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Speaker 1: give you this twelve to fifteen minute Top twenty Best

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Speaker 1: twenty Enjoy. Hi, it's Colin Coward at the Volume. We're

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Speaker 1: going to give you Top twenty Last twenty, our look

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Speaker 1: at the most dominant college football programs in America over

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Speaker 1: the last two decades. We will use four criteria winning, star, power, consistency,

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Speaker 1: at number twenty Boise State, who would qualify for tenth

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Speaker 1: We put them at twenty eight. They're staggering consistency, three

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Speaker 1: different coaches, one at least seventy eight percent of their games,

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Speaker 1: NFL than you'd like to admit. But what really separates

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Speaker 1: a playoff, inclusion Poisey State at twenty number nineteen Texas

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Speaker 1: A and M. They only won fifty nine percent of

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Speaker 1: number eighteen the Big Ten's Iowa Hawkeyes two conference titles,

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Speaker 1: though both are shared. George Kittle is their biggest star

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Speaker 1: nobody matches up to Kirk Ferns, their only coach in

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Speaker 1: sixteen first rounders helps, but they've been terrible in Bull

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Speaker 1: Games four and twelve. But between their fight song, uniform, stadium,

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Speaker 1: narrowly edge and I mean narrowly the Hawkeyes. Penn State,

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Speaker 1: out the Wolverines three conference titles, star power helps too. Ever,

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Speaker 1: They won almost seventy one percent of their games, and

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Speaker 1: And people may forget this about the Longhorns. Yes, they

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Speaker 1: the SEC's Auburn Tigers. Three different coaches won at least

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Speaker 1: Alabama Georgia at nine. The ACC's Florida State seminals or eight,

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Speaker 1: the Knolls number six. And it may surprise some Florida

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Speaker 1: That matters a lot to us. It's also a conveyor

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Speaker 1: Jim Tressell won eighty three percent of his games. That

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Speaker 1: number one is nothing we've ever seen is Alabama? Six

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