re: Claimed Football National Championships since 1950.

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I mean. If you go back far enough, the game was practically a different sport. Hell, go look at the rules for that 1869 Princeton/Rutgers game. A bit of a stretch to call that “football.”

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I wouldn't be in a hurry to confuse football in the 1800s with the game even in the 1920s.

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So, to answer, yeah, I used a semi-arbitrary cut-off date. 1950 was the first year of the Coaches’ Poll.

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The AP poll goes back to 1936. And as a BAMA fan, I'm afraid I'm going to have to insist on our other 5 NCs. Semi-arbitrary or not.