College Football Championships Won by Ohio Colleges and Universities
1942-2017

Public
Bowling Green State University	NCAA College Division	1959	1
Central State University	NAIA, NAIA Division I	1962, 1982, 1992, 1995	4
Ohio State University	Associated Press, Bowl Championship Series, College Football Playoff	1942, 1954, 1968, 1970, 2002, 2014	6
Ohio University	NCAA College Division	1960	1
Youngstown State University	NCAA Division I-AA	1991, 1993, 1994, 1997	4
TOTAL Public			16
Independent
Baldwin-Wallace College	NCAA Division III	1978	1
Dayton, University of	NCAA Division III	1980, 1989	2
Findlay, University of	NAIA Division II, NAIA	1979, 1992, 1995, 1997	4
Mount Union College/ University of Mount Union	NCAA Division III	1993, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2012, 2015, 2017	13
Wittenberg University	NCAA Division III	1973, 1975	2
TOTAL Independent			22

 

Notes:
The NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, formerly known as Division I-A, Division I, and the University Division, does not hold a formal championship tournament. Before the advent of the Bowl Championship Series in 1998 and the successor College Football Playoff in 2014, the most generally accepted national football champion was the highest ranked team in the final Associated Press writers' poll. Ohio State University also claims national championships awarded by the Football Writers Association of America in 1957 (AP rated Auburn as the nation's top team) and 1961 (Alabama won the AP top ranking). If included, these would raise Ohio State's total to eight, and the public universities' total to 18.
In 1995 the University of Findlay was named co-champion of the NAIA Division II football tournament, as the championship game ended in a tie.