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re: Alabama's claim to 15 National Championships DEBUNKED
Posted on 3/6/14 at 8:30 pm to Fear The Thumb
Posted on 3/6/14 at 8:30 pm to Fear The Thumb
Who cares? Auburn could claim more if they wanted, there's no law against it.
Posted on 3/6/14 at 8:31 pm to Fear The Thumb
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The 1957 NCAA University Division football season saw two different national champions. Auburn University was ranked first in the AP writers' poll taken at season's end, while Ohio State University was first in the UPI coaches' poll. Auburn was ineligible for a bowl game, however, having been placed on probation indefinitely by the Southeastern Conference, after having paid two high school players $500 apiece.
Posted on 3/6/14 at 8:34 pm to Fear The Thumb
And the cult continues. Only members obsess on this over and over and over.
Posted on 3/6/14 at 8:36 pm to Schwaaz
quote:Shut the frick up, idiot.
Posted by Schwaaz And the cult continues. Only members obsess on this over and over and over.
Posted on 3/6/14 at 8:38 pm to My Daddy
Auburn needs to change the name of their school to Anti-Alabama. That's their main purpose for existence. Instead of tigers, they need to change their mascot name to: "wanna-bes"or"little brothers".
Get a life!
Get a life!
Posted on 3/6/14 at 8:39 pm to Fear The Thumb
Mizzou 1960 National Championship not recognized.
link invalid.
link invalid.
Posted on 3/6/14 at 8:41 pm to bamamonty
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Jasper,Al
Seems about right
Posted on 3/6/14 at 8:45 pm to Schwaaz
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Schwaaz Alabama's claim to 15 National Championships DEBUNKED And the cult continues. Only members obsess on this over and over and over.
Posted on 3/6/14 at 8:45 pm to bamamonty
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Get a life!
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Alabama Fan
Uh...
Posted on 3/6/14 at 8:47 pm to jatebe
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The 1957 NCAA University Division football season saw two different national champions. Auburn University was ranked first in the AP writers' poll taken at season's end, while Ohio State University was first in the UPI coaches' poll. Auburn was ineligible for a bowl game, however, having been placed on probation indefinitely by the Southeastern Conference, after having paid two high school players $500 apiece.
Wasn't bama's last 3 "awarded" while on probation?
Posted on 3/6/14 at 8:50 pm to jatebe
quote:Other teams claimed national titles on probation, but bammers are the only school who claims them when they finish in 3rd place in their own conference
The 1957 NCAA University Division football season saw two different national champions. Auburn University was ranked first in the AP writers' poll taken at season's end, while Ohio State University was first in the UPI coaches' poll. Auburn was ineligible for a bowl game, however, having been placed on probation indefinitely by the Southeastern Conference, after having paid two high school players $500 apiece
If you dig into Auburn's 1957 probation, you will find it came about because bammer coaches and boosters were pathetic enough to hire private investigators to dig up dirt on Auburn. I believe Shug Jordan even covered this in his autobiography.
And then bammers are pathetic enough to cry about Tennessee and Auburn trying to get them on probation and think anybody else cares
Posted on 3/6/14 at 8:52 pm to auburnphan23
It's all they have got in the entire world. Cut em some slack
Posted on 3/6/14 at 8:53 pm to BowlJackson
Is this an ITAT reunion or what?
Posted on 3/6/14 at 8:56 pm to Whiskey Man
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Wasn't bama's last 3 "awarded" while on probation?
LSU was on probation when they made the game in 2011. There is a difference in probation and post season ban. Auburn 1957 was not allowed to play a post season game.
Posted on 3/6/14 at 9:00 pm to BamaDude06
National championships in the 1950's were claimed before bowl games anyway. After all, Alabama claims two or three national championships when they lost their bowl game
Posted on 3/6/14 at 9:13 pm to Fear The Thumb
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Fear The Thumb
You misspelled dumb
Posted on 3/6/14 at 9:21 pm to stat19
BamaRoy needs to provide some data to refute these Aubies claim
Posted on 3/6/14 at 9:23 pm to stat19
No college football (non-bammer) fan in America believes alabama has won 15 NC's. It makes them look foolish to claim that many especially since their record in winning is legitimately so stellar.
Posted on 3/6/14 at 9:24 pm to stat19
Story about how Auburn "won" the 1957 championship
225 people voted in the 11/25/57 poll. Auburn received 85 first place votes.
The next week (the final 1957 poll) 360 voted, with Auburn getting 210 first place votes.
This is why I laugh when Auburn fans try and poke holes in Alabama's national championships.
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In ‘57, Ralph “Shug” Jordan’s seventh season at Auburn, the college poll was open to all media, a tidbit discovered by Bill Beckwith and held in abeyance by the Tigers’ sports information director.
After four straight years of seven or eight victories, Auburn was off to a 7-0 start, including a season-opening victory at Tennessee – a result that earned an uncommon eight-column headline in The New York Times.
Somehow, Auburn had to push past Ohio State in the polls and Buckeye coach Woody Hayes who questioned the Tigers’ manhood by asking, “But whom have they played.” At that point, the poll had evolved into the South and West against the East and Midwest, and the numbers favored the Buckeyes.
According to Paul Hemphill in his Nelson-provided book, “Lost in the Lights,” Beckwith made some phone calls and found out that about two dozen small radio stations in Alabama were not aware they could vote in The AP Poll. He advised them of their right and asked them not to act until Auburn played its next three games.
Auburn beat Georgia 6-0 and Florida State 29-7 and, on the eve of the Alabama game, Beckwith, a friendly sports editor, and four secretaries called small radio stations and newspapers across the South. Auburn is going to kill Alabama, they said, and as soon as the game is over, vote for the Tigers.
“The people at Ohio State never knew what hit them,” Hemphill wrote.
Jordan pulled his starters before halftime and Auburn won 40-0.
Hemphill continued: “The votes for Auburn began rolling in at The Associated Press headquarters at Rockefeller Center in New York in such an avalanche that The AP sports editor, Ted Smits, phoned Beckwith around dark that evening. ‘Call ‘em off, Bill,’ he said. ‘You’ve won the national championship.’”
The AP quickly closed that loophole and these days, the AP ballot is a point of pride. There are only 65 voters in the country and AP in Little Rock normally alternates the state’s lone ballot between Arkansas’ two largest news organizations.
225 people voted in the 11/25/57 poll. Auburn received 85 first place votes.
The next week (the final 1957 poll) 360 voted, with Auburn getting 210 first place votes.
This is why I laugh when Auburn fans try and poke holes in Alabama's national championships.
Posted on 3/6/14 at 9:31 pm to My Daddy
Does it really give Auburn fans that much satisfaction to claim that Alabama only has like 9-10 more national titles than them, not 13-14?
I mean, congrats?
I mean, congrats?
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