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Meet the BCS-era Top 25

By Chris Fallica, Nick Loucks and Harold Shelton
ESPN Research

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Who is No. 1? That debate rages weekly during each college football season, and often long after the season is over and the trophies have been handed out. The debate is as much a part of the annual ritual as the touchdowns, fight songs and bowl games. ESPN's Prestige Rankings may settle a few bets, or start a few arguments. Point values were assigned for certain successes (win a national title, earn 25 points) and failures (get your program banned from the postseason, lose two points). We ran a ...

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