Public |
|
|
|
|
Bowling Green State University |
NCAA College Division |
1959 |
1 |
|
Central State University |
NAIA, |
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/ |
NCAA Division III |
1993, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2012, 2015, |
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.