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Yep. Lived in Nebraska for 6 years and all of the Nebraska fans thought the would rule the BIG 10. At the CWS the year that they joined the BIG 10 they had a bunch of Beer Gardens and bars rewarding BIG 10 championship tickets off as door prizes.

Nebraska and their fans think they are a top 10 program and can push people around. The reason that they are in the BIG 10 is because they couldn’t stomach Mizzou getting to go to the BIG 10 over them.

Screw Nebraska. I hope they rot forever

Georgia is missing a modern quarterback. It wouldn’t matter if they hired Kiffin, Sark, or Brady they would still lose to a high powered offense without a competent passer. Alabama found this out in 2016 and much of 2017. Had they had Justin Fields last Saturday they would’ve probably won. I have no idea If JT Daniels is much better than Bennett, but if he is not then he will probably suffer the same thing vs Bama that Bennett did.

FTR yes I know Jalen got better in year 3 and 4 of his college career, but when Clemson, Auburn, and Georgia totally shut down the run in 16 and 17 he was a total liability.

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They tried to get a Top 5 matchup but too many folks wanted that big bowl deal, that includes Oklahoma.

FWIW bowl Tie ins don’t mean a team has to accept a deal, only that the conference has to provide a worthy team. Hell Bama played ND in the Orange bowl in 1974 instead of the Sugar bowl.

Nah try again. They were offered an opportunity to play in the holiday bowl, but Switzer chose to go to Orange Bowl.

Holiday bowl extended offers to both Washington and Oklahoma that year. Bowl tieins have been ignored before.

1984 BYU got most of their claim because they beat #3 Pittsburgh (at the time), and because Oklahoma and Washington ducked at playing them in the bowls. BYU could only play in the Holiday Bowl and OU and Washington were both given the option to taking a huge bowl reward loss to play BYU in the Holiday but chose to play each other in a top 5 matchup in the Orange Bowl. I seriously doubt anyone would blame Washington or OU without knowing pollsters would do them dirty like they did.

It just goes to show you how stupid the Poll era was in that pollsters had too much power with their biases. If folks want to say everything before 98 is mythical championships then I’m okay with it based on situations like that, and if someone believes there is a legitimate claim for their team to claim one then I’m fine with that also. But it doesn’t diminish the fact that major polling services legitimately rewarding National Championships based on the criteria of the day. This also doesn’t mean that teams on postseason bans after 1964 deserve a legitimate claim to one.

Then you get into the Boise and Utah non claims.

Personally I think the most BS claim of all time never gets talked about.... BYU 1984. I think most people are too fixated on devaluing Bear Bryant’s success... okay Nick Saban and Alabama still is owning everyone even if you only give Bear 3 NCs with this revisionist crusade of awarding and nixing nc claims.

It’s funny that Georgia Tech has more legitimate claims than Georgia

If Auburn wants to claim 2004 or 1983 I’m sure most Bama fans wouldn’t whine about it because we know they were screwed in both cases.



But Auburn will never claim 2004 because they would owe Tubberville a crap ton of money if they did.

Well there lies the problem with some of the NCs awarded in the polling era. Ole Miss should have 1962 and Bama should have 1966, but voters kept them out for political reasons ( look at governors being jackasses).

As much as many disagree, the BCS solved many problems because it gave 3 entities voices instead of one. If folks want to say everything before 1998 is “mythical” then fine, or anything before the poll era is mythical, or even anything before the playoff era is mythical I’m fine with that. But this constant bashing of Alabama’s NC is kinda getting old and stupid since all but 1 are legitimately awarded. Seriously no one questions Miami’s 1983, BYU’s 1984, or Colorado\ GT’s 1990 as much as any of the Bear’s 6 NCs

The only dubious one is 41. A lot of fans of other schools try to throw shade on 64,73 and 78 because we lost the bowl game (64 and 73) and 78 because we lost to USC in the regular season. But again the AP, UPI, or Coaches poll awarded Bama NC. All were credible and recognized services.