1970 National Champs - Texas claims

First time I've ever seen an Aggie boastfully post a 52-14 loss to Texas.

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Just came across this on Twitter - After seeing Texas fans lead the charge against Auburn’s national championship claims and even giving A&M shite for trying to claim additional championships for 5 seconds after joining the SEC (and then rightfully taking them down), I thought surely Texas’s claims must be peerless.

Come to find out, Texas to this day claims 1970 as a national championship. A year when they lost their bowl game and finished #3, while Nebraska, the actual national champion, finished unbeaten and AP #1.

Another liberal, gaslighting lie from the fake cowboys.

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That was the coaches poll. You might find this surprising but we don't actually control that. Complain to the coaches.

I don't claim it and never have. No one that loses a bowl game should be #1 but, then again, I didn't vote in the poll.

Oklahoma was the consensus national champ in 1950. The bowl didn’t factor in

Sagarin gave Kentucky 1950 but I believe that was retrospective

Coach title legit

Champions were crowned before bol games back then

Every one knows this

If the bowl game wasn't a factor, Texas was the more dominant team.

if it's AP or UPI/Coach's poll, it's legit imo. In the days of very little television, the national sportwriters were more apt to have at least some knowledge of the teams nationwide than the fans. The coaches probably were less knowledgable about the teams nationwide, but most were more knowledgable about teams in their own conference than anybody else. Not sure which of the two chose the national title winner before the bowls for a spell in the 60s or 70s. I think the coach's poll.

Then, of course, the BCS later. So AP, Coach's poll, and BSC. Those are the legitmate national titles. And yes, I realize some of Alabama's titles were prior to the AP poll in 1936. Starting at 1936 would be reasonable imo. This website, though, is as reasonable and unbiased as a fan could expect for a look at all of the title teams....

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All AP/Coaches titles are legit and are claimed in literally every instance. Weird melt.

Maryland lost a bowl in 1953 but won the national title. Bowls didn't matter then. Because not everyone participated in them. And some conferences like the Big 10 only sent 1 team to the Rose Bowl and no others. And it wasn't always their champ. Some years the runner up went to the Rose Bowl because no team could go consecutively.

What this means is that bowls were viewed as an exhibition and their results didn't matter until 1968. With the exception of 1965. They didn't matter in the coaches poll until 1974.

Are you 12? Nattys were crowned before bowl games back then so it didn't matter what they did in their bowl game.

If you already won a natty are you preparing or playing with near the same intensity required to win as if you hadn't? No one would its human nature which is why this happened back then.