re: Alabama with only 8 NC's

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Newspapers across the country declared the winner of the game to be a 'champion'

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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.