Update: This article was previously published in 2023, but has been updated for 2024.
Only 13 different teams have won the collage national football championship title since 2000.
Given how dominant certain teams have been over the years — from Nick Saban’s Alabama to Ohio State’s reign in the mid-2010s — it should come as no surprise that just 13 teams have dominated the landscape. It’s not easy to become a championship contender overnight in college football and it can take years to rise to the pinnacle in a world of heavyweights.
And the latest to join the ranks is Michigan, who won its first national championship since 1997 after besting Washington. The Wolverines capped off a perfect 15-0 season with a 34-13 victory over the Huskies to bring the national championship back to the Big Ten.
Here is every college football team that has been crowned national champion since 2000.
2000: Oklahoma
2001: Miami (Fla.)
2002: Ohio State
2003: LSU, Southern California (split national championship)
2004: Southern California (Vacated by the NCAA Committee on Infractions)
2005: Texas
2006: Florida
2007: LSU
2008: Florida
2009: Alabama
2010: Auburn
2011: Alabama
2012: Alabama
2013: Florida State
2014: Ohio State
2015: Alabama
2016: Clemson
2017: Alabama
2018: Clemson
2019: LSU
2020: Alabama
2021: Georgia
2022: Georgia
2023: Michigan
