The '''Boand System''' was a system for determining the college football national championship.<ref>{{Cite web| title = Boand System National Championship Selections| work = College Football Data Warehouse| url = http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/national_championships/champ_results.php?selector=Boand%20System| access-date = 2010-05-07| archive-date = 2010-02-11| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100211123634/http://cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/national_championships/champ_results.php?selector=Boand%20System| url-status = dead}}</ref> It was also known as the '''Azzi Ratem''' system (derived from "As I rate 'em").<ref name=triumph /> The system was developed by William F. Boand.<ref name=triumph /> The rankings were based on mathematical formula.<ref name="BoandSystemExplained1961">{{cite news |last=Boand |first=William F. |agency=Associated Press |date=November 2, 1961 |title=Bill Boand's Baffling System Explained In Briefest Manner |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/117279317/bill-boands-baffling-system-explained/ |work=The New Mexican |publication-place=Sante Fe |access-date=January 26, 2023}}</ref> The Boand System is recognized as a "National Champion Major Selector" by the ''Official NCAA Division I Records Book.''<ref name="Mselectors">{{cite web |url=http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2015/FBS.pdf |title=National Poll Rankings |author=National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) |year=2015|work=NCAA Division I Football Records |publisher=NCAA |pages=105–106 |access-date=January 3, 2016 }}</ref>
Boand announced annual national champions on a current basis from 1930 to 1960. He also chose national champions on a retroactive basis for the years from 1919 to 1929. In the 1937 edition of ''The Illustrated Football Annual'' Boand went back and re-rated the seasons since 1924, this time including bowl game results in his calculations.<ref name="Jenkins">{{citation |last=Jenkins |first=Dan |title=This Year The Fight Will Be in the Open |magazine=Sports Illustrated |date=September 11, 1967 |pages=28–34 |volume=27 |issue=11 |publisher=Time Inc. |location=Chicago, IL |url=https://www.si.com/vault/1967/09/11/614180/this-year-the-fight-will-be-in-the-open |access-date=March 16, 2016}}</ref><ref name="IllustratedFootballAnnual1937"/>
The rankings appeared in many newspapers, the ''Illustrated Football Annual'' from 1932 to 1942, and ''Football News'' from 1942 to 1944 and again from 1951 to 1960.<ref name=triumph>{{Cite book| title = Official 2007 NCAA Division I Football Records Book| publisher = Triumph Books| year = 2007| page = 74| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=wIStdX8VBUgC| isbn =978-1-60078-034-9}}</ref> The design of the system sought to combine the best parts of the Dickinson System, with mathematical systems developed by Ralph Powell of Ohio State University and William T. Van de Graaff, football coach and mathematics instructor at Colorado College.<ref name="BoandSystemExplained1961"/> Prominent football coaches Knute Rockne, Howard Jones, and Pop Warner consulted with Boand on the rankings.<ref name="BoandSystemExplained1961"/> At various times, the system was applied to high school football rankings.<ref name="BoandSystemExplained1961"/>
==National champions== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Season || Champion |- | colspan=3 {{rh2|align=center}} | Retrospective selections |- | | 1919 || Illinois |- | | 1920 || Harvard<br>Princeton |- | | 1921 || California<br>Lafayette<br>Washington & Jefferson |- | | 1922 || Princeton |- | | 1923 || Illinois |- | | 1924 || Notre Dame |- | | 1925 || Alabama |- | | 1926 || Navy |- | rowspan=2 | 1927 || Georgia{{Better source needed |date=December 2023 |reason="1937 Illustrated Football Annual shows Yale. Jenkins prints Yale selection in 1967. Is there a primary source for the 1927 Georgia pick?"}} |- | | Yale<ref name="IllustratedFootballAnnual1937"/> |- | | 1928 || Georgia Tech |- | | 1929 || Notre Dame |- | colspan=3 {{rh2|align=center}} | Boand System rankings |- | | 1930<ref name="1930AzziRatem">{{cite news |date=August 26, 1931 |title=Champion Must Pass Severe Tests on Grid |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/arizona-daily-star-1930-boand-system-azz/136083044/ |work=Arizona Daily Star |quote=More than 500 universities and colleges made their bid for glory, but only one was granted the honor of being hailed as national champion. Of course, that was Notre Dame. — Notre Dame 164; Alabama 157;}}</ref> || Notre Dame |- | | 1931<ref name="AzziRatem1931">{{cite news |date=September 27, 1932 |title=Trojans Again Powerful |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/arizona-daily-star-azzi-ratem-boand-syst/137109567/ |work=Arizona Daily Star |access-date=December 19, 2023 |quote=Southern California won the undisputed national football championship of the United States for 1931. According to Azzi Ratem... This calculation includes the Rose Bowl game.}}</ref> || Southern California |- | | 1932<ref name="1932AzziRatem">{{cite news |date=January 4, 1933 |title=New Grid Rating System Gives 1932 Title to Trojans |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tampa-times-1932-boand-system-azzi-r/136082541/ |work=The Tampa Times |agency=Associated Press |quote=Southern California 166; Michigan 158; Purdue 151}}</ref> || Southern California |- | | 1933 || Michigan |- | | 1934 || Minnesota |- | | 1935 || Minnesota |- | | 1936<ref name="AzziRatem1936">{{cite news |last=Quinn |first=Frank |date=September 9, 1937 |title=The National football rankings for the 1936 season under the Azzi Ratem system |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-butte-daily-post-1936-azzi-ratem-boa/135968157/ |work=The Butte Daily Post |access-date=November 29, 2023 |quote=Pittsburgh, 81.1; Minnesota, 79.6;}}</ref> || Pittsburgh |- | | 1937<ref name="AzziRatem1937">{{cite news |last=Boand |first=William F. |date=January 5, 1938 |title=1937 Grid Ratings — Azzi Ratems System — By William F. Boand, Chicago |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-butte-daily-post-1936-azzi-ratem-boa/135968157/ |work=Chattanooga Daily Times |access-date=November 29, 2023 |quote=1. Pittsburgh: 83.6; 2. California: 82.4; 3. Fordham: 79.3;}}</ref> || Pittsburgh |- | | 1938<ref name="AzziRatem1938">{{cite news |date=January 3, 1939 |title=Boand Gives Grid Top to Tennessee Eleven |agency=Chicago Tribune Press Service |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-butte-daily-post-1936-azzi-ratem-boa/135968157/ |work=Omaha World-Herald |access-date=November 30, 2023 |quote=1. Tennessee; 2. Notre Dame; 3. Texas Christian;}}</ref> || Tennessee |- | | 1939<ref>{{cite news|title=Azzi Ratem Calls Aggies No. 1 Team|newspaper=Lexington Herald-Leader|date=January 2, 1940|page=7|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/123278547/azzi-ratem-calls-aggies-no-1-team/|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> || Texas A&M |- | | 1940<ref>{{cite news|title=Azzi Ratem Puts Huskers 12th in Final Ranking|newspaper=Evening World-Herald|date=January 3, 1941|page=20|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/123291110/azzi-ratem-puts-huskers-12th-in-final/=|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> || Minnesota |- | | 1941<ref>{{cite news|title=Navy Ranked Second by the Azzi Ratem|newspaper=Evening World-Herald|date=December 2, 1941|page=16|url=|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> || Minnesota |- | | 1942 ||Ohio State |- | | 1943 || Notre Dame |- | | 1944 || Army |- | | 1945 || Army |- | | 1946 || Army<br>Notre Dame |- | | 1947 || Notre Dame <br>Michigan |- | | 1948 || Michigan |- | | 1949 || Notre Dame |- | | 1950 || Princeton |- | | 1951 || Georgia Tech<br>Illinois |- | | 1952 ||Michigan State |- | | 1953 || Notre Dame |- | | 1954<ref name="BoandTrophy1954">{{cite news |agency=International News Service |date=February 2, 1955 |title=The William F. Boand trophy |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/116781079/william-f-boand-trophy-azzi-ratem/ |work=The Baytown Sun |publication-place=Baytown, Texas |access-date=January 19, 2023 |quote=The William F. Boand trophy... in recognition of the Bucks as the No. 1 football team of 1954 according to Board's Azzi Ratem system. Byron F. Boyd, editor of the Football News, will make the presentation}}</ref> ||Ohio State |- | | 1955 ||Michigan State |- | | 1956 ||Oklahoma |- | | 1957 ||Ohio State |- | | 1958 ||Louisiana State |- | | 1959 ||Syracuse |- | | 1960 ||Iowa |- |}
===Boand trophy=== In February 1955, coach Woody Hayes was presented with the '''William F. Boand trophy''' in recognition of the 1954 Buckeyes' No. 1 selection in the year's final Azzi Ratem rankings.<ref name="BoandTrophy1954"/> The award was presented by Byron F. Boyd, editor of ''Football News'' magazine, which carried Boand's ratings.<ref name="BoandTrophy1954"/>
==See also== *NCAA Division I FBS national football championship
==Further reading== *{{Cite book| last = Boand| first = William F.| title = Azzi Ratem-Boand football ranking system: featuring famous coaches who have had top-rated teams in past years| publisher = Football News| year = 1950| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=x5DMGwAACAAJ}} *{{Cite book| last = Boand| first = William F.| title = National Football Champions| year = 1941| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=whSgHAAACAAJ}}
==References== <references>
<ref name="IllustratedFootballAnnual1937">{{cite book |editor-last=Reiss |editor-first=Malcolm |date=1937 |title=Illustrated Football Annual 1937 |url=https://archive.org/details/illustrated-football-annual-1937-boand |location=New York City |publisher=Fiction House, Inc. |chapter=Ranking the Champions; A Review of National Football Ranking for the Past 13 Years |pages=86–87 |quote=The final revision of the AZZI RATEM System was completed in the spring of 1936. This revision was used to re-rate previous years.}}</ref>
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