Historical football power rankings site

[The Old School JPS]

I came across this site and thought it was fun and interesting: an online list of power rankings for college football, going waaaaaay back.

Like any such measure it is open to debate, but still fun to peruse.

Some fun ones from it:

1984
18 West Virginia Eastern Independent
19 Florida State Southern Independent
20 Kentucky SEC
21 Tennessee SEC
22 Miami (Florida) Southern Independent
23 Arkansas SWC
24 Iowa Big Ten
25 Air Force WAC
26 Georgia SEC
27 Texas SWC
28 Notre Dame Eastern Independent
29 UCLA Pac 10
30 Clemson ACC

1977
1 Notre Dame
2 Alabama
3 Texas
4 Penn State
5 Arkansas
6 Kentucky
7 Pittsburgh
8 Michigan
9 Oklahoma
10 Florida State
11 Ohio State
12 Nebraska
13 Southern California

(How can these power rankings, or the final 1977 AP poll, rank Penn State ahead of Kentucky, when Kentucky went on the road to Penn State and won?)

1976
19 Kentucky

1965
15 Kentucky

(Back then the AP poll only included 10 teams, not 20)

1953
11 Kentucky (the only higher ranked SEC team was Georgia Tech at #8)

1952
1 Georgia Tech SEC
2 Southern California PCC
3 Michigan State Eastern Independent
4 UCLA PCC
5 Oklahoma Big 7
6 Duke Southern
7 Notre Dame Eastern Independent
8 Alabama SEC
9 Mississippi SEC
10 Texas SWC
11 Tennessee SEC
12 Maryland Eastern Independent
13 Florida SEC

1951
1 Georgia Tech SEC
2 Maryland Southern
3 Illinois Western
4 Tennessee SEC
5 Michigan State Eastern Independent
6 Baylor SWC
7 Wisconsin Western
8 Kentucky SEC
9 Oklahoma Big 7
10 California PCC

1950
1 Tennessee 11-1-0 SEC
2 Wyoming 10-0-0 Skyline
3 Kentucky 11-1-0 SEC
4 Oklahoma 10-1-0 Big 7
5 Texas 9-2-0 SWC
6 California 9-1-1 PCC
7 Clemson 9-0-1 Southern
8 Army 8-1-0 Northeast Independent
9 Alabama 9-2-0 SEC
10 Illinois 7-2-0 Western

1949
12 Kentucky

1948
1 Michigan Western
2 North Carolina Southern
3 Oklahoma Big 7
4 Southern Methodist SWC
5 Notre Dame Independent
6 Tulane SEC
7 Mississippi SEC
8 Clemson Southern
9 California PCC
10 Vanderbilt SEC
11 Northwestern Western
12 Georgia SEC

1947
15 Southern California
16 Kentucky
17 Arkansas
18 Army
19 Oklahoma

1929
17 Kentucky
18 Dartmouth
19 Washington State
20 Vanderbilt
21 Texas

1924
1 Notre Dame
2 Alabama
3 Georgia
4 Yale
5 West Virginia
6 California
7 Stanford
8 Centre
9 Florida
10 Dartmouth
11 Tulane
12 Southern California
. . .
59 Kentucky

1923
4 Colorado
5 Texas
6 Michigan
7 Centre
8 Southern Methodist
9 Virginia Military Institute
10 Notre Dame
. . .
56 Kentucky

1922
1 Vanderbilt
2 Princeton
3 California
4 West Virginia
5 North Carolina
6 Centre
7 Army
8 Virginia Tech
9 Notre Dame
10 Auburn
. . .
31 Kentucky

1921
1 Vanderbilt
2 Centre
. . .
44 Kentucky

1920
11 Notre Dame
12 Auburn
13 Centre
14 Ohio State
15 Texas A&M
. . .
68 Kentucky

1919
1 Texas A&M SWC
2 Auburn South/West Independent
3 Alabama South/West Independent
4 Washington & Lee Mid-Atlantic Independent
5 Georgia Tech South/West Independent
6 Penn State Eastern Independent
7 Centre South/West Independent
. . .
71 Kentucky

Here's the URL:

http://www.jhowell.net/cf/cfindex.htm

[Will Lavender]

Wow. What a fascinating site.

And what a powerhouse Centre used to be. C 6 H 0 baby! :icon_mrgreen:

There's a great scene in The Praying Colonels where the running back from Somerset (can't remember his name, but I do remember that he was in the Job Corps and they recruited him pretty literally off the street) got hurt, and they rushed out on the field and poured whiskey on the wound. He went right back in the next play. :icon_mrgreen: