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
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2001: Miami (Fla.)
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2002: Ohio State
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2003: LSU, Southern California (split national championship)
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2004: Southern California (Vacated by the NCAA Committee on Infractions)
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2005: Texas
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2006: Florida
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2007: LSU
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2008: Florida
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2009: Alabama
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2010: Auburn
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2011: Alabama
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2012: Alabama
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2013: Florida State
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2014: Ohio State
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2015: Alabama
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2016: Clemson
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2017: Alabama
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2018: Clemson
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2019: LSU
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2020: Alabama
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2021: Georgia
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2022: Georgia
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2023: Michigan
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