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Five college football programs that are very close to being blue bloods

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This week, ESPN.com unveils its rankings of college football blue blood programs, and those at the top are exactly the ones you would expect.

Feel free to nitpick whether Alabama should be ahead of USC, or whether Notre Dame and Michigan are too high. But here's the more interesting debate: Which five programs are most likely to become true blue bloods in the near future?