Well here is nearly a century of football national champions.

Get your magnifying glass out so you can find the southern schools, you'll need it.

National Champions from 1869 to 1960

1960 Minnesota (AP, NFF, UPI), Ole Miss (FWAA) Joe Bellino
1959 Syracuse (AP, FWAA, NFF, UPI) Billy Cannon
1958 LSU (AP, UPI), Iowa (FWAA) Pete Dawkins
1957 Ohio State (FWAA, UPI), Auburn (AP) John David Crow
1956 Oklahoma (AP, FWAA, UPI) Paul Hornung
1955 Oklahoma (AP, FWAA, UPI) Howard Cassady
1954 UCLA (FWAA, UPI), Ohio State (AP) Alan Ameche
1953 Maryland (AP, UPI) Johnny Lattner
1952 Michigan State (AP, UPI) Billy Vessels
1951 Tennessee (AP, UPI) Dick Kazmaier
1950 Oklahoma (AP, UPI) Vic Janowicz
1949 Notre Dame (AP) Leon Hart
1948 Michigan (AP) Doak Walker
1947 Notre Dame (AP) Johnny Lujack
Year National Champion Heisman Trophy
1946 Notre Dame (AP) Glenn Davis
1945 Army (AP) Doc Blanchard
1944 Army (AP) Les Horvath
1943 Notre Dame (AP) Angelo Bertelli
1942 Ohio State (AP) Frank Sinkwich
1941 Minnesota (AP) Bruce Smith
1940 Minnesota (AP) Tom Harmon
1939 Texas A&M (AP) Nile Kinnick
1938 Texas Christian (AP) Davey O'Brien
1937 Pitt (AP) Clint Frank
1936 Minnesota (AP) Larry Kelley
1935 Minnesota (HELMS, NCF) Jay Berwanger
1934 Minnesota (HELMS, NCF)
1933 Michigan (HELMS, NCF)
1932 USC (HELMS, NCF)
1931 USC (HELMS, NCF)
1930 Notre Dame (HELMS, NCF)
1929 Notre Dame (HELMS, NCF)
1928 Georgia Tech (HELMS, NCF)
1927 Illinois (HELMS, NCF)
1926 Alabama (HELMS, NCF), Stanford (HELMS, NCF)
1925 Alabama (HELMS, NCF)
1924 Notre Dame (HELMS, NCF)
1923 Illinois (HELMS, NCF), Michigan (NCF)
1922 Princeton (NCF), California (NCF), Cornell (HELMS)
Year National Champion Heisman Trophy
1921 Cornell (HELMS, NCF)
1920 California (HELMS, NCF)
1919 Harvard (HELMS, NCF), Texas A&M (NCF), Notre Dame (NCF)
1918 Pitt (HELMS, NCF), Michigan (NCF)
1917 Georgia Tech (HELMS, NCF)
1916 Pitt (HELMS, NCF)
1915 Cornell (HELMS, NCF)
1914 Army (HELMS, NCF)
1913 Harvard (HELMS, NCF)
1912 Harvard (HELMS, NCF), Penn State (NCF)
1911 Princeton (HELMS, NCF), Penn State (NCF)
1910 Harvard (HELMS, NCF), Pitt (NCF)
1909 Yale (HELMS, NCF)
1908 Pennsylvania (HELMS, NCF), LSU (NCF)
1907 Yale (HELMS, NCF)
1906 Princeton (HELMS, NCF)
1905 Chicago (HELMS, NCF)
1904 Pennsylvania (HELMS, NCF), Michigan (NCF)
1903 Princeton (HELMS, NCF), Michigan (NCF)
1902 Michigan (HELMS, NCF)
1901 Michigan (HELMS, NCF)
1900 Yale (HELMS, NCF)
1899 Harvard (HELMS, NCF)
1898 Harvard (HELMS, NCF)
1897 Pennsylvania (HELMS, NCF)
Year National Champion Heisman Trophy
1896 Princeton (HELMS, NCF), Lafayette (NCF)
1895 Pennsylvania (HELMS, NCF)
1894 Yale (HELMS, NCF)
1893 Princeton (HELMS, NCF)
1892 Yale (HELMS, NCF)
1891 Yale (HELMS, NCF)
1890 Harvard (HELMS, NCF)
1889 Princeton (HELMS, NCF)
1888 Yale (HELMS, NCF)
1887 Yale (HELMS, NCF)
1886 Yale (HELMS, NCF)
1885 Princeton (HELMS, NCF)
1884 Yale (HELMS, NCF)
1883 Yale (HELMS, NCF)
1882 Yale (NCF)
1881 Yale (NCF)
1880 Princeton (NCF), Yale (NCF)
1879 Princeton (NCF)
1878 Princeton (NCF)
1877 Yale (NCF)
1876 Yale (NCF)
1875 Harvard (NCF)
1874 Yale (NCF)
1873 Princeton (NCF)
1872 Princeton (NCF)
1870 Princeton (NCF)
1869 Princeton (NCF)

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Posted by tigerburningbright75

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Posted on 1/17/22 at 5:21 pm to rocky mountain way

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Get your magnifying glass out so you can find the southern schools, you'll need it.

No one in the South and Southwest was playing in those early days so anything prior to the mid-1920's is irrelevant. In those early days Yale and Princeton would play each other once and the winner was retroactively named the national champion 70 years later. In the 1870's and 1880's the South was recovering from the Civil War and Reconstruction. Oklahoma was still called the Indian Territory. But once the game spread South then we more than held our own. Southern teams such as Alabama, Georgia Tech, and Georgia won the Rose Bowl. The West Coast people didn't like it so they decided to find a conference that they could beat: The B1G Ten !!!

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