The Associated Press wanted to find a way to rank every college football program against each other. Luckily, it has a long-running metric that can help with those calculations right in its back pocket.

The ranked list of 100 programs, released Tuesday by the AP, is the organization's first list putting schools against each other using all-time success as a measuring stick.

"College football is rich with history, and the AP poll is a unique measure of how the sport has changed through time," deputy sports editor Noreen Gillespie said prior to the list's release. "The all-time list lets fans interact with that history, and debate how the nation's top programs fared over time."

According to the AP, the rankings were based on total poll appearances, number of times ranked No. 1 and AP national championships. The AP poll started on Oct. 19, 1936, with 20 teams before getting reduced to 10 teams (1961-67) and then expanding back to 20 in 1968. The AP Top 25, as we know it today, started with the 1989 football season.

Check out the 1-100 list below, but head over to the AP for breakdowns of the top 25 teams and point differentials for the remaining 75.

1.Ohio State: 77.24 percent of all AP polls
2. Oklahoma: 71.08 percent of all AP polls
3. Notre Dame: 69.45 percent of all AP polls
4. Alabama: 67.54 percent of all AP polls
5. Southern California: 67.36 percent of all AP polls
6. Nebraska
7. Michigan
8. Texas
9. Florida State
10. Florida
11. LSU
12. Penn State
13. Miami (FL)
14. Tennessee
15. Georgia
16. Auburn
17. UCLA
18. Texas A&M
19. Michigan State
20. Washington
21. Arkansas
22. Clemson
23. Pittsburgh
24. Wisconsin
25. Iowa
26. Georgia Tech
27. Colorado
28. Oregon
29. Ole Miss
30. Arizona State
31. Virginia Tech
32. Stanford
33. West Virginia
34. BYU
35. Missouri
36. Purdue
37. Minnesota
38. North Carolina
39. TCU
40. Maryland
41. Syracuse
42. Army
43. Oklahoma State
44. Kansas State
45. Cal
46. Mississippi State
47. Baylor
48. South Carolina
49. Houston
50. Northwestern
51. Illinois
52. Virginia
53. Duke
54. Arizona
55. SMU
56. NC State
57. Boston College
58. Texas Tech
59. Washington State
60. Navy
61. Boise State
62. Louisville
63. Kansas
64. Utah
65. Oregon State
66. Penn
67. Air Force
68. Kentucky
69. Rice
70. Tulane
71. Wyoming
T-72. Indiana
T-72. Fresno State
T-72. Southern Miss
T-72. Cornell
76. Toledo
T-77. Santa Clara
T-77. Tulsa
T-77. Colorado State
80. Wake Forest
T-81. Cincinnati
T-81. Miami (OH)
T-83. Fordham
T-83. Iowa State
85. Holy Cross
86. Rutgers
87. Dartmouth
88. East Carolina
89. Vanderbilt
90. Yale
T-91. Princeton
T-91. Marshall
93. Hawaii
94. South Florida
95. Villanova
96. Northern Illinois
97. Duquesne
98. Iowa Pre-Flight
T-99. Columbia
T-99. William & Mary
T-99. Nevada
T-99. Bowling Green
The 2016 preseason AP Top 25 will be released on Aug. 21.