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re: Teams Claiming More National Championships Than They Should (Updated OP)
Posted on 8/26/14 at 10:22 am to Tiger n Miami AU83
Posted on 8/26/14 at 10:22 am to Tiger n Miami AU83
ur talking about legit then claim non wire service nattys in the poll era?
srsly. teams get screwed, but u either are or u arent.
bama was the 3rd or so choice in 1925, after that they were usually the first pick, later on, they decided to just play the b1G cause they didnt want bama coming to l.a. anymore. and i dont like bama, just trying to be objective, cant take away what theyve accomplished.
srsly. teams get screwed, but u either are or u arent.
bama was the 3rd or so choice in 1925, after that they were usually the first pick, later on, they decided to just play the b1G cause they didnt want bama coming to l.a. anymore. and i dont like bama, just trying to be objective, cant take away what theyve accomplished.
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Posted on 8/26/14 at 10:24 am to RightHook
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bama was the 3rd or so choice in 1925, after that they were usually the first pick, later on, they decided to just play the b1G cause they didnt want bama coming to l.a. anymore. and i dont like bama, just trying to be objective, cant take away what theyve accomplished.
Again, how about some proof?
Posted on 8/26/14 at 11:30 am to RightHook
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bama was the 3rd or so choice in 1925,
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8-0 Dartmouth, 7-0-2 Colgate, and 5-1-1 Princeton turned down invitations, and 7-1 Michigan, 5-3 Illinois, and 5-2-1 Yale appear to have rebuffed inquiries as well, so the Rose Bowl committee looked Southward, but first to Alabama's Southern Conference co-champion 9-0-1 Tulane. Unlike Alabama, Tulane had already established national relevance by tying Missouri Valley champion Missouri (6-1-1) and by going up to Chicago and beating 5-3 Northwestern 18-7 (Northwestern gave 7-1 Michigan their only loss). But Tulane also turned down the Rose Bowl, citing concern over the students being out of class for the long trip out West and back. The Rose Bowl bid thus fell to Alabama
Bama was the Rose Bowl's 8th choice in 1925. Mostly because they were only about the 13th best team in the country as no one they played was even a top 40 team and they barely won two games even against nobodies.
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Nothing of the kind ran in newspapers across the nation about Alabama in 1925 or 1926 because no one considered Alabama to be the national champion of 1925 at the time. Alabama 1925 was not a 1925 "national champion" until 1941, when the Helms Foundation selected them retroactively. This is a point Alabama football historians and bloggers fail to grasp. They like to say that the Rose Bowl was a "de facto" national championship game in the 1920s, which is silly, given that the Big 10, Notre Dame, and most major Eastern teams refused to play in it by 1925. Had there been an AP poll in 1925, neither Washington nor Alabama would have been ranked as one of the top 2 teams before the game-- more like #5 vs. #13. The Rose Bowl was just another game between 2 good teams
This post was edited on 8/26/14 at 11:31 am
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