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Texas played Alabama this year and is set to play Alabama or Michigan if we beat Washington. We have games against Michigan, OSU, and Alabama in the coming years. I listed out our record against the top cluster of schools in the "weeks top 5 versus weeks in poll" graph. Some will want to add another blue blood or drop Nebraska, but I simply followed the numbers. I grouped those with over 700 weeks in the AP poll (and over 250 in top 5) as blue bloods and those with over 350 as helmet schools. Some will obviously balk at my including aggy as a helmet school, but they meet the criterion. The cutoff as set provides a historical top 25.

8 Blue blood (>700 weeks in AP)
Texas
Alabama 8-2-1 (.773)
Michigan 1-0-0 (1.000)
OU 63-51-5 (.550)
OSU 2-1-0 (.667)
Neb 10-4-0 (.714)
ND 3-9-0 (.250)
USC 2-5-0 (.286)
TOTAL 89-72-6 (.551)
non-OU 26-21-1 (.552) (I wanted to see how much OU biases our average, but they fall very close to the mean for other teams)

17 Helmet schools (>350 weeks in AP)
Arkansas 56-23-0 (.709)
Auburn 5-3-0 (.625)
Clemson 0-0-0 (n/a)
Florida 2-0-1 (.833)
FSU 0-0-0 (n/a)
Georgia 4-1-0 (.800)
Iowa 1-1-0 (.500)
LSU 9-8-1 (.528)
Miami 2-2-0 (.500)
Michigan St 0-0-0 (n/a)
Oregon 4-2-0 (.667)
PSU 2-3-0 (.400)
Tennessee 2-1-0 (.667)
Tx A&M 76-37-5 (.665)
Washington 3-2-0 (.600)
Wisconsin 1-0-0 (1.000)
UCLA 3-4-0 (.429)
TOTAL 170-87-7 (.657)

GRAND TOTAL 259-159-13 (.616)

Perhaps someone with more internet and spreadsheet ability and will may assemble a more complete comparison. Bottom line, though: Texas has a long history of winning football games against the best and against the best of the best.

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This is a list of college football teams by the number of weeks they have been ranked number one in the AP poll since its inception in 1936 through December 3, 2023.[1][2]

Rank Team Weeks First appearance Most recent appearance
1 Alabama 140 1961 2022
2 Ohio State 105 1942 2019
3 Oklahoma 101 1950 2011
4 Notre Dame 98 1938 2012
5 USC 91 1939 2012
6 Florida State 72 1988 2014
7 Nebraska 70 1965 2000
8 Miami (FL) 68 1983 2002
9 Georgia 51 1942 2023
10 Texas 45 1941 2008
11 Florida 41 1985 2009
12 LSU 38 1958 2019
13 Michigan 35 1947 2023
14 Michigan State 29 1951 1966
15 Army 27 1944 1958
16 Clemson 25 1981 2020
17 Penn State 21 1978 1997
Pittsburgh 21 1937 1982
19 Minnesota 18 1936 1960
Tennessee 18 1939 1998
21 Washington 15 1982 1992
22 Iowa 11 1960 1985
23 Auburn 9 1957 2010
24 Oregon 8 2010 2012
25 Colorado 7 1989 1990
Syracuse 7 1959 1960
Texas A&M 7 1939 1957
UCLA 7 1954 1988
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WEEKS IN POLL

 
 
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