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re: Alabama with only 8 NC's
Posted on 12/31/11 at 6:19 pm to Wolfhound45
Posted on 12/31/11 at 6:19 pm to Wolfhound45
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You have to admit, even if they did not play in a bowl, 44 to 46 were kind of "Army" years.
Seriously.
Why do you think that Bama doesn't claim it. These were War World II years and the country was behind our armed forces.
Bama was actually named the 1945 National Champions by the National Championship Foundation, but they don't count it even though it makes more sense to me than the 1941 title does.
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Posted on 1/1/12 at 2:25 am to jatebe
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These aren't local newspapers and yeah there were national gridiron champions in those days too.
Awesome find.
Posted on 1/1/12 at 2:28 am to Tiger n Miami AU83
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AU recognizes two. And AU was clearly the #1, best and most deserving team in the United States both years.
In 57' you didn't even play in a bowl because of bowl sanctions.
Posted on 1/1/12 at 2:32 am to King
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is fine and works with about every other fricking sport in the world....
CFB is my favorite sport. How about you? Watch the next big NFL game and tell me if you can hear the snap count by the QB. You can't do that in CFB because of the fan noise. The reason is the way we conduct our sport. Anything but a +1 would ruin it, IMO.
Posted on 1/1/12 at 2:34 am to Tiger n Miami AU83
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And I gave them credit for 1925.
Ok, Bama is down to 5 legit titles
Well what about 1930&1934? We did the same thing.
Posted on 1/1/12 at 2:38 am to CapstoneGrad06
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Exactly my point. It starts to prove the idea that bowls were only an exhibition before the change in the voting methods in 1967 by the AP, and later by the UPI/Coaches.
The AP changed in 1965. Just in time for our NC that year.
Posted on 1/1/12 at 2:47 am to CapstoneGrad06
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As for this thread, it is an endless argument. Alabama has 8 awarded poll titles. Deal with it.
I would never give up 25',26', 30' or 35'. We won the Southern Conference and then the Rose bowl (besides the tie in 26'). Those games held huge historical significance for southern FB. They put us all on the map back then and gave us a source of southern pride that hadn't felt since before the civil war. It was the way it was done back then and listed in the press of the day. I can give up 41' I don't know why we keep that one but the rest are important. We have 12 in my book and about to get #13.
Posted on 1/1/12 at 2:54 am to bama1959
If you are going to try and boom people, get your fricking facts straight. LSU put southern football on the map in 1908 with what is recorded as one of the best college football seasons in history. Almost 20 years before your supposed timeline.
Posted on 1/1/12 at 3:40 am to LaBornNRaised
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If you are going to try and boom people, get your fricking facts straight. LSU put southern football on the map in 1908
By doing what? LSU didn't play a national schedule nor did it go out to Cal and win the Rose Bowl, like Bama did.
Posted on 1/1/12 at 3:47 am to LaBornNRaised
Against the likes of New Orleans YMGC, Jackson Barracks, and the Haskell Institute? I think LSU deserves claim over that season, but LSU didn't play but one team outside the region to showcase southern football. That was Haskell from Lawrence, Kansas.
If we're talking about the region being taken seriously for their football, then one of the first significant victories by a southern team was Alabama's 1922 win over Penn in Philadelphia. Though that didn't stop the doubters. Southern football wasn't taken seriously until a team from the south defeated a team from the North/west in the Rose Bowl. Alabama, Tennessee, and Georgia had great success in the Rose Bowl. Enough that it was eventually closed off to southern teams.
If we're talking about the region being taken seriously for their football, then one of the first significant victories by a southern team was Alabama's 1922 win over Penn in Philadelphia. Though that didn't stop the doubters. Southern football wasn't taken seriously until a team from the south defeated a team from the North/west in the Rose Bowl. Alabama, Tennessee, and Georgia had great success in the Rose Bowl. Enough that it was eventually closed off to southern teams.
Posted on 1/1/12 at 4:08 am to Bricktop
Even with 8 they're doing damned good on the tradition front.. That's why it baffles me they claimed more, there was zero need for it..
Posted on 1/1/12 at 5:15 am to Bricktop
It's all meaningless until there is a playoff system.
Posted on 1/1/12 at 5:31 am to Aubie Spr96
It has always puzzled me why a program like Bama embelishes an already great history. It makes us question all their championships.
Posted on 1/1/12 at 8:00 am to LaBornNRaised
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If you are going to try and boom people, get your fricking facts straight. LSU put southern football on the map in 1908 with what is recorded as one of the best college football seasons in history.
Yeah, right. Put the crack pipe down son. You're going to hurt yourself with that stuff.
Posted on 1/1/12 at 8:18 am to bama1959
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Awesome find.
Not as awesome when you actually read the third one.
Posted on 1/1/12 at 8:23 am to Bricktop
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Alabama with only 8 NC's
oh thats it?
Posted on 1/1/12 at 8:38 am to CapstoneGrad06
Alabama has 8, some tainted or questionable, but they have 8. The 13 is BS because bammers do not want other schools to use the same criteria.
N.dame has 9 and if Bama wins thus year they will tie ND. I wish Auburn had more than 2. 8 is greater than 2.
N.dame has 9 and if Bama wins thus year they will tie ND. I wish Auburn had more than 2. 8 is greater than 2.
Posted on 1/1/12 at 10:20 am to LaBornNRaised
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If you are going to try and boom people, get your fricking facts straight. LSU put southern football on the map in 1908
Sports Illustrated - They all laughed when Alabama went to the 1926 Rose Bowl, but when the game was over, nobody looked down on southern teams again
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when Alabama was picked to play in the 1926 Rose Bowl game against the mighty University of Washington football team, it was considered by many to be the worst mismatch in the history of the game. Alabama had a good enough record—nine straight wins—but football experts in the '20s all knew that southern football was barely on a level with junior varsity play in the rest of the country.
As it turned out, Alabama won-in the most thrilling Rose Bowl game ever played-and no one ever again sneered at southern football. Southern teams played in 13 of the next 20 Rose Bowl games, and today teams from the South dominate the big business of bowl games across the nation.
Posted on 1/1/12 at 10:24 am to allin2010
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N.dame has 9 and if Bama wins thus year they will tie ND.
Wrong. Alabama and Notre Dame are tied with 8 apiece. If Bama wins this year, we will lead with the poll era national championships.
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