and also, 1945 for bama isn't mentioned but should be. undefeated and closest score was a 14 pt win, including a rose bowl win vs usc. army deserves the title, but based on the other mentions of undefeated teams in other years in this article, 45 bama deserves to be mentioned as well.1944 is similar for Ohio State
1997: Nebraska over Michigan, but since they didn’t face each other, claim it up. The Huskers played more final-ranked teams, won more decisively overall, and have the selector majority, but were punished in the AP Poll for the Flea Kicker against Missouri. Here’s what cancels out that controversy: Washington State being robbed of its final play against Michigan in the Rose Bowl. The Huskers probably would’ve been favored in a title game, too.Although they were only in position for that play because the WSU WR shoved Woodson down, then made the catch. The ref pulled the flag out for offensive PI, went to throw it, then stopped himself for some reason. It was as egregious a PI as you will ever see not called.
the best reason old guys sometimes romanticise about going back to the good old daze
man those would be fun schedules to see now.
I also think UCF should be able to call itself NC if they want. It doesn't hurt anyone.Ed Zachery
Have multiple NCs every year, fine with me. One for FCS, one for Div III, and 3 for FBS.
1973: Notre Dame beat Alabama in their No. 1 vs. No. 3 bowl, so ignore Bama’s claim to this season, unless you’d also like to ignore the game between the two at the end of the 2012 season. SRS considers once-tied Oklahoma the best non-World War II team ever, by the way.
The tie was 7-7 vs. #1 defending-champion USC in the Coliseum in the 2nd game of the season. Barry Switzer said later that he didn't know how good a team he had or he would have coached a lot less conservatively. Soph QB Steve Davis was in his second college football game. He would start in 34 of them, going 32-1-1. He had Joe Washington at LHB and Waymon Clark at FB. Each of them rushed for over 1,000 yards, and Davis rushed for almost 900 himself, while passing for over 900, quite a lot for an early wishbone team. RHB was by committee, but was productive.we've discussed it in another thread (oam card game thread i think) but 73 was one hell of a season for good teams.
The Selmon brothers were the core of the DL, with oldest brother Lucious at NG and Dewey and Lee Roy flanking him as the DTs. Rod Shoate was one of the linebackers in the 5-2 defense, and Jimbo Elrod and Duane Bacchus was the starting DEs.
That was a very good team. After squeaking past Miami, the Sooners ripped through the rest of the schedule, beating Texas 52-13. That was the first season of a staggered probation--TV was OK, but no bowl game was allowed. So the last time anyone could see OU on TV until the '75 (season) Orange Bowl vs. Michigan was the 27-0 hammering of Nebraska in which the Huskers crossed the 50 only once, and then fumbled at the end of that play at about the OU 45. After that game, DC Larry Lacewell said he'd take his defense and go fight the Russians.
On probation and with no bowl game, it's hard to make the case for an NC, but that was a very, very good 10-0-1 team. At the end of the year, I think that they were the best in all the land.
That is definitely the kind of season that could break the playoff as we know it. While some details could change (no more ties, and Michigan, Penn State, and Ohio State couldn't all finish the way they did here), you could have an unbeaten team out of each side of a major conference, playing close championship games, leaving 5 unbeaten or 1-loss teams, with a lot of others close by, and an independent and FCS team also in the ranks of unbeatens. Would that ever cause confusion (worst case would be 12-1 SEC west champion, having won the SEC, and Alabama at 11-1, with a close loss to the winner--thus not playing the SEC championship game, and the winner with an early loss to some other well-regarded team); a similar thing happens in another conference regarded at the time as one of the strongest, then a couple of unbeatens in the other major conferences, ND, and and FCS all coming in undefeated. Chaos!2008 comes to mind. pre-bowls, you had:
2008 comes to mind. pre-bowls, you had:I am sorry to say this, but OU lost the head-to-head with Texas.
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bigxii:
12-1 champ ou (lost to texas, beat tt)
11-1 texas (lost to tt, beat ou)
11-1 tt (lost to ou, beat texas).
a 3-way tie for the div crown, with ou getting nod by being one of the 2 ranked highest in bcs at time, and won that h2h matchup (with texas).
28-yard touchdown pass to Michael Crabtree with 1 second left made it 39-33 (after the XP). One wonders what Tech's chances would have been if they had to line up for a 45-yard field goal with that remaining 1 second.
Texas Tech beat Texas by one score (39-36) in Lubbock. And I think that Tech scored in the final few seconds to win that game.
I am sorry to say this, but OU lost the head-to-head with Texas.don't know how i screwed that up. i even got it right in the recap part. thanks for correction. how did ou win the tie breaker then? they were 2nd (behind texas) in bcs going into ccg weekend, unless the internet it wrong (can't be :)).
I'm even sorrier to say that Texas probably deserved to go to the CCG.
The 3-way tie went like this.
Texas beat OU by 10 (45-35) on a neutral site (the Cotton Bowl).
Texas Tech beat Texas by one score (39-36) in Lubbock. And I think that Tech scored in the final few seconds to win that game.
OU stomped Texas Tech (65-21) in Norman.
So Texas' only loss was not only the closest of the losses, it was on the road.
why CFB has so much trouble crowning a NC...
https://www.cfb51.com/pub/?p=29565
thoughts?
UCF has nobody to compare to if they claim a title. Nobody has claimed a title in any year they didn't win the AP or Coaches' poll since the early 1980s. This guy is talking out his butt. Because teams claimed titles in the 1920s based on a selector doesn't mean that's what's done today.
i see what i did, i looked at wrong poll. i looked at ap poll, not bcs.Yep.
in ap poll, texas was 3rd and ou 4th going into ccg games (tt 8th)
in coaches, ou was 2nd, texas 3rd, tt 8th.
harris, texas 3rd, ou 4th, tt 8th
but in bcs, ou was 2nd, texas 3rd, tt 7th. this is the one that the tie breaker used.