1996 saw Florida finish atop the RPR after avenging their only loss in a rematch against rival Florida State in the Bowl Alliance’s national championship game at the Sugar Bowl. The Gators had the nation’s best SOS along with the 2nd-best Win % and 4th-best Score Ratio. Three other teams fell within the CCT cutoff, but they failed to measure up to Florida when taking a closer look at them.

Co-champion Consideration Threshold: 0.0384; CCT Rating Cutoff: 0.6968

Rank	FBS Teams	WP	SOS	SR	Rating
1	Florida (AP/C)	0.9231	0.6220	0.7344	0.7253
2	Ohio State	0.9167	0.5907	0.7765	0.7186
3	Florida State	0.9167	0.5777	0.7194	0.6978
4	Nebraska	0.8462	0.5872	0.7607	0.6953
5	Arizona State	0.9167	0.5687	0.6932	0.6868
6	Brigham Young	0.9333	0.5245	0.6805	0.6657
7	North Carolina	0.8333	0.5382	0.7438	0.6634
8	Colorado	0.8333	0.5840	0.6154	0.6542
9	Tennessee	0.8333	0.5378	0.7026	0.6529
10	Penn State	0.8462	0.5412	0.6633	0.6480
11	Virginia Tech	0.8333	0.5533	0.6390	0.6448
12	Kansas State	0.7500	0.5896	0.6403	0.6424
13	Alabama	0.7692	0.5797	0.6184	0.6368
14	Washington	0.7500	0.5870	0.6062	0.6325
15	Syracuse	0.7500	0.5467	0.6775	0.6302
16	Louisiana State	0.8333	0.5342	0.6147	0.6291
17	Miami, FL	0.7500	0.5646	0.6367	0.6290
18	Notre Dame	0.7273	0.5423	0.6922	0.6260
19	Army	0.8333	0.5064	0.6285	0.6186
20	East Carolina	0.7273	0.5647	0.5962	0.6132
21	Auburn	0.6667	0.5878	0.5896	0.6080
22	Michigan	0.6667	0.5773	0.6009	0.6055
23	Iowa	0.7500	0.5420	0.5825	0.6041
24	Southern Mississippi	0.7273	0.5724	0.5375	0.6024
25	Wyoming	0.8333	0.4724	0.6203	0.5996
26	West Virginia	0.6667	0.5229	0.6347	0.5868
27	Northwestern	0.7500	0.5165	0.5472	0.5826
28	Texas	0.6154	0.5520	0.5944	0.5784
29	Virginia	0.5833	0.5502	0.6268	0.5776
30	Texas Tech	0.5833	0.5507	0.5820	0.5667
31	Navy	0.7500	0.4741	0.5592	0.5644
32	Wisconsin	0.6154	0.5169	0.6081	0.5643
33	Nevada	0.7500	0.4250	0.6494	0.5623
34	Rice	0.6364	0.5601	0.4868	0.5608
35	San Diego State	0.7273	0.4618	0.5855	0.5591
36	Utah	0.6667	0.5239	0.5032	0.5544
37	Air Force	0.5455	0.5281	0.6091	0.5527
38	Houston	0.5833	0.5523	0.5142	0.5506
39	South Carolina	0.5455	0.5688	0.5072	0.5476
40	Stanford	0.5833	0.5415	0.5189	0.5463
41	Texas A&M	0.5000	0.5480	0.5773	0.5433
42	Southern California	0.5000	0.5599	0.5490	0.5422
43	Oregon	0.5455	0.5476	0.5150	0.5389
44	Clemson	0.5833	0.5309	0.5041	0.5373
45	UCLA	0.4545	0.5910	0.5093	0.5364
46	Colorado State	0.5833	0.5149	0.5307	0.5360
47	Ball State	0.6667	0.4434	0.5850	0.5346
48	Utah State	0.5455	0.5364	0.4933	0.5279
49	Michigan State	0.5000	0.5333	0.5424	0.5273
50	New Mexico	0.5455	0.5033	0.5417	0.5235
51	Idaho	0.5455	0.4941	0.5582	0.5230
52	Miami, OH	0.5455	0.4612	0.6190	0.5217
53	Cincinnati	0.5455	0.5040	0.5182	0.5179
54	Georgia	0.4545	0.5721	0.4723	0.5177
55	California	0.5000	0.5386	0.4842	0.5153
56	Mississippi State	0.4545	0.5411	0.5209	0.5144
57	Southern Methodist	0.4545	0.5509	0.4795	0.5090
58	Arizona	0.4545	0.5114	0.5254	0.5007
59	Ohio	0.5000	0.4686	0.5603	0.4994
60	Mississippi	0.4545	0.5541	0.4292	0.4980
61	Georgia Tech	0.4545	0.5197	0.4825	0.4941
62	Louisiana-Lafayette	0.4545	0.5447	0.4294	0.4933
63	Missouri	0.4545	0.5449	0.4251	0.4924
64	Central Florida	0.4545	0.4948	0.5149	0.4898
65	Kansas	0.3636	0.5621	0.4559	0.4859
66	Louisville	0.4545	0.5075	0.4703	0.4850
67	Washington State	0.4545	0.4928	0.4976	0.4845
68	Toledo	0.6364	0.4260	0.4478	0.4841
69	Minnesota	0.3636	0.5750	0.4097	0.4808
70	Louisiana Tech	0.5455	0.4356	0.5065	0.4808
71	Boston College	0.4167	0.5389	0.4204	0.4787
72	Maryland	0.4545	0.4876	0.4390	0.4672
73	Oklahoma State	0.4545	0.4937	0.4263	0.4671
74	Memphis	0.3636	0.5538	0.3917	0.4657
75	Indiana	0.2727	0.5666	0.4540	0.4650
76	UAB	0.4545	0.4579	0.4881	0.4646
77	Tulsa	0.3636	0.5289	0.4239	0.4613
78	Arkansas State	0.3636	0.5188	0.4270	0.4570
79	Purdue	0.2727	0.5797	0.3745	0.4517
80	Kentucky	0.3636	0.5702	0.3000	0.4510
81	Arkansas	0.3636	0.6090	0.2170	0.4497
82	Pittsburgh	0.3636	0.5508	0.3323	0.4494
83	Baylor	0.3636	0.4818	0.4539	0.4453
84	Tulane	0.1818	0.5772	0.4428	0.4447
85	Iowa State	0.1818	0.5779	0.4392	0.4442
86	Central Michigan	0.4545	0.4115	0.4986	0.4440
87	Lousiana-Monroe	0.4545	0.4743	0.3523	0.4389
88	Fresno State	0.3636	0.4747	0.4370	0.4375
89	North Texas	0.4545	0.4690	0.3546	0.4368
90	North Carolina State	0.2727	0.5353	0.4006	0.4360
91	Oklahoma	0.2727	0.5293	0.3941	0.4313
92	Vanderbilt	0.1818	0.5891	0.3427	0.4257
93	Texas Christian	0.3636	0.4613	0.4113	0.4244
94	Bowling Green	0.3636	0.4399	0.4231	0.4166
95	Wake Forest	0.2727	0.5387	0.2780	0.4070
96	Rutgers	0.1818	0.5729	0.2734	0.4003
97	Illinois	0.1818	0.5398	0.3381	0.3999
98	Oregon State	0.1818	0.5048	0.3576	0.3873
99	Akron	0.3636	0.3955	0.3941	0.3872
100	Eastern Michigan	0.2727	0.4244	0.4251	0.3867
101	San Jose State	0.2500	0.4730	0.3303	0.3816
102	Western Michigan	0.1818	0.4574	0.4063	0.3757
103	Temple	0.0909	0.5157	0.3609	0.3708
104	UNLV	0.0833	0.5328	0.3337	0.3707
105	Texas-El Paso	0.1818	0.4483	0.3682	0.3616
106	Duke	0.0000	0.5603	0.2994	0.3550
107	Hawaii	0.1667	0.4857	0.2710	0.3523
108	Boise State	0.1667	0.4432	0.3433	0.3491
109	Kent State	0.1818	0.4175	0.3414	0.3395
110	New Mexico State	0.0909	0.4709	0.2954	0.3320
111	Northern Illinois	0.0909	0.4187	0.2819	0.3026

Best Win Percentage: Brigham Young
Best SOS: Florida
Best Score Ratio: Ohio State