College Football: 14 Power 5 teams who will never win a national title

Sep 5, 2015; Cincinnati, OH, USA; A detailed view of the American Athletic Conference logo on a field marker at Nippert Stadium. The Bearcats won 52-10. Mandatory Credit: Aaron Doster-USA TODAY Sports

Starting with the Group of Five conference, there are a great number of teams who simply aren’t going to rise to the level of a national title contender. Many of these programs will probably never see a playoff game or New Year’s Six bowl game.

There are a few Group of Five programs that do stand a chance of winning a title, especially if they eventually move into a Power-5 Conference, including Boise State, Northern Illinois, Cincinnati and Houston.

There are some other fine programs here, but none of them will be able to challenge for an FBS national championship.

AMERICAN:

Temple, South Florida, UConn, East Carolina, UCF, Memphis, Tulsa, Tulane,

C-USA:

Western Kentucky, Middle Tennessee, Florida International, Florida Atlantic, Old Dominion, Charlotte, Louisiana Tech, Rice, UTEP, Texas San Antonio, North Texas

MAC:

Bowling Green, Buffalo, Ohio, Kent State, Akron, UMass, Miami (OH), Western Michigan, Toledo, Central Michigan, Ball State, Eastern Michigan

MWC:

Utah State, Air Force, New Mexico, Colorado State, Wyoming, San Diego State, Nevada, San Jose State, UNLV, Fresno State, Hawaii

Sun Belt:

Arkansas State, Appalachian State, Louisiana-Lafayette, Georgia Southern, Idaho, South Alabama, Texas State, Georgia State, Troy, New Mexico State, Louisiana-Monroe

Now looking at the Power-5 conferences, here are 14 teams who will never hoist whatever the national championship trophy happens to be at any given time.

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