…Indiana has won 1 championship in 75 years…(in 1967). The only blue bloods in the BIG are Ohio State and Michigan. They have won consistently for over a 100 years.
As for Tech, the injury situation has put them in a very difficult spot, but we’ll see.
Another team to keep an eye on is Georgia Tech. They really havent had a great team since 1990, but this team looks really good. As for Vandy, lets see if they can go to Austin and beat Texas. Texas A&M has a great team, too. They can go 12-0 this year and go a long way in the playoffs.
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Indiana
Vanderbilt
Georgia Tech
Texas A&M
Texas Tech
Are definitely NOT your class of title contenders over the last 25 years
Tech and Indiana aren’t doing anything they couldn’t have done before. The only thing new is that cash payments are going to players instead of facilities. Besides that, Oregon, Oklahoma State, Memphis, and several others I’m sure I’m missing all turned their previously-irrelevant football programs around pre-NIL and pre-playoff by having a multibillionaire booster sign blank checks until all their problems went away. It’s just going directly to players now instead of facilities and stadia.
A&M doesn’t belong in that group. They suffer largely the same problems UT has had over the last couple decades where they have all the access to anything they would need, but their boosters are a roadblock.
Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt might very well be on linsanity runs with quarterbacks that fell into their lap. Give it a couple of years before you pronounce them the new blueprint.
A&M is #3 in the AP poll and just destroyed LSU…i’d say they belong this year
Oh what a glorious day that would be! Vanderbilt beating Manning and the mighty Horns.
A&M has always had the resources and access to compete. It’s like talking about how a rise from USC or Nebraska or Florida would mean a new level of parity and access in the sport. A&M has always had access, they were just incompetent at the managerial level.
A&M has never made the 4 team or 12 team playoff.
Do they even have a NY6 bowl win on their resume?
Hardly a dominant post season squad.
Until two years ago that was true of Texas. Guess they belong on your list, too. Same with Michigan and Notre Dame.
Glad the poor little longhorns finally have a fighting chance to compete in this new, equitable system with unprecedented access.
Texas won in 2005 and was in the Championship again since then and have been in the final four the last 2 seasons.
That’s 4 times in the last 20 years…not the same as these other schools
Until 2023 they hadn’t made the four-team playoff or the twelve-team playoff.
Texas A&M is just the Penn State to UT and OU’s Michigan and Ohio State; they have all of the necessary resources and access to win titles, and have for decades. They just haven’t managed to put it together to actually win a national title in quite a long time.
I don’t know what that means. The “National Championship” while not a true national championship always carried weight and shows over time with the attention and tv money the various teams got. Sure it was disputed, and often easy for fans who’s teams weren’t the national champions to dismiss it as meaningless but it always had meaning.
It’s all about the money so no one is leaving the SEC or Big 10 voluntarily…