All available historyNear Phil Campbell, Alabama1992–2025
NCAA Division I FBS
19982025 · Modern Championship Era
Near Carbon Hill, Alabama
The derived epicenter of college football champions across the selected season range.
33.9041° N, 87.4080° W
Movement from benchmark34.3 mi south-southeastSelected range vs. benchmark
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What shaped this epicenter
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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 2026.1 · 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 champions' historically correct home playing-surface locations, computed on the WGS84 ellipsoid.
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. The 1997 season (Michigan AP, Nebraska Coaches) is the split season in this dataset.
Historical venues
The champion's primary home playing surface for that championship season, never the championship-game site, a bowl site, or a later stadium. 1992 Alabama split its regular-season home slate 3-3 between Bryant-Denny Stadium and Legion Field, so its season location is the equal-weight (geodesic midpoint) construction of the two surfaces, flagged multi_venue_equal_weight. 2001 Miami is placed at the demolished Miami Orange Bowl, its home through 2007.
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
Labels resolve offline against the GeoNames cities1000 populated-place gazetteer (CC-BY 4.0). This release emits qualified nearest-place and rural-area labels only; it never claims that a point lies inside a municipal boundary, because polygon containment data is a documented deferred input. Bearings read from the named place toward the epicenter.
Current verified coverage: Coverage begins with the 1992 Bowl Coalition season. Pre-1992 eras are configured but disabled pending the historical dataset extension.
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.