• 34 FSU 14 UVa
  • 48 UVa 7 VMI
  • 17 #16 USC 14 UVa
  • 34 UVa 13 Rich
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WWWR: Outside Looking In

This is the inaugural week of this entertaining little bit where each week or so, I’ll put up some sort of Top 10 I feel to be interesting (or at the very least, entertaining).  And as a treat to you readers out there, this first one will have 50% more for free!  Woo!

Have you ever sat on a Saturday watching college football highlights wondering what good teams have never won a title?  It happens regularly to me.  Last week, I posed the question to a friend of mine and we couldn’t come up with any…all the major teams we could think of have at least won one or been close enough to a title to confuse us and start arguments.  Luckily, I happened upon a database on the internet (what an invention…someone give Al Gore a pat on the back) that had all college football winning percentages and such going back to 1869.  1869!  That’s like right after the Civil War…and you probably couldn’t understand Lou Holtz then either.

Anyway, me being the dork with no life I am, I brought up the rankings of teams by winning percentage, cross referenced it with a list of national champions, and viola!  Here you have The Top 15 Winningest BCS Schools without a National Title!

Rank Team Win % Wins Losses Games
15 Virginia 0.5339 606 526 1180
14 Missouri 0.5396 594 503 1149
13 Purdue 0.5398 566 478 1094
12 Oregon 0.5427 549 459 1055
11 Navy 0.5478 624 510 1192
10 Ole Miss 0.5627 597 460 1092
9 Wisconsin 0.5634 596 456 1105
8 N. Carolina 0.5658 631 478 1163
7 Arizona 0.5708 536 399 968
6 Boston Col. 0.5884 607 419 1063
5 South. Miss. 0.5943 517 349 891
4 Arkansas 0.5947 647 435 1121
3 W. Virginia 0.5964 664 442 1151
2 VA Tech 0.6018 648 421 1115
1 Arizona St. 0.6177 536 327 888

Any comments or suggestions for rankings you’d like to see, comment below!

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