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re: Name another school that could win a National Championship with Miles and O as head coach
Posted on 10/7/21 at 8:03 pm to BLG
Posted on 10/7/21 at 8:03 pm to BLG
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I am curious why LSU didn't win a national title between the segregated 1950s and Nick Saban.
I think the AP sports writers had to much power before the BCS era started. If you go back to the era prior the the BCS (1998) the sports writers voted (AP Polls) on who would be the champions. Most of these guys were on the NE Coast and West Coast, in the big cities. NY, Chicago, LA, maybe Dallas etc.
The largest population of writers in the south were probably in Atlanta. Bottom line, there was no respect for the SEC in this profession except for Bama, and they had to earn every bit of it in the 60 and 70s.
If you go back 50 years prior to the BCS, Tennessee, LSU, Auburn, GA, Bama x6 and Florida won the AP Polls from 1948 to 1997. 11 nattys went to the SEC in 50 years.
Since the BCS and Playoffs started it took a lot of the AP power out of the hands of the sports writers. Since 1998 there have been 13 nattys from the SEC in 22 years.
Therefore it was Northern aggression of the press that kept all the SEC down. haha
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