| 2021 |
Georgia |
| 2020 |
Alabama |
| 2019 |
LSU |
| 2018 |
Clemson |
| 2017 |
Alabama |
| 2016 |
Clemson |
| 2015 |
Alabama |
| 2014 |
Ohio State |
| 2013 |
Florida State |
| 2012 |
Alabama |
| 2011 |
Alabama |
| 2010 |
Auburn |
| 2009 |
Alabama |
| 2008 |
Florida |
| 2007 |
LSU |
| 2006 |
Florida |
| 2005 |
Texas |
| 2004 |
Southern California* |
| 2003 |
LSU |
| 2002 |
Ohio State |
| 2001 |
Miami (Fla.) |
| 2000 |
Oklahoma |
| 1999 |
Florida State |
| 1998 |
Tennessee |
| 1997 |
Michigan, Nebraska |
| 1996 |
Florida |
| 1995 |
Nebraska |
| 1994 |
Nebraska |
| 1993 |
Florida St. |
| 1992 |
Alabama |
| 1991 |
Washington, Miami (Fla.) |
| 1990 |
Colorado, Georgia Tech |
| 1989 |
Miami (Fla.) |
| 1988 |
Notre Dame |
| 1987 |
Miami (Fla.) |
| 1986 |
Penn St. |
| 1985 |
Oklahoma |
| 1984 |
Brigham Young |
| 1983 |
Miami (Fla.) |
| 1982 |
Penn St. |
| 1981 |
Clemson |
| 1980 |
Georgia |
| 1979 |
Alabama |
| 1978 |
Alabama, Southern California |
| 1977 |
Notre Dame |
| 1976 |
Pittsburgh |
| 1975 |
Oklahoma |
| 1974 |
Southern California, Oklahoma |
| 1973 |
Notre Dame, Alabama |
| 1972 |
Southern California |
| 1971 |
Nebraska |
| 1970 |
Nebraska, Texas, Ohio St. |
| 1969 |
Texas |
| 1968 |
Ohio St. |
| 1967 |
Southern California |
| 1966 |
Notre Dame, Michigan St. |
| 1965 |
Michigan St., Alabama |
| 1964 |
Alabama, Arkansas, Notre Dame |
| 1963 |
Texas |
| 1962 |
Southern California |
| 1961 |
Alabama, Ohio St. |
| 1960 |
Minnesota, Mississippi |
| 1959 |
Syracuse |
| 1958 |
Iowa, LSU |
| 1957 |
Ohio St., Auburn |
| 1956 |
Oklahoma |
| 1955 |
Oklahoma |
| 1954 |
UCLA, Ohio St. |
| 1953 |
Maryland |
| 1952 |
Michigan St. |
| 1951 |
Tennessee |
| 1950 |
Oklahoma |
| 1949 |
Notre Dame |
| 1948 |
Michigan |
| 1947 |
Notre Dame |
| 1946 |
Notre Dame |
| 1945 |
Army |
| 1944 |
Army |
| 1943 |
Notre Dame |
| 1942 |
Ohio St. |
| 1941 |
Minnesota |
| 1940 |
Minnesota |
| 1939 |
Texas A&M |
| 1938 |
Texas Christian |
| 1937 |
Pittsburgh |
| 1936 |
Minnesota |
| 1935 |
Minnesota |
| 1934 |
Minnesota |
| 1933 |
Michigan |
| 1932 |
Southern California |
| 1931 |
Southern California |
| 1930 |
Alabama, Notre Dame |
| 1929 |
Notre Dame |
| 1928 |
Georgia Tech. |
| 1927 |
Illinois, Yale |
| 1926 |
Alabama, Stanford |
| 1925 |
Alabama |
| 1924 |
Notre Dame |
| 1923 |
Illinois, Michigan |
| 1922 |
California, Cornell, Princeton |
| 1921 |
California, Cornell |
| 1920 |
California |
| 1919 |
Harvard, Illinois, Notre Dame, Texas A&M |
| 1918 |
Michigan, Pittsburgh |
| 1917 |
Georgia Tech. |
| 1916 |
Pittsburgh |
| 1915 |
Cornell |
| 1914 |
Army |
| 1913 |
Harvard |
| 1912 |
Harvard, Penn St. |
| 1911 |
Penn St., Princeton |
| 1910 |
Harvard, Pittsburgh |
| 1909 |
Yale |
| 1908 |
LSU, Pennsylvania |
| 1907 |
Yale |
| 1906 |
Princeton |
| 1905 |
Chicago |
| 1904 |
Michigan, Pennsylvania |
| 1903 |
Michigan, Princeton |
| 1902 |
Michigan |
| 1901 |
Michigan |
| 1900 |
Yale |
| 1899 |
Harvard |
| 1898 |
Harvard |
| 1897 |
Pennsylvania |
| 1896 |
Lafayette, Princeton |
| 1895 |
Pennsylvania |
| 1894 |
Yale |
| 1893 |
Princeton |
| 1892 |
Yale |
| 1891 |
Yale |
| 1890 |
Harvard |
| 1889 |
Princeton |
| 1888 |
Yale |
| 1887 |
Yale |
| 1886 |
Yale |
| 1885 |
Princeton |
| 1884 |
Yale |
| 1883 |
Yale |
| 1882 |
Yale |
| 1881 |
Yale |
| 1880 |
Princeton, Yale |
| 1879 |
Princeton |
| 1878 |
Princeton |
| 1877 |
Yale |
| 1876 |
Yale |
| 1875 |
Harvard |
| 1874 |
Yale |
| 1873 |
Princeton |
| 1872 |
Princeton |
| 1871 |
None selected |
| 1870 |
Princeton |
| 1869 |
Princeton, Rutgers |