All-Time Winning Percentage

[twig21]

I don't know if anyone has done the math on this, kind of silly but fun.
All time wins per capita. We blow Michigan away. ND with 876 wins and a undergrad enrollment of 8400 has a .10 win per student. Michigan with 911 wins and a undergrad enrollment of 27,000 has a paltry .03 win per student. So to me we are 66% better than the skunk bears all time .

 

[returnofthemack]

Does anybody know what ND and michigan's records could be respectively this year for us to still retain the all-time winning %?

 

[BGIF]

Does anybody know what ND and michigan's records could be respectively this year for us to still retain the all-time winning %?

Currently we've got about a game and a half edge. So, if we finish with the same record we retain the lead. They need a two game edge to retake it.

 

[Old Man Mike]

Michigan will at best lose only three games --- if so then we would have to lose five. Michigan will probably lose at least one more than that, but the B1G really stinks this year.

 

[ulukinatme]

We're now officially at #2 for most wins right now too. We were tied with Texas and Yale going into the season. Texas has lost 2 games already, and Yale's season doesn't start until this weekend..plus they only have 10 games.

 

[Booslum31]

We're now officially at #2 for most wins right now too. We were tied with Texas and Yale going into the season. Texas has lost 2 games already, and Yale's season doesn't start until this weekend..plus they only have 10 games.

Yeah...and if Hoke stays at UofM for five more years we can take the number one spot for total wins. Anyway, I didn't realize that Yale was in the mix. They have certainly been around longer than ND but I didn't think they were that good thru the years.

 

[Bogtrotter07]

Yeah...and if Hoke stays at UofM for five more years we can take the number one spot for total wins. Anyway, I didn't realize that Yale was in the mix. They have certainly been around longer than ND but I didn't think they were that good thru the years.

Which brings up one of my points. These claims many schools make are bogus. Bama championships! Texas A&M won an outright natty, in what parallel universe? Just like Michigan claims 11. One in '48. A year ND was undefeated. And beat SC at the year end. ND was voted the AP NC and others including the MacArthur Cup, as was custom in that era. National Champs were crowned before the bowls to increase the draw. This year Detroit sportswriters got together the press corps after the bowl games and held a vote for Michigan, because they beat SC by more than ND did a month and a half earlier. This is one Michigan claims, still. And six or seven are from before the First World War! If you include those, and follow that logic, Princeton is still king, and has 27 Nattys, including one for a season in which they played a total of two games.

But what the hay!

 

[enrico514]

Anyone know a good source for acceptable and bogus NCs ? I'd be curious to see if ND could add a couple more using these schemes or what would be UM and Alabama's true count using ND's methodology.

 

[BGIF]

Which brings up one of my points. These claims many schools make are bogus. Bama championships! Texas A&M won an outright natty, in what parallel universe? Just like Michigan claims 11. One in '48. A year ND was undefeated. And beat SC at the year end. ND was voted the AP NC and others including the MacArthur Cup, as was custom in that era.

National Champs were crowned before the bowls to increase the draw

. This year Detroit sportswriters got together the press corps after the bowl games and held a vote for Michigan, because they beat SC by more than ND did a month and a half earlier. This is one Michigan claims, still. And six or seven are from before the First World War! If you include those, and follow that logic, Princeton is still king, and has 27 Nattys, including one for a season in which they played a total of two games.

But what the hay!

National Champions were crowned before the bowls because the season had ended. Bowl games were rightfully viewed as exhibition games with one team local (regional) and the other needing hotel rooms. Chambers of Commerce created the bowls to stimulate the local economy not to forge champions in the crucible of contest.

For most of 4 decades ND eschewed the bowl scene as an academic distraction. Parseghian changed that attitude when he made bowl game participation a condition of his employment. The final polls now included the bowl games and Ara realized ND would forfeit consideration if they did not participate in the bowls.

 

[BGIF]

Anyone know a good source for acceptable and bogus NCs ? I'd be curious to see if ND could add a couple more using these schemes or what would be UM and Alabama's true count using ND's methodology.

The AP Poll became the standard in 1936.

Here a discussion on NCs and a list of what each school claims:

National Championship Assessment

 

[Booslum31]

Wow! Princeton (20) NC's before 1900. Pretty crazy!

 

[BGIF]

Winningest Percentage as of 9/26/14

Winningest Percentage as of 9/26/14

Team Years W L T Pct.
1. ND 126 877 305 42 .7337
2. UM 135 912 323 36 .7317
3. BS  47 399 154 2 .7207 (1996) 
4. OU 120 846 312 53 .7205
5. OSU 125 851 319 53 .7175
6. AL 120 842 323 43 .7148
7. UTx 122 876 341 33 .7140
8. NE 125 869 357 40 .7022
9. USC# 122 798 324 54 .7015
10. UTn 118 806 362 53 .6818

 

[palinurus]

Team Years W L T Pct.
1. ND 126 877 305 42 .7337
2. UM 135 912 323 36 .7317
3. BS  47 399 154 2 .7207 (1996) 
4. OU 120 846 312 53 .7205
5. OSU 125 851 319 53 .7175
6. AL 120 842 323 43 .7148
7. UTx 122 876 341 33 .7140
8. NE 125 869 357 40 .7022
9. USC# 122 798 324 54 .7015
10. UTn 118 806 362 53 .6818

We're up 18 in the loss column! Or maybe 19 now.

 

[BGIF]

We're up 18 in the loss column! Or maybe 19 now.

As of now.

 

[ulukinatme]

I just had to fix the all time winning percentage on the Wiki again...some asshat in Michigan keeps putting them at #1 because Michigan, ND, and Grand Valley State all are at .733 as of the start of the season. However, that's only after rounding, so I've listed the percentage out to 4 decimals...now Michigan is at #3 all time. Hopefully that prevents future edits.

List of NCAA football teams by wins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Fuck Michigan.

 

[Irish Insanity]

I just had to fix the all time winning percentage on the Wiki again...some asshat in Michigan keeps putting them at #1 because Michigan, ND, and Grand Valley State all are at .733 as of the start of the season. However, that's only after rounding, so I've listed the percentage out to 4 decimals...now Michigan is at #3 all time. Hopefully that prevents future edits.

List of NCAA football teams by wins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Fuck Michigan.

Rather disappointed you didn't change their name to Fuck Michigan

 

[ulukinatme]

I lament that we held that all time winning percentage role for so long and ever gave it up to those a-holes. I hope they continue to lose and lose so we don't have to give it up to them again.

 

[ulukinatme]

Rather disappointed you didn't change their name to Fuck Michigan

I was tempted...so tempted...but I rarely make changes in Wikipedia. I was afraid such an edit may wipe out my good deed of correcting their bullshit.

 

[BGIF]

The win over Stanford makes ND's record 879-305-42, 0.7340946166, the winningest percentage in college football history.

#2 UM's record after the RU loss is 912-325-36, 0.7305577376.

#1 ND 0.734
#2 UM 0.730


ulukinatme, would you update the Wiki file accordingly.

 

[Irish YJ]

A CIO I work with (he's my client from one of the larger national QSRs) is a scUM fan. I've been taking crap from him for a few years in a friendly rival way. This year is just glorious but it really sucks I can't pound him about the dumpster fire that is Michigan.

 

[johnnycando]

That's the difference: you have class.

UM fans honestly, I've noticed, lack this character attribute through selective breeding processes.

 

[Irish YJ]

That's the difference: you have class.

UM fans honestly, I've noticed, lack this character attribute through selective breeding processes.

Incorrect my friend. LMAO... I've got about $4M in RFPs and other business on the table. If not for that, I'd be sending him daily dumpster emails

Actually, I wouldn't, but I would give him a little hell. He's pretty classy for a scUM fan. Engineering type, pretty quiet, except for a little pigskin talk.

 

[irish1958]

That's the difference: you have class.

UM fans honestly, I've noticed, lack this character attribute through selective breeding processes.

I believe you mean: "selective inbreeding processes."

 

[Buster Bluth]

The win over Stanford makes ND's record 879-305-42, 0.7340946166, the winningest percentage in college football history.

#2 UM's record after the RU loss is 912-325-36, 0.7305577376.

#1 ND 0.734
#2 UM 0.730


ulukinatme, would you update the Wiki file accordingly.

And considering Michigan's remaining schedule, there'll be some distance between Notre Dame and Michigan.

vs Penn State
BYE
at Michigan State
vs Indiana
at Northwestern
BYE
vs Maryland
at Ohio State

 

[Irish YJ]

And considering Michigan's remaining schedule, there'll be some distance between Notre Dame and Michigan.

vs Penn State
BYE
at Michigan State
vs Indiana
at Northwestern
BYE
vs Maryland
at Ohio State

I hope IU jailsexes UM

 

[gkIrish]

And considering Michigan's remaining schedule, there'll be some distance between Notre Dame and Michigan.

vs Penn State
BYE
at Michigan State
vs Indiana
at Northwestern
BYE
vs Maryland
at Ohio State

I would be shocked if they won more than 1 game the rest of the way. There's a better chance they win 0 than 3.

 

[Ultimate Penn St. Hater]

I will be rooting for the skunkbears next week.

 

[ulukinatme]

The win over Stanford makes ND's record 879-305-42, 0.7340946166, the winningest percentage in college football history.

#2 UM's record after the RU loss is 912-325-36, 0.7305577376.

#1 ND 0.734
#2 UM 0.730


ulukinatme, would you update the Wiki file accordingly.

I would, but I'm somewhat lazy. The rankings were last updated at the beginning of the season, so I'd have to go through and update all the teams listed there if I was to do that. I was mostly concerned with keeping Michigan from any silly hijinks since some scUMbag kept listing the Wolverines as #1 and us as #3 after GVS since we were all "tied" with .733 winning percentage at the time (Even though ours was higher prior to rounding). Maybe after next week when everyone has 6 games played I'll update it.

 

[johnnycando]

You guys realize this will all go to the wayside once ND vacates wins, right?

 

[ulukinatme]

Sucks that we're still 32 wins short of overtaking Michigan in the most wins column, but then again I think at least 32 of their wins came against a bunch of high schools in the 1800s.