re: Many schools have been gypped out of national titles, but 1983 Auburn was one of the worst

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Sure ‘66 and ‘77 Bama teams might have been deserving, but Bama has won 3 titles it really had no business winning. And that doesn’t include the 5 retroactive titles claimed 50 years after the fact

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Other than 1941, four of those so called retroactively awarded titles were before the AP poll existed and awarded a national title trophy. 1925, 1926, 1930 , and 1934 were all undefeated teams that were named national champions in one of more of the ranking services at the time. It wasn't as if those claims weren't at least backed up by actual #1 rankings in one of more of the ranking systems that existed at the time.

If we're going to pretend that any pre-AP poll title claim is questionable unless every single polling service names the same team #1 then every title by every team prior to 1936 is illegitimate by that standard.

If that's the case then I guess AP titles are the only ones that count and there's a clear Big 3 when it comes to those...

1) Alabama - 12
2) Notre Dame- 8
3) Oklahoma- 7