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  • The first to rank the best

    Jan 9, 2020 8:30 am by Dave EvensenCampus Life
    Frank Dickinson, a former economics professor at Illinois, created the first widely accepted college football ranking system. (Photo courtesy of the Department of Economics.)

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    In 1926, an Illinois economics professor used statistics to create the first widely accepted method of naming a national college football champion.

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