The AP’s Top 25 Teams in History

I posted earlier that a similar poll in the late 90s had them at number 11. That seems pretty high considering only one national championship, but it was a similar AP poll, and UCLA finished ranked in the AP quite often in the 20th century.

That's the only thing that's keeping them afloat in polls like this today. Because, like you said, the past 25 years have been shit, with the exception of about a half dozen seasons.

Unfortunately, don't expect UCLA to finish as a ranked team for quite some time, given their move to the B1G. Just too tough of a schedule moving forward.

If we exclude all the NFL shit, which we probably should, they're not. Probably #3. Maybe.

Absolutely

agree, who gives a crap about NFL stuff. sc

it's spelled "donors".....not "donars"......proof of your UOregon education

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speling nasis suk. sc

Money is more a part of the college football landscape since the BCS came into being (read "TV ratings") than ever before. Lucky for us quacks, that dovetailed with Phil's growing interest in helping to make Oregon a football power. You Trojans need to get all of your thousands of multi-million dollar donors, you know you have them, to start contributing more maybe.

Not our problem that your alumni don't care enough about USC football collectively or don't see how the landscape has changed in the past 2+ decades, and how they can no longer sit on the sidelines to have championships magically appear. This is 2024, not 1974.

Your current NIL debacle at USC is quite telling of the current atmosphere there with your donors....

Dude. The World has always been built on slave labor. It won’t stop until the 2nd coming.

Before the 1990s, Oregon wasn't.

I'll give you that.

UCLA and KAL's problem is the State of California owns them....and steals money from them.

Correction: No college or pro team from ANYWHERE wants to play in freezing weather EVER.

That doesn't help, but the AD isn't entirely dependent on state money or even UC money. Donors play a huge part, and neither UCLA nor KAL really measure up.

And, as we've recently seen, the Regents can hold either program hostage in other ways.

They're talking about all-time, and the AP polls go back to about 1936. At the turn of the century, a similar poll had UCLA at #11. Based on how well the team did overall (albeit only one national title) in the last half of the 20th century, that made some sense, and it should be noted that the ten teams ahead of them at the time were all regular national title contenders, with multiple titles.

Obviously the 21st century has not been kind to UCLA, but this poll does include a lot of years in which you were either unborn or unaware that UCLA football used to be very competitive.

The gaps used to be much farther apart. But Stanford and Utah have seriously closed the gap. Oregon, too, because UCLA hardly ever beats them anymore.

True. For some reason, UW has really struggled against UCLA for the past 30 years. The head to head was much closer back then.

But that 2022 game was more of the 2nd Qtr game. I have never, ever seen such a bad quarter of football in my life. Like a Jr High team running around just blowing everything. What was it...0-21 just in the 2nd qtr? UW came back late, but too late losing by 8 points.

DTR had a really good game, while Penix was off at times. It happens.

If UW had played UCLA in 2023, the Huskies would have absolutely rolled. Bad timing.