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Who has the most national championships in college football?

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Emily Ross

Published Jan 06, 2026

1. Yale — 18. Yale football has one of the most impressive resumes in the sport, with two of the first three Heisman winners, 100 All-Americans, 28 Hall of Fame inductees, and 18 national championships recognized by the NCAA — the most all time.

How many national championships has Alabama won?

How many National Championships has Alabama won? In the school's history, the Tide have hoisted college football's national trophy 15 times. Their first title came back in 1925 under head coach Wallace Wade.

Who has won the second most national championships in college football?

University of Notre Dame, 13

The Fighting Irish won nine championships in the poll era, making them the second-most team with championship titles out of all teams. Coach Frank Leahy helped the team win four of those titles, and he also won two titles as a player for Notre Dame, under the prominent coach Knute Rockne.

Who is the winningest team in college football?

Measured in total wins, the Michigan Wolverines lead all other football programs across all divisions with 976 wins.

Who was the greatest college football player of all time?

Tommie Frazier, QB, Nebraska

Frazier is considered by many to be the greatest college football player of all time, leading Nebraska to two straight national championships in 1994 and 1995—the only quarterback to do so since the 1950s.

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Who is the winningest coach in college football?

In overall career wins, the all-time leader is John Gagliardi with 489 wins, mostly at the NCAA Division III level. Gagliardi began his head coaching career at Carroll in Helena, Montana in 1949 and moved in 1953 to Saint John's in Collegeville, Minnesota, where he served until retiring after the 2012 season.

Which college conference has the most national championships in all sports?

This year's championships add to an impressive tradition for the Pac-12. With 469 total titles, Conference teams have, by far, claimed the most national championships in the country all-time, over 200 more than the next closest league (Big Ten - 266).

Has Ohio State ever beat Alabama?

That's according to Joshua Perry, a linebacker on the Ohio State team that defeated Alabama 42-35 in the Sugar Bowl on Jan. 1, 2015.

What's an unclaimed national title?

Unclaimed National Championships are teams that have been named a National Champion by the various polls and so forth throughout the history of college football but the school itself does not claim it in the schools record book.

What school has most Heisman Trophy winners?

Since 1935, the Heisman Trophy has been awarded to college football's most outstanding player. Ohio State, Oklahoma and Notre Dame are tied for the most recipients by a single program with seven each. In other words, those three programs account for nearly 25 percent of all winners.

How many times has Clemson won the national championship?

In its athletic history, Clemson has won six national championships across three sports, with all of those titles coming from men's teams in the past 40 years. The 2016 championship marked the second title in the football program's history, with the first coming in 1981.

What SEC teams have never won a national championship?

Nine of the 14 SEC programs claim at least one national championship, and the exceptions are Mississippi State, Missouri, Texas A&M and Vanderbilt.

Who is the winningest QB in college football history?

Moore played college football at Boise State, where he set the FBS record for quarterback wins.

Who has the most losses in college football?

Northwestern Wildcats

Northwestern has an all-time record of 489-632-44, which is one of the worst in the history of college football. In fact, they have the most losses in college football history, one ahead of Indiana, who may pass them in 2012. The Wildcats first started playing football in 1876.

Does anyone have 2 Heismans?

Ohio State's Archie Griffin is the only two-time winner of the trophy, taking home the award as a junior and senior in 1974 and 1975.

Is Joe Burrow the best college QB ever?

Burrow passed for 5,671 yards and 60 TDs to lead LSU to a national championship that season, which ranked No. 25 on Sporting News' 50 greatest seasons in sports history. That is the best season by a college football quarterback.

Who is the most famous college football team?

College football teams with the most national championships

  • Minnesota — 6. Championships: 1934, 1935, 1936, 1940, 1941, 1960. ...
  • Oklahoma — 7.
  • Notre Dame — 13.
  • Princeton — 15. Championships: 1869, 1870, 1872, 1873, 1878, 1879, 1880, 1885, 1889, 1893, 1896, 1903, 1906, 1911, 1922. ...
  • Alabama — 16. ...
  • Yale — 18.

Who has the best college football stadium?

1. Ohio Stadium, Ohio State Buckeyes. The Horseshoe in Columbus is an absolutely unmistakable piece of architecture, and the Ohio State Buckeyes rarely disappoint the fans who pack Ohio Stadium to the brim, beyond its listed capacity of 104,944.

Has any college football team gone undefeated and won the national championship?

1974 Oklahoma Sooners: Barry Switzer's '74 team was in the middle of an era of dominance in which the Sooners lost just three games in five years. The '74 team brought home Switzer's first national championship. 1961 Alabama Crimson Tide: Winning a national championship under head coach Bear Bryant is tough to ignore.