About the Perpetual National Championship

The Perpetual National Championship is a title awarded to college football teams in a boxing-style system. The title is contested every time the holder of the title steps onto the field. The first title was awarded to Rutgers in 1869 after they defeated Princeton 6-4 in the first-ever college football game. Princeton retook the title seven days later beating Rutgers 8-0.

The winner of the title match receives a yet-to-be designed belt called, affectionately, the Perp. We'll get back to you when we actually have one, but what we have in mind is a big cowboy/boxing title belt with an infinity symbol and some serious bling.

The All-Time Perps are the team who won or defended the Perpetual National Championship the most times. To determine the All-Time Perp we gave 1 point to a team for winning of defending the title and 0 points for a tie.

Since Div I college football (The PNC doesn't recognize FBS as a name) doesn't currently have a playoff and relies on voters to determine a championship game, the Perpetual Nation Championship is the only national championship decided on the field.

The PNC committee was organized in late 2008 because the world was desperate for a championship where the teams involved actually decided the title. We used to have the following conversation every four years with our wife:
Us, "I don't think gymnastics is a sport because the individuals don't actually determine the outcome. The judges do."
Wife, "The two teams who play in college football's national championship are determined in a similar fashion."

Beholden to two diabolically opposing forces (intellectual honesty and college football) we had to find a way to save our beloved sport from this trap. Thus the Perp was born.