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re: Alabama with only 8 NC's
Posted on 12/31/11 at 11:21 am to TxTiger82
Posted on 12/31/11 at 11:21 am to TxTiger82
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There were no "services" naming champions at the time.
Newspapers across the country declared the winner of the game to be a 'champion'
The Bryant museum has quite the collection. I'll see if I can look them up.
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Posted on 12/31/11 at 11:26 am to attheua
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Newspapers across the country declared the winner of the game to be a 'champion'
1) This is not why Bama claims the pre-1936 titles. They claim them because of the retroactive stats guys, which is pretty stupid in my book.
2) Yeah, so you had a bunch of local newspapers each naming the closest good team the "champion." It was chaotic and unorganized. In any given year, there were probably four or five "champions."
That doesn't mean there was such a thing called "the national championship."
THAT thing didn't exist until 1936, the first year the AP poll organized a systematic vote of media on who the champion would be. This move was done to address the chaos described above.
Hence, claiming any "national title" before 1936 is pretty dumb, IMHO.
Posted on 12/31/11 at 11:27 am to attheua
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Newspapers across the country declared the winner of the game to be a 'champion'
And if by "the game" you mean The Rose Bowl, you are wrong.
That is Bama revisionism right there. The Rose Bowl didn't always even feature the best team from the Pacific Coast Conference. It was certainly not a championship game by any stretch of the imagination.
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