Michigan has reclaimed the highest winning percentage in college football

Submitted by Malarkey on January 9th, 2024 at 2:00 PM

Michigan 0.73419 1004-353-36

Ohio State 0.73407 964-333-53

Alabama 0.73382 965-337-43

SeaWolv

January 9th, 2024 at 3:47 PM ^

Well Michigan may not have reclaimed the highest winning percentage, yet, but they have moved up to 14 National Championships which moves them within two of Alabama at 16. Michigan is 2nd all time in National Championships.

(Note: I didn't include Yale or Princeton in this as most of their championships came before the start of last century and I did include 1973 and 1985 as they should have had a share of those titles)

superstringer

January 9th, 2024 at 3:26 PM ^

Correct. NCAA applies NFL rule that ties are worth half a win. (Although apparently not written down anywhere in any rules. And NFL only adopted that rule a few years ago, IIRC.)

By that measure, the Suckeyes are 0.0035% ahead of us. Correct, three-and-a-half-thousands of one percent. That's like a Planck length enough to gain a first down, sort of thing. In double overtime...

greymarch

January 9th, 2024 at 2:25 PM ^

I'll see if I can find the link...a few weeks ago I read an article stating that if UM defeated Bama, that would move UM into the #2 all-time winning percentage, and OSU would stay at #1 by the thinnest of margins.

 

#GoBlue

TruBluMich

January 9th, 2024 at 2:36 PM ^

We had this discussion before the Rose Bowl when we were still in third. Quailman showed the math: we are second and only .0001 behind Ohio State, who moved back to #1 because we won the National Title.  I'll take that trade.

https://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/ohio-state-no-longer-1-all-time-winning-percentage

Quailman

December 31st, 2023 at 10:37 PM ^

Ohio State is 964-333-53 for a .7337

If UM beats Bama, 

Bama falls to 965-337-43 for a .73345 and UM improves to 1003-353-36 and .7335

If UM wins the title, they are now 1004-353-36 and .7336

rambouhh

January 9th, 2024 at 3:03 PM ^

This isn't true. I wish it was. 

I did the math and OSU is at .73370 and we are at .73366. If we were to win more game we would have taken it though.

The formula is (wins + (ties/2))/Games

I'm not sure why a poster is just making up numbers 

M-Dog

January 9th, 2024 at 4:19 PM ^

This is huge.

We own the record for more wins than anybody else, but rivals will say that we just started playing earlier.  

But owning the win % record shows that we beat a higher percentage of the teams we played than anybody else.

Owning both records shows that we are truly the winningest team of all time!