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re: Teams Claiming More National Championships Than They Should (Updated OP)
Posted on 8/26/14 at 9:36 am to RightHook
Posted on 8/26/14 at 9:36 am to RightHook
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most people thought pitt was the nc winneer that year,
That is incorrect. Pitt complained about it a lot.
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plus anything pre ww1 wasnt seen in the same light
It has to be taken as its own thing. But we are talking about "what put Southern football on the map." The time period in which that happened seems irrelevant.
What is important is when the "cradle of football" (the east) recognized some other region as worthy competition.
This first started with the Midwest - Chicago, Michigan, and Wisconsin. It then spread to the South later - Georgia Tech, Alabama.
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ut what they did isnt the same as going all the way to l.a. and putting a beat down on the pac champ
Two points: (a) Who is to say GT wouldn't have waxed whatever west coast team was put in front of them? (b) The Rose Bowl didn't have the significance in 1926 that is did in 1966.
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no southern team had ever been given a bid to play there before
It had only been played for 10 years. Our collective memory of the game (i.e., what you are doing now), has imbued that game with more importance than it had. It was a big deal, yes. But it was not the "national championship game." Washington would not have been national champs had they won.
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not sure where u got ur inf that the rose bowl wasnt a big deal.
Never said it wasn't.
This post was edited on 8/26/14 at 9:41 am
Posted on 8/26/14 at 10:10 am to TxTiger82
i think ur right in my putting 1925 over 1917, but its the 3 other times that bama went out there before the poll era and i guess all together they ended up making a bigger impression. fair enough.
Posted on 8/26/14 at 10:14 am to TxTiger82
ill say this about gt, bobby dodd is one of my all time favorite coaches i still have a copy of "on football" and if anyone knows their history, they know that bear was true to his arkansas snake oil salesman roots when dealing with other teams. gt took the brunt of his bullshite in the 60s and ive always been an anti-bear, pro-dodd type of fan.
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