re: Auburn May Add National Championships

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Ftr, 1913, 1983, and 2004 are nobrainers. Unlike mny of the titles Bama claims, AU has a stronger claim in each one of those years than any other team in the given yr.

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Auburn has a stronger claim than Chicago and Harvard in 1913? A stronger claim than Miami in 83 and a stronger claim than USC in 04? What years does Bama not have a strong claim?

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Ftr, 1913, 1983, and 2004 are nobrainers. Unlike mny of the titles Bama claims, AU has a stronger claim in each one of those years than any other team in the given yr.

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Yeah, all those crazy Alabama claims where the AP crowned Alabama the national champion.

You can scratch 1983 immediately off the list as a "stronger claim" because it is a carbon copy of Alabama's 1977 season. The similarities are pretty amazing in fact. BTW, Alabama doesn't claim 1977.

I can't speak for 1913 so who am I to question that claim. 2004 was a robbery only in the sense that Auburn started the year well behind Oklahoma in the polls and didn't have a fair shot in jumping an undefeated OU team that year. Auburn has a very strong argument for playing in the BCS title game that year but it's kind of hard to sell a championship in a year when literally no poll voted you #1 except the people's poll. In that sense, claiming 2004 Auburn is like Alabama claiming 1941 although Auburn obviously has a much much stronger claim to the 2004 title than Alabama does for 1941.