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Yeah, we don't need to see any more conference realignment threads.  I hated those.

I just want 11 school conferences with 10 conference games and no Dr. Pepper nonsense. Is this too much to ask?

it's not too much to ask

I just want 11 school conferences with 10 conference games and no Dr. Pepper nonsense. Is this too much to ask?

I dunno, some of those Dr Pepper commercials are pretty funny.

Commercials seem to be more repetitive now than they were 5 years ago, maybe I'm just old.  I see the same commercial break after break.

The Dr. Pepper commercials are effective simply because we remember them.

My opinion on claimed NCs has always been, if the NC was awarded to the team immediately after the season (or after the bowls once the wire services began doing that in the late 60s/early 70s), then you claim it.  If it's from some retroactive system that just began mathematical analysis and decided to recognize various different national champion teams from years long past, then you don't.  In an effort to "fit in" with the SEC, the Aggies just recently decided to recognize such retroactive titles from 1927 and 1919.  Not a single player from either of those two teams was alive when these national championships were "awarded" to them.  In my opinion, they are not legitimate.

However, arguing about stupid stuff like that is part of the unique, wacky craziness that is College Football. 

I thought you might enjoy this write-up on the LSU 1908 season-that-wasn't.  We've been doing these all off-season, making it to just past WWII before the season got going.  I really wish fans of other teams would take on projects like these because this stuff is fascinating to me.  I'd read them no matter what team they were about.  College sports as we know it was a completely different world back then, and it's hard to envision.  

Auburn, however, has always been Auburn, it appears.  

If you just ignore five points for a TD, four for a FG, the field being 110 yards long, us having only one player who weighed over 200 lbs., the flying wedge being the dominant strategy, and the games costing 50 cents, then yes, pretty much like today, I guess.

One thing I couldn't help but notice in getting in to all this....  We played our first game in 1893, a 34-0 loss to Tulane.  Actually, it wasn't really Tulane.  Charles Coates, a chemistry professor at LSU, wanted to broaden the athletics on campus and came up with the idea of a football team from his time at Johns Hopkins.  He rounded up LSU's first squad mainly from the student ROTC corps, but the Tulane team was largely composed of alumni and members of the Southern Athletic Club.  

As you can see, straight from the jump we've had issues with commerce and eligibility 

It was far more of a recreational club than a competitive athletic team like we think about today.  Like most schools it's tough to pin down when it went from vague frivolity to something more.  I know LSU claimed its first conference title in 1896 after a 6-0 effort to the top of a very loosely organized SIAA conference.  We shared the title with a 4-0 Georgia team coached by some dude named Pop Warner.