What years did Ole Miss claim national titles?
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cups at a game I went to. I could be mistaken on that since those brain cells were probably quickly soaked in alcohol.
I want to say that I've seen an even less legitimate title claimed for 1955 at some point.
To me they're all the same, especially when you start going back before the modern era of football. The way some of the titles were awarded or not awarded is questionable at best. Like teams being voted national champs before a bowl then going on to lose in the bowl, yet still getting to be national champs. And just the origin of early polls to begin with brings into question the validity.
I'll give you that national title claims more recently, like from maybe the 80s on have more legitimacy, but I still think a playoff is needed before you can claim a 100% legit national title.
To me they're all the same, especially when you start going back before the modern era of football. The way some of the titles were awarded or not awarded is questionable at best. Like teams being voted national champs before a bowl then going on to lose in the bowl, yet still getting to be national champs. And just the origin of early polls to begin with brings into question the validity.
I'll give you that national title claims more recently, like from maybe the 80s on have more legitimacy, but I still think a playoff is needed before you can claim a 100% legit national title.
We were 10-0-1 with a win in the Orange Bowl. Minnesota is the supposed champion with an 8-0 record with no bowl. We obviously played a tougher schedule with more wins.
of college football championships from the prehistoric days as you speak of here.
Look at where we are today with all the technology, communication and visability available. This weekend there will be 47 games shown throughout the nation on television. There are networks that show sporting events exclusively 24 hours a day. There are sports talk radio programs too numerous to count. Print media outlets have multiple writers and contributors to follow the world of sports. At no time in our history do we have more visibility on sporting events as we do today.
And in this year of our Lord, 2009, we go into the season with multiple opinions of who is the best team in the land and at the end of 2009 AFTER all the games will have been played, we will still have different opinions of who is the best.
Now go back to 1958. Not only did they not broadcast 47 games during a typical weekend, the tv sets themselves only had 13 channels to broadcast on, period. And over half of them were of no use because there were only 3 networks in 1958. In the year 1955, there were 13 college football games broadcast.....FOR THE ENTIRE YEAR! The primary mode of information disseminated throughout the United States in 1958 was through a device that printed information into radio and television stations, aka the Associated Press Ticker. That's right. A score would show up on a ticker machine giving the final score that was then passed on to the general public. If you weren't at the game itself, or happened to catch the dozen or so games on tv FOR THE YEAR, all you saw was the final score of the game. No ESPN recap, no replays throughout the week, no talking heads giving you the breakdown of the games, etc., etc.
Yet we take what some guy named Dick Dunkel thought in 1958 as to who the best football team in America was.
What's next....believing what some guy named Yancy says??
Look at where we are today with all the technology, communication and visability available. This weekend there will be 47 games shown throughout the nation on television. There are networks that show sporting events exclusively 24 hours a day. There are sports talk radio programs too numerous to count. Print media outlets have multiple writers and contributors to follow the world of sports. At no time in our history do we have more visibility on sporting events as we do today.
And in this year of our Lord, 2009, we go into the season with multiple opinions of who is the best team in the land and at the end of 2009 AFTER all the games will have been played, we will still have different opinions of who is the best.
Now go back to 1958. Not only did they not broadcast 47 games during a typical weekend, the tv sets themselves only had 13 channels to broadcast on, period. And over half of them were of no use because there were only 3 networks in 1958. In the year 1955, there were 13 college football games broadcast.....FOR THE ENTIRE YEAR! The primary mode of information disseminated throughout the United States in 1958 was through a device that printed information into radio and television stations, aka the Associated Press Ticker. That's right. A score would show up on a ticker machine giving the final score that was then passed on to the general public. If you weren't at the game itself, or happened to catch the dozen or so games on tv FOR THE YEAR, all you saw was the final score of the game. No ESPN recap, no replays throughout the week, no talking heads giving you the breakdown of the games, etc., etc.
Yet we take what some guy named Dick Dunkel thought in 1958 as to who the best football team in America was.
What's next....believing what some guy named Yancy says??