MajorSelector
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| Interests: | National Championships |
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| Number of Posts: | 15 |
| Registered on: | 1/27/2023 |
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re: Grubb staying at Bama, not going to the Seahawks
Posted by MajorSelector on 2/9/24 at 11:28 pm
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re: Alabama's 1941 national championship was first awarded in 1954
Posted by MajorSelector on 1/17/24 at 3:07 pm
Everyone has always seen the 1941 title as suspect.
The new info here is that it was retroactively awarded in 1954.
The go-to defense was that *someone* awarded them the national championship, so it's worth recognizing. They knew they were national champions in 1941 so let's claim it.
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Alabama's 1941 national championship was first awarded in 1954
Posted by MajorSelector on 1/17/24 at 2:51 pm
The Houlgate System was a math rating system distributed in newspapers in the 1930s. It awarded pre-bowl national championships.
It also awarded a trophy to the pre-bowl champion, the Foreman & Clark Trophy. (Anyone know where it is today? Stanford, SMU, and LSU had it from 1934–1936.)
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re: By the logic of some here…shouldn’t Penix win the Heisman?
Posted by MajorSelector on 12/4/23 at 6:42 pm
he had the flu bro...
re: How does college football have a committee to select 4 teams they perceive as the best
Posted by MajorSelector on 12/4/23 at 6:38 pm
Because all the teams can't play each other...
re: Seminoles should Pull a Trojan
Posted by MajorSelector on 12/4/23 at 6:37 pm
FSU is currently AP No. 4, Alabama AP No. 5.
I could [i]maybe[/i] see that AP Poll order holding if FSU wins and Alabama is CFP champion... but the one extra game helps Bama a lot. Didn't have that in 2003. ...
re: Seminoles should Pull a Trojan
Posted by MajorSelector on 12/4/23 at 6:31 pm
USC was No. 1 in BOTH the AP Poll and Coaches Poll prior to the BCS selection.
It didn't require any special politicking... the AP voters were themselves motivated to keep USC there at No. 1 when they didn't lose.
Coaches might have done the same... but they were contractually obligated to v...
re: It been 84 years
Posted by MajorSelector on 12/4/23 at 1:27 pm
there were multiple polls before the AP Poll
[b]Albert Russel Erskine Trophy[/b]
> The Albert Russel Erskine [b]Trophy[/b], emblematic of the national football championship as determined by [b]250 sports writers[/b], will be presented to [b]Notre Dame, 1929 winner,[/b] at the Pittsburgh–Notre...
re: Another National Championship
Posted by MajorSelector on 10/29/23 at 9:38 pm
Quick, post rare unclaimed Auburn national championships.
1910 - Auburn - NATIONAL CHAMPIONS - Billingsley Report - NCAA-designated major selector
Appears in the 1996-1999 NCAA records book.
The original Billingsley Report formula, before he was forced to change it to accommodate the BCS.
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re: UPDATE..Bogus National Title claims: Alabama claims 18 but most are questionable
Posted by MajorSelector on 8/14/23 at 2:53 pm
Not all titles, even if you go with this exceedingly spurious definition of "retroactive".
USC was awarded a national championship trophy on the field of the 1932 Rose Bowl.
The MacArthur Bowl was directly awarded to the winners of the 1972 Orange Bowl and 1973 Sugar Bowl....
re: Tennessee's 1940 national championship... was actually won by Stanford
Posted by MajorSelector on 1/28/23 at 12:39 pm
[quote]Eh, anything before the BCS is fair game. They were all mythical.[/quote]
This Williamson title is especially mythical in that they didn't even win it :rotflmao:
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re: Realistically how far is Texas A&M and Tennessee
Posted by MajorSelector on 1/28/23 at 1:23 am
[img]https://i.imgur.com/ZLIIrvS.png[/img]...
re: Tennessee's 1940 national championship... was actually won by Stanford
Posted by MajorSelector on 1/28/23 at 1:07 am
1941 is on my list! :cheers:...
Tennessee's 1940 national championship... was actually won by Stanford
Posted by MajorSelector on 1/28/23 at 12:49 am
Here's the NCAA record book's thoughts on the 1940 national championship.
Tennessee was apparently chosen by Dunkel and Williamson.
[img]https://i.imgur.com/t4oeDKM.png[/img]
One of the selectors is the "Williamson System", a mathematical system. It was syndicated in major newspapers.
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re: UPDATE..Bogus National Title claims: Alabama claims 18 but most are questionable
Posted by MajorSelector on 1/27/23 at 9:44 pm
Has anyone mentioned that Alabama's 1941 Houlgate System title was awarded [b][i]retroactively[/i][/b] in 1954??
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