re: Meet Your Newest Bluebloods

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But being denied a chance to play does not equate to winning said game. That USC team was legit. I think there is a good chance Auburn could have won, but we’ll never know.

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That's not Auburn's fault. They were spotless. Sure they didn't win the NC because they didnt win the season long beauty pageant, and sure there is little credibility in claiming Auburn the National Champion, but because everyone else is claiming championships for less might as well claim it for the more deserving team. Click Clack

Of all the wild claimed titles -

2004 is minimally controversial IMO. Auburn was clearly a championship level team, the only real rival for that was cheating at historical levels. We should absolutely claim 2004, IMO it takes less of a leap than any of the others.

Yep! The 1910 stuff is pretty embarrassing but cant win 'em all!

Keep it on the greens today!

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which, by any measure, is silly. That's what happens when you list all or most source, and that's why it undermines any reasonable list. I mean, we don't have to have lists, but if we're going to have them, let's be reasonable.

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Of course it's silly.

Here's a link to the list of ANY selector, up to 2009:

CFB Datawarehouse - Wayback machine

On that list, we got random selectors I never heard of awarding us titles in multiple 2-loss seasons. That's how silly it got.

But people claim we claim EVERY title ever lobbed in our general direction, so let's do it. Pretty sure we even had someone award us 2016

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but because everyone else is claiming championships for less might as well claim it for the more deserving team. Click Clack

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But everyone else isn’t. That’s the problem.

To my knowledge the only claimed national title that wasn’t awarded by a major poll since 1998 (origin of the BCS Title Game) is UCF in 2017. And now Auburn 2004.

That’s embarrassing.

And for that matter, I’m not sure I know of a claimed title not awarded by a major poll after Tennessee’s bogus claim of 1967 other than now Auburn 1983, 1993, and 2004 along with UCF 2017. Again, embarrassing.

If Auburn had just come out and claimed 1913 and 1914, it’d be one thing. Claimed national titles prior to 1936 are a dime a dozen. Everyone looks at them as silly anyway. But to claim recent “championships” that weren’t awarded at the time is ridiculous and literally no one but UCF had done that to this point.

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And now Auburn 2004. That’s embarrassing.

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The BCS is a computer model. It has no way to account for a team getting caught cheating and having a title revoked.

That’s why reasonable people can look at the situation and realize Auburn was the champion for 2004.

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Anyone but LSU claiming the 1958 title is just insane lol.

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Anyone but LSU claiming the 1958 title is just insane lol.

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I’m obviously not for claiming the ‘58 title since the trophy was not awarded, but it’s certainly one those “I guess we’ll never know because they didn’t meet on the field” types of years.

Auburn was defending AP National Champs and finished 9-0-1 with the tie to Georgia Tech most certainly costing us a legit repeat title.

Auburn and LSU did not play, but had 4 common opponents (Alabama, Kentucky, Florida, and Miss St.). Auburn played just one of those at home… LSU played two of those at home. LSU won all four games 62-23. Auburn won all four games 61-27.

That’s one of those years that its a shame there wasn’t an SEC Championship Game.

9 repeat 9x National Champions Auburn Tigers.

And that is all while playing the most difficult schedule for years and years. For years Auburn played Bama, UT, UGa, and UF. UF, UGA, and Bama in 3 straight games. Called Amen Corner by Coach Dye

Are you guys trans blue bloods lol. Stop inbreeding