From clydeqprs@usa.net Mon Jan 17 04:36:20 2000

         			QPRS

TOP  TWENTY  AMERICAN  COLLEGE  FOOTBALL  PROGRAMS  SINCE  1940
	    (Cumulative Over 59 Years - 1940-1999)

				Decade
Rank College	40's	50's	60's	70's	80's	90's	Total

1.  Michigan	13.4	 4.8	 4.6	15.4	11.4	10.4	60.0
2.  Oklahoma     5.5	17.8	 6.1	16.5	10.6	 1.8	58.3
3.  Nebraska     1.3	 0.3	 8.6	14.9	16.4	15.0	56.5
4.  Alabama      6.0	 2.9	14.2	15.8	 7.9	 7.9	54.7
5.  Ohio State   6.4	 8.5	 8.1	13.0	 6.7	 9.0	51.7
6.  Notre Dame	14.2	 8.6	 7.3	 9.9	 5.0	 6.2	51.2
7.  Texas	11.5	 6.0	11.5	12.1	 4.8	 3.8	49.7
8.  Southern Cal 2.5	 6.3	11.2	13.0	 8.2	 1.8	43.0
    Tennessee	 7.3	 8.1	 5.8	 4.5	 4.4	12.9	43.0
10. Penn State	 1.1  	   -	 4.5	 8.6	 7.2	11.5	32.9
11. UCLA	 2.4	 7.8	 6.2	 4.1	 7.7	 3.0	31.2
12. Auburn         -	 7.1	 4.3	 5.6	 9.9	 3.5	30.4
13. Florida        -	 1.7	 6.6	 2.4	 4.9	14.1	29.7
14. Georgia	 7.6	 1.6	 5.2	 3.4	 9.2	 2.6	29.6
15. Florida State  -	   -	 2.6	 1.6	 7.1	17.7	29.0
16. Georgia Tech 6.2	10.9	 5.6	 1.1	 1.2	 3.4	28.4
17. Miami	 0.9	 3.5	 2.3	   -	11.8	 8.9	27.4
18. Louisiana St.3.2	 3.7	 9.4	 4.7	  3.9	 1.5	26.4
19. Arkansas       -	 2.3	 9.5	 7.3	 5.1	   -	24.2
20. Mississippi	 3.1	 9.7	 8.2	 0.7	   -	 0.4	22.1

NOTE: Here's how the "grades" are computed - Teams receive points in
accordance with their QPRS Top 20 rankings each year as follows:  1st Place 
(Nat'l Champ) - 20 pts., 2nd Place - 19 pts., 3rd Place - 18 pts., 4th Place -
17 pts.,...etc, through 20th Place - 1 pt.   Teams which do not make the Top
20 in any given year get Zero points for that year.   Add each Team's total
points for each decade and divide by ten (10 years in a decade!) to determine
the average for that decade.

The above table rewards consistency over the long haul, a bit like a long-term
growth fund in the stock market - the investor who placed his $1 on the
Michigan program in 1940 would have gotten the best return on his dollar by
1999! 

(c) Jan 2000 by Clyde P. Berryman