Quote Originally Posted by ATXCajun
The fact that UL has been playing football for its entire existence and for over 100 years is noteworthy no matter how you slice it. However, using a percentage of existence to rank schools loses some flavor when you consider that the rules for american football as we know it today were written in 1876. Rutgers was one of the first teams to ever play the game, yet they are way down the list because they existed long before football. Having said all that, I see that you have the years of organized football sheet as well. To me that is a more valid and meaningful statistic.
Good points.


I did not penalize for the dropped years. If I had, UL would rank first.

Stanford was the first D1a school to have a football team ready its first year. So football has been a "part" of Stanfords history for 100% even though they skipped a year.

So unlike at UL, FB wasn't there for the "whole" of Stanfords history.

In the 105 years since, 3 younger schools have accomplished the same.