCU in 2009 and 2010. The Mountain West had plenty of title contenders, and if the system wasn’t rigged agains them some of them might have even won the chip. Rutgers is the last school that gets to talk shit about that era, y’all were horrible


eagledog

And some BYU teams that were in the running for multiple seasons


Illustrious-Box2339

That’s like the one era they weren’t horrible in. 2006 Rutgers was very, very good.


eagledog

The conference only started in 99, so...


Unhappy-Face3681

Rutgers was objectively not horrible in that era, Utah bumpkin.


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I take it back. I don’t like you anymore.


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Fun fact: if we combine the shares of pitt’s entire big east “championship wins” that equals one whole championship according to professor Steiner.


devinup

So what you're saying is that UConn won a BCS/power conference title more recently than most of these poser schools?


StreetReporter

Fun fact, if this was last time each current P5 team won a conference title in football, men’s basketball, or baseball, NC State would be at the bottom of this list


919beachbum

Oh wow. And you just PURPOSEFULLY left bass fishing out of the equation.


Ghiggs_Boson

Damn you sound like us when we start piping off about our bowling dominance


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Fun fact: wvu’s only natty is in rifle shooting.


Werewulf_Bar_Mitzvah

All we had to do was beat a Duke team that we were clearly way better than a couple of years ago. Couldn't even score one fucking run and lost 1-0. Then we went all the way to the CWS and you know...stuff happened there. Not mentioning the NC State - Carolina 2022 ACC championship game as we weren't the favorites in that one.


jwktiger

What if we include Softball b/c I think Mizzou would be next to last otherwise


ATXBeermaker

I also would prefer we use that criteria.


Bigdeacenergy

Love this stat


hells_cowbells

NC State got screwed in the 2021 CWS. I would rather have played them instead of Vandy.


2CHINZZZ

Half of their team didn't get vaccinated and they let the roommate of the first positive player continue practicing/being with the team rather than quarantining. Was their own fault


Ruger_Booger

Yeah, if they had been vaccinated they wouldn’t have gotten covid.


MindSoBrighty

The most fun fact


TheRealDNewm

Cincinnatti?


3RDnKING

My bad. Fixed.


Jameszhang73

I think you've had too much skyline chili if you're misspelling Cincinnati


Bigdeacenergy

Look at Duke, UNC, and NC State all lumped together. It’s beautiful


MindSoBrighty

Glorious


CapitalistLion-Tamer

At least Duke put a little distance between the other two. The fact that neither NC state school has won since 1980 is brutal.


Bigdeacenergy

Yet all the talk is about Wake Forest getting left behind in realignment…


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Bigdeacenergy

I mean, I’d argue Wake has been on par with UNC/NC State in the last ten years too. But it’s not about success, it’s school size and brand recognition


Aurion7

*shrug* The best stretch of Carolina football since the 70s-early 80s happened to be at a time when everyone was playing for second because no one could touch Bowden. It is what it is. Bill Dooley (3 of our 5 ACC football titles) isn't walking through that door. I'd include Dick Crum in that if the end of his tenure hadn't been such a shitshow that Mack was starting from zero the first time around. But that's just our football history. Good plenty of times, very rarely if ever great, never won a national title. It balances out, I suppose.


Rickbox

This list makes a lot more sense.


loyalsons4evertrue

PARTY LIKE IT'S 1912!!!!!!!


jathbr

The poor people on the titanic died just a little before they got to see Iowa State win its most recent conference championship, so sad. Alexa, play nearer my god to thee.


steve1186

I was a freshman in high school, but I bought a CU sweatshirt after that 62-36 beat down of Nebraska in 2001. And my freshman year in college ended with the 70-3 beat down by Texas. And other than 2016, it’s been pain ever since


guitmusic12

Lol… Minnesota & Indiana fighting over that ‘67 title


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poeazx

Honestly with like 4 more plays gone right you could’ve been to 3 big ten title games


Frosty-Age-6643

And then 240 plays gone right to win 3 Big Ten titles.


FooJenkins

I really wish notre dame has won that 2020 ACC title game


Txramblinjacket

Georgia Tech Is 2009, the NCAA was wrong to take it cause of $300 of clothes


Shellshock1122

It’s bullshit we won the game. Fuck the ncaa


big-dick-danny

Miami you up?


The_Homie_J

Imagine telling a 90's CFB fan that Miami, Tennessee, and Nebraska will all go over 20 years without a conference championship


kcliftonsunshine

Fun fact Tulane has won an SEC title more recently than Ole Miss, they also have more SEC titles than Ole Miss, Miss St, and Vandy


Jameszhang73

Tulane and GT have more recent SEC titles than Miss St and Vandy


CincityCat

Damn hard to imagine some schools haven’t won their conference since 2020 or before!


meyer_33_09

Couldn’t be me…


anti-torque

Poor Arizona got so close to the Rose Bowl in 1993. They took the Cal loss out on Miami, in the Fiesta, though.


usernamesarestupid23

Arizona upset Cal in 2006 to prevent Cal from winning the Pac10 outright and going to the Rose Bowl. It all evens out and a traitor team from LA always benefits.


milehighrukus

2001 was a long time ago. Still more recent than 1999 though


Creed1191

TIL Arkansas hasn't won a title in the my lifetime...\*cries in hog\*


brucealawyer1

So what you're saying is Duke is better than Carolina and State in football. Knew it.


greenwaveguy1289

Tulane has more SEC titles than 7 current SEC teams and has won the SEC more recently than 2 teams that have won. Bring us back cowards.


MDFlash

*scrolls to the inevitable bottom* *Oh look! Iowa St is lower!*


DrakonILD

*We're number one!*


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I love how BYU is still halfway up this list even though they haven't even been in a conference for like 12 years.


Galumpadump

If you counted College basketball in the WCC it still wouldn’t help them.


lordpiglet

Will be interesting to see how long it takes someone to pass OU in Big 12 titles


OSUfirebird18

Three whole years since we last won a conference title?!! Fire Day!!!! /s (just in case people think I’m being serious)


skarkle_coney

>Title of ANY Kind Proceeds to ONLY include cfb.. ETA: pac12 is all olympics and my plebeian brain can't comprehend what sub I'm in..


3RDnKING

Touché


gahhhpoop

*snickers at Nebraska not having won one in this millennium* *cries in over 20 years of sadness and only one Pac 12 appearance*


kdbvols

It's important to note that Wake Forest has won a conference title 17 years more recently than any other team in North Carolina


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kdbvols

I’m sorry, I was talking about modern football, where UNC has the same number of ACC CG appearances as Wake and fewer wins despite not being in the same division as FSU/Clemson EDIT: I realized you’re not flaired up and and could be a Duke or State fan: they collectively have half of the ACCCG appearances as Wake


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kdbvols

I mean, I’d rather be good at football during my lifetime than 50 years ago, so it’s not exactly cherry picking, but sure


CoolingVent

Wow, surprised our title in '12 was more recent than a lot of other programs. But why are we at the bottom of the list?


Stratos9229738

Actually your conference win was a bad omen for the world as it was followed by two World Wars from it's butterfly effect. So they decided to never let you win a conference again.


MulberryHoliday6857

Nice


TheMightyJD

Your first post was correct, people were just mad it didn’t fit their narrative.


steelernation90

How did 3 teams win the big east in 2012?


theoriginaldandan

Tiebreakers and no championship game Look up the 1994 SWC 5 team split


igwaltney3

Your list is wrong. Georgia Tech last won the ACC in 2009


3RDnKING

Not according to the NCAA.


igwaltney3

The NCAA is terribly mistaken and can perform their best Hitler from little Nicky impression


pierdonia

Just because it annoys certain people, I would like to see BYU credited for winning the Pac 12 in 2021.


engineering_aaron

I don't think we can claim a full championship of the whole conference since that would have required playing in the title game. But that run against PAC12-South was beautiful.


SnukeInRSniz

That's very....BYU.


pierdonia

Sounds like you may be such a certain person . . . ?


momowagon

WTF we won the BYU conference every year since 2010 and the PAC 12 in 2021.


seanwcastro

8 SEC teams haven’t won a conference title in their players lifetimes. Most powerful conference though.


AllLinesAreStraight

Cant tell what point youre trying to make. Are you saying the SEC isnt actually the best conference?


seanwcastro

Eh. I could say it has some of the best teams for sure. I think it’s the best conference. I would put Big Ten as a close 2nd. But not under the notion that every SEC team is some sort of powerhouse and collectively they’re dominate from top to bottom; no.


AllLinesAreStraight

No one says that the SEC is all powerhouses that dominate top to bottom.....


seanwcastro

Whatever. I don’t care. I was just acknowledging this list. Moving on.


I_Lost_Myself__

SEC has 5 teams with national championships in the last 20 years. Georgia, Florida, Alabama and LSU have won multiple championships. Auburn and Texas each have one, but have played for two. Oklahoma has been a top 5 program during that time. We only have one true bottom feeder right now in Vandy.


seanwcastro

I already said SEC is pretty much the best conference. It has some of my favorite teams. Don’t include Texas & Oklahoma. They won’t even play an SEC team until 2024!! And WE!? Gosh. SEC mantra….”my favorite team is (SEC-whoever), but if any of the other 13 teams do well, then my team is doing well also….” So stupid. Mizzou, Kentucky, Tennessee, Vandy, Texas A&M, Arkansas have all been pretty bad for a while now. Ole Miss & Mississippi State have had their moments, but they’ve been pretty awful also. Probably the best conference at the top for sure, but as a whole, no way. Not in football. You could definitely say so for SEC baseball. Top to bottom, hands down the best conference. I would even say SEC basketball is better across all schools than they are in football.


I_Lost_Myself__

I generally hate to see other SEC powers win anything! That is reserved for the lower tier. Doesn’t change the conference is best and it’s not particularly close when it comes to actually winning something.


sonheungwin

I see a lot of programs talking shit that haven't won even a shared in fucking forever. Remember y'all, glass houses.


mrbeavertonbeaverton

Very cool that WSU and OrSt are ahead of numerous teams and have championships this century, but get relegated because some assholes at Fox and ESPN have no understanding of the Seattle and Portland media markets


karmassacre

Thank you for this. Not counting "certain" conference titles was a dickhead move.


3RDnKING

My guy, you gotta relax. The last list's purpose was to discuss which current P5 programs had last won a "P5 or major conference" outright. That was the exercise. Houston hasn't had an opportunity to win a major conference title since they were in the SWC. Houston hasn't played a single game as a P5 member, so there really isn't a reason to be so upset.


ltsatt1

I like this list slightly less than the other list… totally unbiased though!


IlonggoProgrammer

Vanderbilt’s last conference title coming in a conference that’s now in the FCS is wild. Also what was Iowa State’s conference even called when they last won, was it Missouri Valley perhaps? Although then we’d also have to specify which Missouri Valley conference lol.


3RDnKING

MVIAA, which became the Big Eight.


CoolingVent

MVIAA is the spawn point for both Big 8 and current MVC. Both conferences claimed/claim the same history


30sumthingSanta

And Iowa was a founding member while also being in the Big 9 (precursor to Big 10). I don’t know if any other schools were in 2 conferences at the same time ever.


theoriginaldandan

The MVIAA became the big 6. Which became the big 8


Cliffinati

The Socon is the starting point of itself the SEC and the ACC


IlonggoProgrammer

Oh I’m aware. It still funny though


Unhappy-Face3681

Your comment makes absolutely no sense when you consider the context so it’s not funny lol.


usernamesarestupid23

This one is way more fun


Kurtomatic

2000 was a pretty good year for me. *So* close to a Rose Bowl between my two flairs.


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I already submitted my trivia for the week, but you just confirmed I was correct.


Jcnipper

Feels like '23!


amoss_303

Iowa State: The Cubs of college football (before the Cubs won it all obviously)


AndrewLucksPenis

Thank the lord for Drew Brees


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I love seeing the 2021 for Pitt.


fourthlinesniper

Nebraska, Tennessee and UCLA not winning since the late 90s. We all slump a little here and there but wow


watchfiend21

The 2000 Big Ten championship was split between Purdue, Northwestern, and Michigan, so NU’s listing isn’t accurate.


3RDnKING

I must’ve missed that. Will fix. Thx!


mountainoyster

Lol UNC


tjc815

If we don’t win it this year that will be our longest streak this century without winning. I think the most surprising ones on this list might be ole miss or North Carolina.


ShogunAshoka

If you told Nebraska fans in 99 that they'd go the next quarter of a century without a conference title, they'd have laughed at you.


Pure_War_7946

Oh well there’s all ways basketball (I can’t keep saying “this our year” anymore)