College Football stat historial Tex Noel passes this along:

As our favorite time of the year draw near, the obvious question is Who will be #1?

But here's a stat you may not have been aware of:

Regardless of which team takes home the 2007 BCS title, its first game of the year is the one that will make college football history...

How is that, you ask?

Since 1936, when AP named college football's first champion through Florida's 2006 title, the composite total number of games a champion has been played is 999.  Of that total, it has been played by 131 different opponents played over the past 71 seasons.  While no team has compiled a winning record against a team that later was voted No. 1; 29 teams have garnered at least a win and/or a tie.

Of these 29 teams, 4 schools have won 2 or more games.  Notre Dame has 3 victories; while this year's Pre-Season #1 USC and 2006 Champion, Florida and Florida State each have a pair of victories.  Ohio State heads into the current campaign having played the eventual No. 1 the last two years.

The Buckeyes, however, have a long way to go: To equal the consecutive seasons that the Naval Academy accomplished. From 1943-49, the Midshipmen played that seasons No.1--and it was only two teams, Notre Dame and Army.

Interesting, of the next five teams to play consecutive champions, three (Michigan, Northwestern and Wisconsin) are from the Big 10 Conference and from the same era, 1940-43.  Another Big 10 team - Purdue - ended the '40s by playing a #1, 1946-49.  Sandwiched between the Big 10 runs was Pittsburgh, covering the 1941-44 seasons.