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It is quite understandable. Multiple teams claim titles from the same years across the history of college football.

Meanwhile, the NCAA awards the national championship in all other sports. Example: Arkansas claims 1964 football, as does Alabama and Notre Dame. While the NCAA recognizes all 3 as title winners, they do not recognize them as NCAA championship teams. Same with LSU claiming 1908 as does Pennsylvania and LSU claiming 1958 as does Iowa.

I understand that with the early years of college football, but the AP and Coaches Polls have been established as the main polls for decades now. They are the only two polls we see in the media each week of the season on TV, etc.

LSU doesn't even officially claim the 1908 title. As for 58, Iowa lost a game by double digits and had a tie while LSU was undefeated and was named the champion by the AP and Coaches Poll along with every other publication (so Iowa claiming that is a little silly too, but I get it). And now that there is a game entitled the "national championship" game (although not affiliated with the NCAA), it seems a little ridiculous at this point not to have something in place to recognize them as NCAA championship teams (odd to be involved the whole time during the season except when it matters the most at the end).