re: I, for one, would like to welcome Indiana to the elite club

Now make a list of sports people care about that actually takes skill.

Football and baseball since 1960

- Southern California (USC)
- Texas
- Michigan
- Ohio State
- LSU
- Miami
- Florida
- Minnesota

You still clinging to that natty when Texas beat yo' arse in the bowl game?

Of all the titles 'Bama has won, that's just lame dude.

The vote was such a huge mistake, it was the last year AP/UPI awarded a title before the bowl games. That's exactly how bad it was. Claim all you want, that just makes you an imposter. Deal.

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If you swap baseball and basketball LSU is in there too

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If you leave basketball and baseball in the list Florida is still there

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An in-year #1 poll has the same validity as a preseason #1 poll. I think you should claim several more given the number of times you were #1 in preseason polls.

Do it. You've earned the votes.

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That happened a total of 2 times before the BCS era.

1966 was the first time, Alabama went undefeated and finished #3 behind Notre Dame and Michigan St who tied each other in a game, and neither of them played in a bowl game. Alabama had won 2 national championships in a row and they didn't want them to have 3.

Alabama doesn't claim it because Alabama didn't win it. It sucks arse, but that is what happened.

And then in 1978, Alabama also finished #1.

They did damn near everything they could to keep Alabama from winning national championships. The entire reason the bowl games started to count was to keep Alabama from winning them.

Because in 1965 they decided to count bowl games. But then Alabama won the NC again that year because of the bowl games. Arkansas could have been the national champion that year, but you lost your bowl game. You wouldn't have won before because Michigan St was #1. Michigan St lost, Arkansas was #2, but you lost. #3 Nebraska lost to #4 Alabama.

And the in 1966, they went back to bowl games not counting again.

This idea Alabama got some kind of preferential bias in the polls is just way off history.

I like Arkansas, especially after 4th and 25. But this is the actual history.

If you want to point at Alabama and a fake claim, point to 1941. It's a bullshite claim and Alabama should drop it.

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That happened a total of 2 times before the BCS era.

1966 was the first time, Alabama went undefeated and finished #3 behind Notre Dame and Michigan St who tied each other in a game, and neither of them played in a bowl game. Alabama had won 2 national championships in a row and they didn't want them to have 3.

Alabama doesn't claim it because Alabama didn't win it. It sucks arse, but that is what happened.

And then in 1978, Alabama also finished #1.

They did damn near everything they could to keep Alabama from winning national championships. The entire reason the bowl games started to count was to keep Alabama from winning them.

Because in 1965 they decided to count bowl games. But then Alabama won the NC again that year because of the bowl games. Arkansas could have been the national champion that year, but you lost your bowl game. You wouldn't have won before because Michigan St was #1. Michigan St lost, Arkansas was #2, but you lost. #3 Nebraska lost to #4 Alabama.

And the in 1966, they went back to bowl games not counting again.

This idea Alabama got some kind of preferential bias in the polls is just way off history.

I like Arkansas, especially after 4th and 25. But this is the actual history.

If you want to point at Alabama and a fake claim, point to 1941. It's a bullshite claim and Alabama should drop it.

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We do need to thank Bama for getting the coaches to start doing an after bowl vote for the NC.

After 1973... when Bama beat the coaches' champion (Notre Dame)... just a few years after Notre Dame had beaten the coaches' champion (Texas)... the coaches decided to move to an after bowl championship to keep from continuing to be embarrassed by the results of the bowl games..

That’s ok. Added 2 more this decade.

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Arkansas Nope.

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Yup

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Arkansas Nope.


Yup

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No. They were declared champs by the FWAA & NFF. Most people only count AP/UPI (coaches poll). Sorry

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Actual history is Arkansas went undefeated while Bama lost to a Texas team that we beat.

While we were robbed of the AP and coaches poll, the FWAA was a legitimate poll at the time that awarded Arkansas the national title. It’s not a made up UCF style claim or a revisionist history view

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Bowl games did not count in 1964. So it doesn't matter what happened in a bowl game.

They did matter in 1965, and Arkansas could have been a national champion that year, but you lost your bowl game to LSU.

The FWAA is a joke, it was never a legitimate poll and nobody ever considered it to be. It had 5 voters who voted anonymously and their entire agenda was trying to make bowl games count.

From 1936-1998, the only legitimate claims are AP and Coaches polls.

That's nice, but you saying Arkansas 1964 doesn't count while getting mad that people don't like your 1942 claim still makes you a hypocritical baby.