re: SEC NC in Big 3 Sports

Actually, there was a basketball "national championship" game that year in Atlantic City and LSU won it, so they at least have that to go on. Helms named NYU the national champs retroactively years later, which is just as sketch.

There are teams that claim pre-AP titles in other sports just because their local paper claimed that they were the national champs, so its not like there aren't debatable ones out there.

As for 1908 football: " The 1908 college football season ran from Saturday, September 19, to November 28.[1] The Penn Quakers and the Harvard Crimson both finished the season unbeaten, though each had been tied once during the season. The LSU Tigers went unbeaten and untied against a weaker opposition. All three teams were named national champions retroactively by various organizations. Only Pennsylvania officially claims a national championship for the 1908 season." A lot fans have pushed for LSU to claim one for it as there are other schools who have claimed football NCs with far less credibility. They were the only unbeaten and untied team that year.