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Every season since 1869

157 seasons and 111,178 games played. Pick a year for its final poll, bowl results, biggest upsets and every week’s scoreboard. The AP poll began in 1936; earlier seasons list no poll champion.

Champions and Heisman winners

Every champion
  1. 2025IndianaHeisman Fernando Mendoza
  2. 2024Ohio StateHeisman Travis Hunter
  3. 2023MichiganHeisman Jayden Daniels
  4. 2022GeorgiaHeisman Caleb Williams
  5. 2021GeorgiaHeisman Bryce Young
  6. 2020AlabamaHeisman DeVonta Smith
  7. 2019LSUHeisman Joe Burrow
  8. 2018ClemsonHeisman Kyler Murray
  9. 2017AlabamaHeisman Baker Mayfield
  10. 2016ClemsonHeisman Lamar Jackson
  11. 2015AlabamaHeisman Derrick Henry
  12. 2014Ohio StateHeisman Marcus Mariota

Team pictures, decade by decade

One team picture a decade from the seasons’ Wikipedia articles, the champion’s where there is one; every season’s page shows its own.

Season by season

2020s

20262,211
2025IndianaHeisman: Fernando Mendoza3,830
2024Ohio StateHeisman: Travis Hunter3,799
2023MichiganHeisman: Jayden Daniels3,724
2022GeorgiaHeisman: Caleb Williams3,705
2021GeorgiaHeisman: Bryce Young2,454
2020AlabamaHeisman: DeVonta Smith1,125

2010s

2019LSUHeisman: Joe Burrow1,623
2018ClemsonHeisman: Kyler Murray1,556
2017AlabamaHeisman: Baker Mayfield1,551
2016ClemsonHeisman: Lamar Jackson1,549
2015AlabamaHeisman: Derrick Henry1,538
2014Ohio StateHeisman: Marcus Mariota1,586
2013Florida StateHeisman: Jameis Winston1,534
2012AlabamaHeisman: Johnny Manziel1,379
2011AlabamaHeisman: Robert Griffin III1,498
2010AuburnHeisman: Cam Newton1,462

2000s

2009AlabamaHeisman: Mark Ingram II1,468
2008FloridaHeisman: Sam Bradford1,478
2007LSUHeisman: Tim Tebow1,469
2006FloridaHeisman: Troy Smith1,405
2005TexasHeisman: Reggie Bush1,327
2004USCHeisman: Matt Leinart1,287
2003USCHeisman: Jason White1,338
2002Ohio StateHeisman: Carson Palmer772
2001MiamiHeisman: Eric Crouch709
2000OklahomaHeisman: Chris Weinke702

1990s

1999Florida StateHeisman: Ron Dayne686
1998TennesseeHeisman: Ricky Williams674
1997MichiganHeisman: Charles Woodson666
1996FloridaHeisman: Danny Wuerffel662
1995NebraskaHeisman: Eddie George640
1994NebraskaHeisman: Rashaan Salaam636
1993Florida StateHeisman: Charlie Ward632
1992AlabamaHeisman: Gino Torretta637
1991MiamiHeisman: Desmond Howard639
1990ColoradoHeisman: Ty Detmer646

1980s

1989MiamiHeisman: Andre Ware632
1988Notre DameHeisman: Barry Sanders636
1987MiamiHeisman: Tim Brown633
1986Penn StateHeisman: Vinny Testaverde637
1985OklahomaHeisman: Bo Jackson673
1984BYUHeisman: Doug Flutie676
1983MiamiHeisman: Mike Rozier696
1982Penn StateHeisman: Herschel Walker687
1981ClemsonHeisman: Marcus Allen804
1980GeorgiaHeisman: George Rogers816

1970s

1979AlabamaHeisman: Charles White825
1978AlabamaHeisman: Billy Sims816
1977Notre DameHeisman: Earl Campbell867
1976PittsburghHeisman: Tony Dorsett804
1975OklahomaHeisman: Archie Griffin806
1974OklahomaHeisman: Archie Griffin765
1973Notre DameHeisman: John Cappelletti762
1972USCHeisman: Johnny Rodgers744
1971NebraskaHeisman: Pat Sullivan748
1970NebraskaHeisman: Jim Plunkett705

1960s

1969TexasHeisman: Steve Owens661
1968Ohio StateHeisman: O.J. Simpson644
1967USCHeisman: Gary Beban636
1966Notre DameHeisman: Steve Spurrier638
1965AlabamaHeisman: Mike Garrett644
1964AlabamaHeisman: John Huarte634
1963TexasHeisman: Roger Staubach621
1962USCHeisman: Terry Baker631
1961AlabamaHeisman: Ernie Davis591
1960MinnesotaHeisman: Joe Bellino603

1950s

1959SyracuseHeisman: Billy Cannon597
1958LSUHeisman: Pete Dawkins590
1957AuburnHeisman: John David Crow590
1956OklahomaHeisman: Paul Hornung587
1955OklahomaHeisman: Hopalong Cassady575
1954Ohio StateHeisman: Alan Ameche587
1953MarylandHeisman: Johnny Lattner583
1952Michigan StateHeisman: Bill Vessels600
1951TennesseeHeisman: Dick Kazmaier625
1950OklahomaHeisman: Vic Janowicz651

1940s

1949Notre DameHeisman: Leon Hart646
1948MichiganHeisman: Doak Walker650
1947Notre DameHeisman: Johnny Lujack641
1946Notre DameHeisman: Glenn Davis639
1945ArmyHeisman: Doc Blanchard531
1944ArmyHeisman: Les Horvath517
1943Notre DameHeisman: Angelo Bertelli389
1942Ohio StateHeisman: Frank Sinkwich664
1941MinnesotaHeisman: Bruce Smith632
1940MinnesotaHeisman: Tom Harmon647

1930s

1939Texas A&MHeisman: Nile Kinnick656
1938TCUHeisman: Davey O’Brien665
1937PittsburghHeisman: Clint Frank687
1936MinnesotaHeisman: Larry Kelley726
1935Heisman: Jay Berwanger714
1934688
1933687
1932662
1931648
1930621

1920s

1929582
1928582
1927557
1926544
1925602
1924608
1923615
1922616
1921562
1920521

1910s

1919536
1918292
1917476
1916506
1915470
1914468
1913421
1912425
1911407
1910402

1900s

1909411
1908395
1907376
1906355
1905521
1904480
1903468
1902446
1901322
1900290

1890s

1899294
1898227
1897194
1896201
1895180
1894187
1893163
1892189
1891160
1890118

1880s

1889115
188894
188775
188673
188536
188444
188345
188237
188130
188020

1870s

187922
187819
187714
187614
187517
187410
18738
18725
18702

1860s

18692

The AP champion, the Heisman winner and the games played each season.

The rule book, edition by edition

Every NCAA football rule book since 2000 against the one before it: the articles it added, changed and removed. Each season’s page lists them by rule.

BookIn effectNewChangedRemovedRenumbered or retitled
2026between 2024 and 202631417
2023202318
202220221012
20212021171
2020202031121
2019201943
20182017 or 201862
2016–⁠17201623727
20152014 or 201541914
2013–⁠14201362333
2012–⁠132012362
2011–⁠122010 or 201135641349
2009–⁠1020092765329
200820083393
200720075
200620062272
2005200516
20042004811
200320031311
20022002142
200120011162

The dataset has no book for 2010, 2014, 2017, 2024 or 2025, so the following book’s changes took effect in one of the seasons since the book before it. A change one book makes and the next undoes is left out as a garbled file, not a rule change. Only the first sentence of each article is compared, so a change deeper in an article (most penalty clauses, the overtime procedure) doesn’t show here, and a change that shows may be rewording. No rule text is kept: only numbers and headings. Rule books: NCAA, via Pierce’s provision dataset (Zenodo, CC BY 4.0).