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The '''Poling System''' was a mathematical rating system used to select [[College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS|college football national championship]] teams from 1924 to 1984. While there was no official method for naming a national championship in the sport during the system's existence, it is considered to have been a "National Champion Major Selector" by the [[National Collegiate Athletic Association]].<ref>''Official 2007 NCAA Division I Football Record Book'', p. 73, National Collegiate Athletic Association, 2007.</ref> The system was developed by Richard Poling, a native of [[Mansfield, Ohio]] who had played [[college football]] at [[Ohio Wesleyan University]]. The Poling System named contemporary champions from 1935 to 1984 and retroactively named champions from 1924 to 1934. Its selections were published in the ''Football Review Supplement'' and several newspapers.<ref name=cbs>[http://www.cbssports.com/u/ce/feature/0,1518,3708818_56,00.html Knute Rockne's Record at Notre Dame], CBS Sports, retrieved October 24, 2010.</ref>
The '''Poling System''' was a mathematical rating system used to rank [[college football]] teams.<ref name=NCAA/> Its selections were published in the ''Football Review Supplement'' and several newspapers.<ref name=NCAA/> The system was developed by '''Richard R. Poling''', a native of [[Mansfield, Ohio]] who had played [[college football]] at [[Ohio Wesleyan University]].

The Poling System is considered by the [[NCAA]] to have been a "major selector" of [[College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS|national championships]] for the years 1935–1984.<ref name=NCAA>{{cite web |url=http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2017/FBS.pdf |title=National Poll Rankings |author=National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) |year=2017|work=NCAA Division I FBS Football Records |publisher=NCAA |pages=108–109, 111–114 |accessdate=December 7, 2017 |quote=Poling System (1935-84), a mathematical rating system for college football teams developed by Richard Poling from Mansfield, Ohio, a former football player at Ohio Wesleyan. Poling’s football ratings were published annually in the Football Review Supplement and in various newspapers. Predated national champions from 1924 to 1934.}}</ref>{{rp|108}}

==Champions==
The Poling System named contemporary champions from 1935 to 1984 and retroactively named champions from 1924 to 1934.<ref name=NCAA />{{rp|108–109,111–114,120}}

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Season || Champion(s) || Record || Coach
|-
| colspan=4 {{rh2|align=center}} | Retrospective selections
|-
| [[1924 college football season|1924]] || [[1924 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team|Notre Dame]] || 10–0 || [[Knute Rockne]]
|-
| [[1925 college football season|1925]] || [[1925 Alabama Crimson Tide football team|Alabama]] || 10–0 || [[Wallace William Wade|Wallace Wade]]
|-
| [[1926 college football season|1926]] || [[1926 Alabama Crimson Tide football team|Alabama]] || 9–0–1 || [[Wallace William Wade|Wallace Wade]]
|-
| [[1927 college football season|1927]] || [[1927 Georgia Bulldogs football team|Georgia]] || 9–1 || [[George Cecil Woodruff]]
|-
| [[1928 college football season|1928]] || [[1928 Georgia Tech Golden Tornado football team|Georgia Tech]] || 10–0 || [[William Alexander (coach)|William Alexander]]
|-
| [[1929 college football season|1929]] || [[1929 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team|Notre Dame]] || 9–0 || [[Knute Rockne]]
|-
| [[1930 college football season|1930]] || [[1930 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team|Notre Dame]] || 10–0 || [[Knute Rockne]]
|-
| [[1931 college football season|1931]] || [[1931 USC Trojans football team|USC]] || 10–1 || [[Howard Jones (American football coach)|Howard Jones]]
|-
| [[1932 college football season|1932]] || [[1932 USC Trojans football team|USC]] || 10–0 || [[Howard Jones (American football coach)|Howard Jones]]
|-
| [[1933 college football season|1933]] || [[1933 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]] || 7–0–1 || [[Harry Kipke]]
|-
| [[1934 college football season|1934]] || [[1934 Alabama Crimson Tide football team|Alabama]] || 10–0 || [[Frank Thomas (American football)|Frank Thomas]]
|-
| colspan=4 {{rh2|align=center}} | Poling System rating
|-
| [[1935 college football season|1935]] || [[1935 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team|Minnesota]] || 8–0 || [[Bernie Bierman]]
|-
| [[1936 college football season|1936]] || [[1936 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team|Minnesota]] || 7–1 || [[Bernie Bierman]]
|-
| [[1937 college football season|1937]] || [[1937 Pittsburgh Panthers football team|Pittsburgh]] || 9–0–1 || [[Jock Sutherland]]
|-
| [[1938 college football season|1938]] || [[1938 Tennessee Volunteers football team|Tennessee]] || 11–0 || [[Robert Neyland]]
|-
| [[1939 college football season|1939]] || [[1939 Texas A&M Aggies football team|Texas A&M]] || 11–0 || [[Homer H. Norton|Homer Norton]]
|-
| [[1940 college football season|1940]]<ref name="PolingSupplement1940">{{cite book |last=Poling |first=Richard R. |author-link=Poling System |date=1941 |title=The 1940 Supplement of the Football Review |url= |location=Mansfield, Ohio |publisher=Poling's Football Ratings |section=Top Teams of 1940 |quote=We predicted that STANFORD would beat NEBRASKA by from seven to ten points, and this game came home to us right – final score STANFORD 21 NEBRASKA 13. This game bore us out and thus made STANFORD NATIONAL FOOTBALL CHAMPIONS OF 1940. [...] No. 1 Stanford 45.06, No. 2 Minnesota 43.13, No 3. Boston College 43.0 }}</ref><ref name="UNCW_Poling_1940">{{cite archive |first=Richard R. |last=Poling |item=Poling’s Football Review Supplement, 1940 |item-url=https://archivesspace.uncw.edu/repositories/5/archival_objects/73613 |type= |item-id= |date=1941 |page= |pages= |fonds= |series= |file= |box=422 |collection=John Gunn Sports Collection |collection-url= |repository=Center for Southeast North Carolina Archives and History, William M. Randall Library |institution=University of North Carolina Wilmington |location= |oclc= |accession= }}</ref> || [[1940 Stanford Indians football team|Stanford]] || 10–0 || [[Clark Shaughnessy]]
|-
| [[1941 college football season|1941]] || [[1941 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team|Minnesota]] || 8–0 || [[Bernie Bierman]]
|-
| [[1942 college football season|1942]] || [[1942 Georgia Bulldogs football team|Georgia]] || 11–1 || [[Wally Butts]]
|-
| [[1943 college football season|1943]] || [[1943 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team|Notre Dame]] || 9–1 || [[Frank Leahy]]
|-
| [[1944 college football season|1944]] || [[1944 Army Cadets football team|Army]] || 9–0 || [[Earl Blaik]]
|-
| [[1945 college football season|1945]] || [[1945 Army Cadets football team|Army]] || 9–0 || [[Earl Blaik]]
|-
| rowspan="2" | [[1946 college football season|1946]] || [[1946 Army Cadets football team|Army]] || 9–0–1 || [[Earl Blaik]]
|-
| [[1946 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team|Notre Dame]] || 8–0–1 || [[Frank Leahy]]
|-
| [[1947 college football season|1947]] || [[1947 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]] || 10–0 || [[Fritz Crisler]]
|-
| [[1948 college football season|1948]] || [[1948 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]] || 9–0 || [[Bennie Oosterbaan]]
|-
| [[1949 college football season|1949]] || [[1949 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team|Notre Dame]] || 10–0 || [[Frank Leahy]]
|-
| [[1950 college football season|1950]] || [[1950 Princeton Tigers football team|Princeton]] || 9–0 || [[Charley Caldwell]]
|-
| [[1951 college football season|1951]] || [[1951 Michigan State Spartans football team|Michigan State]] || 9–0 || [[Biggie Munn]]
|-
| [[1952 college football season|1952]] || [[1952 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team|Georgia Tech]] || 12–0 || [[Bobby Dodd]]
|-
| [[1953 college football season|1953]] || [[1953 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team|Notre Dame]] || 9–0–1 || [[Frank Leahy]]
|-
| [[1954 college football season|1954]] || [[1954 Ohio State Buckeyes football team|Ohio State]] || 10–0 || [[Woody Hayes]]
|-
| [[1955 college football season|1955]] || [[1955 Oklahoma Sooners football team|Oklahoma]] || 11–0 || [[Bud Wilkinson]]
|-
| [[1956 college football season|1956]]<ref name="PolingSupplement1981"/> || [[1956 Oklahoma Sooners football team|Oklahoma]] || 10–0 || [[Bud Wilkinson]]
|-
| [[1957 college football season|1957]] || [[1957 Auburn Tigers football team|Auburn]] || 10–0 || [[Ralph Jordan]]
|-
| [[1958 college football season|1958]] || [[1958 LSU Tigers football team|LSU]] || 11–0 || [[Paul Dietzel]]
|-
| [[1959 college football season|1959]] || [[1959 Syracuse Orangemen football team|Syracuse]] || 11–0 || [[Ben Schwartzwalder]]
|-
| [[1960 college football season|1960]] || [[1960 Missouri Tigers football team|Missouri]] || 11–0 || [[Dan Devine]]
|-
| [[1961 college football season|1961]] || [[1961 Ohio State Buckeyes football team|Ohio State]] || 8–0–1 || [[Woody Hayes]]
|-
| [[1962 NCAA University Division football season|1962]] || [[1962 USC Trojans football team|USC]] || 11–0 || [[John McKay (American football)|John McKay]]
|-
| [[1963 NCAA University Division football season|1963]] || [[1963 Texas Longhorns football team|Texas]] || 11–0 || [[Darrell Royal]]
|-
| [[1964 NCAA University Division football season|1964]] || [[1964 Arkansas Razorbacks football team|Arkansas]] || 11–0 || [[Frank Broyles]]
|-
| [[1965 NCAA University Division football season|1965]] || [[1965 Michigan State Spartans football team|Michigan State]] || 10–1 || [[Duffy Daugherty]]
|-
| [[1966 NCAA University Division football season|1966]] || [[1966 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team|Notre Dame]] || 9–0–1 || [[Ara Parseghian]]
|-
| [[1967 NCAA University Division football season|1967]] || [[1967 Oklahoma Sooners football team|Oklahoma]] || 10–1 || [[Chuck Fairbanks]]
|-
| [[1968 NCAA University Division football season|1968]] || [[1968 Ohio State Buckeyes football team|Ohio State]] || 10–0 || [[Woody Hayes]]
|-
| [[1969 NCAA University Division football season|1969]] || [[1969 Texas Longhorns football team|Texas]] || 11–0 || [[Darrell Royal]]
|-
| [[1970 NCAA University Division football season|1970]] || [[1970 Arizona State Sun Devils football team|Arizona State]] || 11–0 || [[Frank Kush]]
|-
| [[1971 NCAA University Division football season|1971]] || [[1971 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team|Nebraska]] || 13–0 || [[Bob Devaney]]
|-
| [[1972 NCAA University Division football season|1972]] || [[1972 USC Trojans football team|USC]] || 12–0 || [[John McKay (American football)|John McKay]]
|-
| rowspan="2" | [[1973 NCAA Division I football season|1973]] || [[1973 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]] || 10–0–1 || [[Bo Schembechler]]
|-
| [[1973 Ohio State Buckeyes football team|Ohio State]] || 10–0–1 || [[Woody Hayes]]
|-
| [[1974 NCAA Division I football season|1974]] || [[1974 Oklahoma Sooners football team|Oklahoma]] || 11–0 || [[Barry Switzer]]
|-
| [[1975 NCAA Division I football season|1975]] || [[1975 Ohio State Buckeyes football team|Ohio State]] || 11–1 || [[Woody Hayes]]
|-
| [[1976 NCAA Division I football season|1976]] || [[1976 Pittsburgh Panthers football team|Pittsburgh]] || 12–0 || [[Johnny Majors]]
|-
| [[1977 NCAA Division I football season|1977]] || [[1977 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team|Notre Dame]] || 11–1 || [[Dan Devine]]
|-
| [[1978 NCAA Division I-A football season|1978]] || [[1978 Oklahoma Sooners football team|Oklahoma]] || 11–1 || [[Barry Switzer]]
|-
| [[1979 NCAA Division I-A football season|1979]] || [[1979 Alabama Crimson Tide football team|Alabama]] || 12–0 || [[Bear Bryant|Paul "Bear" Bryant]]
|-
| [[1980 NCAA Division I-A football season|1980]] || [[1980 Georgia Bulldogs football team|Georgia]] || 12–0 || [[Vince Dooley]]
|-
| [[1981 NCAA Division I-A football season|1981]]<ref name="PolingSupplement1981">{{cite book |last=Poling |first=Richard R. |author-link=Poling System |date=1981 |title=Supplement for the 1981 Football Season |number=44 |url= |location=Mansfield, Ohio |publisher=Poling's Football Ratings — The 1981 Football Review |section=Poling's National Champions over the Years }}</ref> || [[1981 Clemson Tigers football team|Clemson]] || 12–0 || [[Danny Ford]]
|-
| [[1982 NCAA Division I-A football season|1982]] || [[1982 Penn State Nittany Lions football team|Penn State]] || 11–1 || [[Joe Paterno]]
|-
| [[1983 NCAA Division I-A football season|1983]] || [[1983 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team|Nebraska]] || 12–1 || [[Tom Osborne]]
|-
| [[1984 NCAA Division I-A football season|1984]] || [[1984 BYU Cougars football team|BYU]] || 13–0 || [[LaVell Edwards]]
|-
|}


==References==
==References==
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[[Category:College football championships]]
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[[Category:College football awards organizations]]


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Latest revision as of 01:27, 8 November 2024

The Poling System was a mathematical rating system used to rank college football teams.[1] Its selections were published in the Football Review Supplement and several newspapers.[1] The system was developed by Richard R. Poling, a native of Mansfield, Ohio who had played college football at Ohio Wesleyan University.

The Poling System is considered by the NCAA to have been a "major selector" of national championships for the years 1935–1984.[1]: 108 

Champions

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The Poling System named contemporary champions from 1935 to 1984 and retroactively named champions from 1924 to 1934.[1]: 108–109, 111–114, 120 

Season Champion(s) Record Coach
Retrospective selections
1924 Notre Dame 10–0 Knute Rockne
1925 Alabama 10–0 Wallace Wade
1926 Alabama 9–0–1 Wallace Wade
1927 Georgia 9–1 George Cecil Woodruff
1928 Georgia Tech 10–0 William Alexander
1929 Notre Dame 9–0 Knute Rockne
1930 Notre Dame 10–0 Knute Rockne
1931 USC 10–1 Howard Jones
1932 USC 10–0 Howard Jones
1933 Michigan 7–0–1 Harry Kipke
1934 Alabama 10–0 Frank Thomas
Poling System rating
1935 Minnesota 8–0 Bernie Bierman
1936 Minnesota 7–1 Bernie Bierman
1937 Pittsburgh 9–0–1 Jock Sutherland
1938 Tennessee 11–0 Robert Neyland
1939 Texas A&M 11–0 Homer Norton
1940[2][3] Stanford 10–0 Clark Shaughnessy
1941 Minnesota 8–0 Bernie Bierman
1942 Georgia 11–1 Wally Butts
1943 Notre Dame 9–1 Frank Leahy
1944 Army 9–0 Earl Blaik
1945 Army 9–0 Earl Blaik
1946 Army 9–0–1 Earl Blaik
Notre Dame 8–0–1 Frank Leahy
1947 Michigan 10–0 Fritz Crisler
1948 Michigan 9–0 Bennie Oosterbaan
1949 Notre Dame 10–0 Frank Leahy
1950 Princeton 9–0 Charley Caldwell
1951 Michigan State 9–0 Biggie Munn
1952 Georgia Tech 12–0 Bobby Dodd
1953 Notre Dame 9–0–1 Frank Leahy
1954 Ohio State 10–0 Woody Hayes
1955 Oklahoma 11–0 Bud Wilkinson
1956[4] Oklahoma 10–0 Bud Wilkinson
1957 Auburn 10–0 Ralph Jordan
1958 LSU 11–0 Paul Dietzel
1959 Syracuse 11–0 Ben Schwartzwalder
1960 Missouri 11–0 Dan Devine
1961 Ohio State 8–0–1 Woody Hayes
1962 USC 11–0 John McKay
1963 Texas 11–0 Darrell Royal
1964 Arkansas 11–0 Frank Broyles
1965 Michigan State 10–1 Duffy Daugherty
1966 Notre Dame 9–0–1 Ara Parseghian
1967 Oklahoma 10–1 Chuck Fairbanks
1968 Ohio State 10–0 Woody Hayes
1969 Texas 11–0 Darrell Royal
1970 Arizona State 11–0 Frank Kush
1971 Nebraska 13–0 Bob Devaney
1972 USC 12–0 John McKay
1973 Michigan 10–0–1 Bo Schembechler
Ohio State 10–0–1 Woody Hayes
1974 Oklahoma 11–0 Barry Switzer
1975 Ohio State 11–1 Woody Hayes
1976 Pittsburgh 12–0 Johnny Majors
1977 Notre Dame 11–1 Dan Devine
1978 Oklahoma 11–1 Barry Switzer
1979 Alabama 12–0 Paul "Bear" Bryant
1980 Georgia 12–0 Vince Dooley
1981[4] Clemson 12–0 Danny Ford
1982 Penn State 11–1 Joe Paterno
1983 Nebraska 12–1 Tom Osborne
1984 BYU 13–0 LaVell Edwards

References

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  1. ^ a b c d National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2017). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I FBS Football Records. NCAA. pp. 108–109, 111–114. Retrieved December 7, 2017. Poling System (1935-84), a mathematical rating system for college football teams developed by Richard Poling from Mansfield, Ohio, a former football player at Ohio Wesleyan. Poling's football ratings were published annually in the Football Review Supplement and in various newspapers. Predated national champions from 1924 to 1934.
  2. ^ Poling, Richard R. (1941). "Top Teams of 1940". The 1940 Supplement of the Football Review. Mansfield, Ohio: Poling's Football Ratings. We predicted that STANFORD would beat NEBRASKA by from seven to ten points, and this game came home to us right – final score STANFORD 21 NEBRASKA 13. This game bore us out and thus made STANFORD NATIONAL FOOTBALL CHAMPIONS OF 1940. [...] No. 1 Stanford 45.06, No. 2 Minnesota 43.13, No 3. Boston College 43.0
  3. ^ Poling, Richard R. "Poling’s Football Review Supplement, 1940" (1941). John Gunn Sports Collection, Box: 422. Center for Southeast North Carolina Archives and History, William M. Randall Library, University of North Carolina Wilmington.
  4. ^ a b Poling, Richard R. (1981). "Poling's National Champions over the Years". Supplement for the 1981 Football Season. Mansfield, Ohio: Poling's Football Ratings — The 1981 Football Review.


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