NCAA Division I FBS · 19982025 · Modern Championship Era

Near Saragossa, Alabama

The geographic center of championship home locations.33.9041° N, 87.4080° WView on Google Maps ↗

All recorded seasons: Underwood, Indiana (1869–2025)Selected center is 335.4 mi south-southwest from that benchmark.

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What shaped this epicenter

Established range

28Championship seasons

15Programs

AlabamaMost titles (6)

365 miMean spread

314 miMedian spread

1,767 miMaximum spread

Epicenter trail detailsHow the point moved as each season joined the selected range

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Champions in this rangeSeason, program, historical home location, and recognition basis

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How Champography calculates the point

Published dataset 2026.17 · wgs84-frechet-v1

Every coordinate shown above is calculated offline, validated, and published in a content-hashed static artifact. The browser reads stored results; it does not approximate historical epicenters while you move the slider.

The epicenter

The equal-season-weight geodesic Frechet mean of the selected championship season points, computed on the WGS84 ellipsoid. Exact season-specific venue centers are used where verified; early-era rows that still use a program home-reference point are labeled as such in the downloadable CSV.

Season weighting

Every championship season contributes a total weight of exactly 1.0. A split title never counts more than a sole title.

Split titles

Two recognized champions collapse to the WGS84 geodesic midpoint of their home locations; three or more collapse to their equal-weight WGS84 Frechet mean. Every NCAA-listed split season receives one total season vote.

Historical venues

The champion's home geography is used, never the championship-game or bowl site. The verified 1992-present records retain season-specific venues, including Alabama's 1992 two-venue construction and Miami's Orange Bowl history. Pre-1992 rows currently use a documented long-term home-field or historical-site reference where a complete venue-by-season chronology has not yet been hardened. Coordinate method and precision are public in the CSV so this limitation is auditable rather than hidden.

The modern policy

For 1998-present, the singular BCS championship-game or CFP champion counts. The 2003 AP recognition of USC is recorded but excluded by this policy; the 2003 champion point is LSU. The 2004 point is USC, whose BCS title was vacated in 2011 while its AP championship was retained; the status is recorded verbatim.

Place labels

A point inside a municipality is labelled with that municipality, decided by point-in-polygon against Census place boundaries rather than by proximity. GNIS stores a city as a single downtown point, so nearest-point resolution inside a large city found whichever neighbourhood, park or subdivision happened to sit closest, and a point in Lexington resolved to Hollywood, Kentucky. Where boundaries overlap the smallest containing place wins, as the most specific true answer. Outside every boundary the label names the nearest populated place in the official USGS GNIS extract, which includes small and unincorporated communities. GNIS also classes apartment blocks, public-housing projects and neighbourhood tracts as populated places, so where the nearest name is one the Census Bureau does not list, a Census-recognized place in the same state is preferred when it lies within twice the distance or three kilometres further; rural communities the Census Bureau also omits keep their own name rather than being replaced by a larger town miles away. Places GNIS marks as no longer existing are not published while any extant place lies within fifteen miles. GNIS covers the United States only, so a source-controlled Canadian table of 418 populated places supplies Canadian labels, compiled rather than read from an authoritative extract and accurate to about a kilometre. A county is stated only when the nearest place is within 15 km, since the county belongs to the place rather than to the point, and beyond 25 miles a label gives distance and bearing instead of saying 'near'. Boundary geometry is simplified to roughly 220 m, far below the size of any municipality.

Current verified coverage: Champion coverage spans 1869 through the latest completed season using the NCAA FBS Championship History inclusion table. Pre-1992 coordinate rows expose program_home_reference_point or historical_site_reference methods where season-specific venue chronology remains provisional.

Complete methodologyWeighting, venue policy, locality resolution, precomputation, QA, and limitations.How the math worksWGS84 geodesic mean, split-title construction, range lookup, and trails.Championship erasWhy each preset begins and ends where it does.Search the champions recordInspect every claim, venue, recognition basis, and source.

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WikipediaCollege football national championships in NCAA Division I FBSRetrieved 2026-07-23. Season-by-season champion and selector record for 1992-2024; corroborated against contemporaneous coverage

NCAAIndiana defeats Miami to win the College Football Playoff National Championship GameRetrieved 2026-07-23. 2025-season CFP championship result (Indiana 27 Miami 21 on January 19 2026)

Wikipedia1992 Alabama Crimson Tide football teamRetrieved 2026-07-23. Regular-season home venue split: Bryant-Denny (Vanderbilt South Carolina Ole Miss) and Legion Field (Southern Miss Louisiana Tech Auburn); rolltide.com 1992 archives cited therein

WikipediaMiami Orange BowlRetrieved 2026-07-23. Coordinates 25.778 -80.220; Miami Hurricanes home 1937-2007; demolished 2008; site now loanDepot park

WikipediaMemorial Stadium (Indiana University)Retrieved 2026-07-23. Coordinates 39.18083 -86.52556; north-south field alignment

WikipediaStadium article infobox coordinates (per-venue pages)Retrieved 2026-07-23. Stadium-center reference coordinates for long-tenured current venues; recorded precision 100 m; QA cross-checks each venue against its GeoNames city point

WikipediaProgram pages for champion teamsRetrieved 2026-07-23. Program city/state and continuity; none of the covered programs changed name or relocated 1992-2025

NCAAFBS Football Championship HistoryRetrieved 2026-07-25. NCAA season-by-season FBS championship history table, used as the published inclusion policy for 1869-1991.

Wikipedia / map verificationSHI StadiumRetrieved 2026-07-25. Program home-field or historical stadium-site reference. Public CSV exposes coordinate method and precision; season-specific hardening remains open for early eras.

Wikipedia / map verificationYale BowlRetrieved 2026-07-25. Program home-field or historical stadium-site reference. Public CSV exposes coordinate method and precision; season-specific hardening remains open for early eras.

Wikipedia / map verificationHarvard StadiumRetrieved 2026-07-25. Program home-field or historical stadium-site reference. Public CSV exposes coordinate method and precision; season-specific hardening remains open for early eras.

Wikipedia / map verificationFranklin FieldRetrieved 2026-07-25. Program home-field or historical stadium-site reference. Public CSV exposes coordinate method and precision; season-specific hardening remains open for early eras.

Wikipedia / map verificationFisher StadiumRetrieved 2026-07-25. Program home-field or historical stadium-site reference. Public CSV exposes coordinate method and precision; season-specific hardening remains open for early eras.

Wikipedia / map verificationMichigan StadiumRetrieved 2026-07-25. Program home-field or historical stadium-site reference. Public CSV exposes coordinate method and precision; season-specific hardening remains open for early eras.

Wikipedia / map verificationStagg Field historical siteRetrieved 2026-07-25. Program home-field or historical stadium-site reference. Public CSV exposes coordinate method and precision; season-specific hardening remains open for early eras.

Wikipedia / map verificationTiger StadiumRetrieved 2026-07-25. Program home-field or historical stadium-site reference. Public CSV exposes coordinate method and precision; season-specific hardening remains open for early eras.

Wikipedia / map verificationPitt Stadium historical siteRetrieved 2026-07-25. Program home-field or historical stadium-site reference. Public CSV exposes coordinate method and precision; season-specific hardening remains open for early eras.

Wikipedia / map verificationBeaver StadiumRetrieved 2026-07-25. Program home-field or historical stadium-site reference. Public CSV exposes coordinate method and precision; season-specific hardening remains open for early eras.

Wikipedia / map verificationMichie StadiumRetrieved 2026-07-25. Program home-field or historical stadium-site reference. Public CSV exposes coordinate method and precision; season-specific hardening remains open for early eras.

Wikipedia / map verificationSchoellkopf FieldRetrieved 2026-07-25. Program home-field or historical stadium-site reference. Public CSV exposes coordinate method and precision; season-specific hardening remains open for early eras.

Wikipedia / map verificationBobby Dodd StadiumRetrieved 2026-07-25. Program home-field or historical stadium-site reference. Public CSV exposes coordinate method and precision; season-specific hardening remains open for early eras.

Wikipedia / map verificationMemorial StadiumRetrieved 2026-07-25. Program home-field or historical stadium-site reference. Public CSV exposes coordinate method and precision; season-specific hardening remains open for early eras.

Wikipedia / map verificationNotre Dame StadiumRetrieved 2026-07-25. Program home-field or historical stadium-site reference. Public CSV exposes coordinate method and precision; season-specific hardening remains open for early eras.

Wikipedia / map verificationKyle FieldRetrieved 2026-07-25. Program home-field or historical stadium-site reference. Public CSV exposes coordinate method and precision; season-specific hardening remains open for early eras.

Wikipedia / map verificationCalifornia Memorial StadiumRetrieved 2026-07-25. Program home-field or historical stadium-site reference. Public CSV exposes coordinate method and precision; season-specific hardening remains open for early eras.

Wikipedia / map verificationBryant-Denny Stadium referenceRetrieved 2026-07-25. Program home-field or historical stadium-site reference. Public CSV exposes coordinate method and precision; season-specific hardening remains open for early eras.

Wikipedia / map verificationStanford StadiumRetrieved 2026-07-25. Program home-field or historical stadium-site reference. Public CSV exposes coordinate method and precision; season-specific hardening remains open for early eras.

Wikipedia / map verificationLos Angeles Memorial ColiseumRetrieved 2026-07-25. Program home-field or historical stadium-site reference. Public CSV exposes coordinate method and precision; season-specific hardening remains open for early eras.

Wikipedia / map verificationMinnesota home-field referenceRetrieved 2026-07-25. Program home-field or historical stadium-site reference. Public CSV exposes coordinate method and precision; season-specific hardening remains open for early eras.

Wikipedia / map verificationAmon G. Carter StadiumRetrieved 2026-07-25. Program home-field or historical stadium-site reference. Public CSV exposes coordinate method and precision; season-specific hardening remains open for early eras.

Wikipedia / map verificationOhio StadiumRetrieved 2026-07-25. Program home-field or historical stadium-site reference. Public CSV exposes coordinate method and precision; season-specific hardening remains open for early eras.

Wikipedia / map verificationOklahoma Memorial StadiumRetrieved 2026-07-25. Program home-field or historical stadium-site reference. Public CSV exposes coordinate method and precision; season-specific hardening remains open for early eras.

Wikipedia / map verificationNeyland StadiumRetrieved 2026-07-25. Program home-field or historical stadium-site reference. Public CSV exposes coordinate method and precision; season-specific hardening remains open for early eras.

Wikipedia / map verificationSpartan StadiumRetrieved 2026-07-25. Program home-field or historical stadium-site reference. Public CSV exposes coordinate method and precision; season-specific hardening remains open for early eras.

Wikipedia / map verificationMaryland StadiumRetrieved 2026-07-25. Program home-field or historical stadium-site reference. Public CSV exposes coordinate method and precision; season-specific hardening remains open for early eras.

Wikipedia / map verificationJordan-Hare StadiumRetrieved 2026-07-25. Program home-field or historical stadium-site reference. Public CSV exposes coordinate method and precision; season-specific hardening remains open for early eras.

Wikipedia / map verificationKinnick StadiumRetrieved 2026-07-25. Program home-field or historical stadium-site reference. Public CSV exposes coordinate method and precision; season-specific hardening remains open for early eras.

Wikipedia / map verificationArchbold/Dome home-site referenceRetrieved 2026-07-25. Program home-field or historical stadium-site reference. Public CSV exposes coordinate method and precision; season-specific hardening remains open for early eras.

Wikipedia / map verificationVaught-Hemingway StadiumRetrieved 2026-07-25. Program home-field or historical stadium-site reference. Public CSV exposes coordinate method and precision; season-specific hardening remains open for early eras.

Wikipedia / map verificationTexas Memorial StadiumRetrieved 2026-07-25. Program home-field or historical stadium-site reference. Public CSV exposes coordinate method and precision; season-specific hardening remains open for early eras.

Wikipedia / map verificationRazorback StadiumRetrieved 2026-07-25. Program home-field or historical stadium-site reference. Public CSV exposes coordinate method and precision; season-specific hardening remains open for early eras.

Wikipedia / map verificationLaVell Edwards StadiumRetrieved 2026-07-25. Program home-field or historical stadium-site reference. Public CSV exposes coordinate method and precision; season-specific hardening remains open for early eras.

Wikipedia / map verificationMiami Orange Bowl historical siteRetrieved 2026-07-25. Program home-field or historical stadium-site reference. Public CSV exposes coordinate method and precision; season-specific hardening remains open for early eras.

Wikipedia / map verificationSanford StadiumRetrieved 2026-07-25. Program home-field or historical stadium-site reference. Public CSV exposes coordinate method and precision; season-specific hardening remains open for early eras.

Wikipedia / map verificationHusky StadiumRetrieved 2026-07-25. Program home-field or historical stadium-site reference. Public CSV exposes coordinate method and precision; season-specific hardening remains open for early eras.

Wikipedia / map verificationFolsom FieldRetrieved 2026-07-25. Program home-field or historical stadium-site reference. Public CSV exposes coordinate method and precision; season-specific hardening remains open for early eras.

WikipediaIndividual ballpark articles (Fenway Park, Yankee Stadium, Ebbets Field, Polo Grounds, Forbes Field, Shibe Park, Sportsman's Park, Griffith Stadium, League Park, Comiskey Park, Crosley Field, Tiger Stadium, Memorial Stadium, Shea Stadium, Oakland Coliseum, Dodger Stadium, and every other cited home ballpark)Retrieved 2026-08-05. Per-ballpark address/site, opening-closing year range, and geocoordinates; cross-checked against SABR ballpark biographies for demolished sites.

WikipediaHistoric college football ground articles and infobox coordinatesRetrieved 2026-08-06. Published coordinates for demolished pre-1930 home grounds (State Field, New Beaver Field, California Field, Denny Field, Cartier Field, Archbold Stadium, Pitt Stadium, Yale Field, Hamilton Park, Memorial Stadium Minnesota, Palmer Stadium, The Plain, Illinois Field). Replaces successor-stadium coordinates previously carried on pre-construction seasons.

ChampographyHistoric ground sites derived from documented modern occupantsRetrieved 2026-08-06. No published coordinate exists for these grounds. Each point is derived from a sourced coordinate for the building or quadrangle documented as occupying the site, and is recorded at 100-250 m precision to reflect that. Covers Regents Field, Jarvis Field, Holmes Field, Harvard pre-1903 Soldiers Field, University Field Princeton, March Field Lafayette, Rutgers College Field, Forbes Field reuse for Pitt.