Aggie, about this 1939 national title upon deeper inspection

Have you been nominated as an SECRant Worst Poster yet?

ETA- Yeah, you were the 3rd user nominated.

Dude, it was before people were wearing facemasks. This ia ancient history. Let the aggies have this. Besides 1939, all A&M has is Johnny Freebase beating Duke in the chicken bowl.

TCU were your national champions for 1938, not Tennessee.

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Dude, it was before people were wearing facemasks.

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College still used leather helmets back then.

Also, the television was not a common household product yet.

Scores were transmitted via telegrams.

If a player from that team were alive today they would be over 100 years old.

If ture seems like the Vols should be pissed. However, I agree with my fellow Longhorn on this thread, Aggies should have one at least. Its tough to have 0 natties anyone on this board has never seen. Texas has underachieved significantly and I have at least seen baseball and football natties in my lifetime.

Yeah doesn’t really make sense that Vols don’t claim the title that year. We played more ranked teams than Aggies did in the lead up to the natty selection pre bowl game. We were also ranked number 1 most of the year before randomly being moved down in the rankings despite winning. Doesn’t really make sense

Upon natty selection:

Vols were 10-0 with 2 ranked wins and 4 weeks ranked at number 1

Aggies were 10-0 with 1 ranked win (not even against a top 10 team) and one week ranked number 1 at the end of the season somehow

I don’t understand what the voters were thinking lol. Guess Aggies needed a gimme title

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And this is coming from bama.

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USC won the natty in 1939

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That is a bogus banner because it also says they won it in 2003.

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I don’t understand what the voters were thinking lol. Guess Aggies needed a gimme title

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Most of the titles pre 1980s barely make sense most years.

If you look back there's undefeated teams that end up ranked #6 not to mention the teams awarded championships that would then lose their last game.

The pre 1960s championships are almost a blind dart toss.

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before randomly being moved down in the rankings despite winning. Doesn’t really make sense

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I'm guessing Serraneaux's great-granddaddy kept writing letters to the editor and annoyed everybody.

Jamal, you, as an Alabama fan, should not question an AP national title of another program when your school proudly displays 1941 (AP #20) as a legitimate national title. You need to understand how things worked back in the day. Many programs in a given year have legit claims to a national title, but AP and/or UPI can only choose one.