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If Notre Dame wanted to claim a NC in 1993 I’d get it.  Same record as FSU and beat them head to head, and actually beat them worse than the final score indicates.  I think people remember that being some great back and forth tussle and it wasn’t.  ND had a two score lead for a great deal of that game.

LSU in 2011. Finished 13-1 to Bama’s 12-1 and split the meetings with them.  Beat PAC 12 champ Oregon  and Big East Champ WVU in the OOC.  I’ll forever argue Ok St should have been LSU’s opponent in the BCS title game.

I’ll edit this somewhat:  ND did have a lot of crap on its schedule in 1993.  FSU did play a better schedule and actually played an extra game that season.

LSU in 2011. Finished 13-1 to Bama’s 12-1 and split the meetings with them.  Beat PAC 12 champ Oregon  and Big East Champ WVU in the OOC.  I’ll forever argue Ok St should have been LSU’s opponent in the BCS title game.

Maybe, but it would have been over by halftime.  Like 01 Miami-Nebraska over.

I leave it up to each school to make mythical claims on things, fine with me. 

Problem solved.

Alright, then Pitt was the 1980 NCs.  They got 3 first place votes, despite a loss.
Even better, 10-2 FSU got a first place vote in the final poll that year.  
They should claim it, too.

I leave it up to each school to make mythical claims on things, fine with me. 

Problem solved.

Honestly, Cincy, that’s pretty much exactly what they did from 19xx until 200x. Hell, ucf claims 2018 or sumptin. 

Anyone's free to claim anything, and the rest of humanity is free to mock them for it.

This isn't about freedoms, lol.  It's about your opinion.

If you think critically about it they know they will take some short term heat over it but long term nobody will care or even remember. Especially in the post playoff age. In the distant future, 30-50 years, it will seem so strange that there wasn’t a playoff to determine a true NC. After all, it wasn’t uncommon to have “official “ recognized multiple NC like Nebraska/ Michigan. 

In my OPINION, it just doesn't matter what some program claims, at all.  I could claim to have a mythical "friend" and no one would care about that either.

If mutiple schools want to claim one from 19xx, have at it.

Yup, it matters not at all, to me.  I know this started with Auburn of late, they basically made themselves into a joke, have at it.  Folks chuckled about it, lampooned them for it, and life goes on.  The same happened with Central FL.  So, I am fine with programs claiming their own mythical NCs and raising flags etc.  Maybe Vandy wants to claim one from 1895, OK with me.

The programs get abused for it, not respected.