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re: Can we agree to the following method for National Champions? The SECR Method
Posted on 2/1/15 at 4:29 pm to SummerOfGeorge
Posted on 2/1/15 at 4:29 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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pre-1936 : none
Not sure it should be none as the SEC had good teams but did not get respect at the time.
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1936 - 1997 : AP Title
The problem years would be when the polls declared the winners before the bowl games were actually played.
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Posted on 2/1/15 at 7:55 pm to Cheese Grits
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The problem years would be when the polls declared the winners before the bowl games were actually played.
A problem with this is that early bowl games were usually described as "exhibition" games and weren't even tabulated with a team's won/loss records in most publications of that era. By the 1950s and '60s, pretty much everyone began counting it as a "real" game (and earlier bowl games have been retroactively counted as "real" games as well). Heck, the NCAA itself didn't even start combining stats from bowl games with the regular season stats until 2002.
This post was edited on 2/1/15 at 8:16 pm
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