Now that the National Title isn't "mythical," we dominate

BamaInBham

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By my research, there are 4 championships awarded to Bama by some entity that we don't count; 1945, 1966, 1975, and 1977. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong about that.

You never hear anyone mention the ones awarded but not claimed..........

In 1945 we were 10-0, finished the year beating Southern Cal 34-14 in the Rose Bowl
In 1966 we were 11-0, finished the year beating Nebraska 34-7 in the Sugar Bowl
In 1975 we were 11-1, losing our opener against Missouri before wining 11 straight including beating Penn State 13-6 in the Sugar Bowl
In 1977 we were 11-1, losing only to Nebraska at Lincoln, and beating Ohio State 35-6 in the Sugar Bowl
According to College Football Data Warehouse below are the unclaimed NCs Bama has. Keep in mind that some selectors, especially early ones ignored the bowls. Of course some of these are ridiculous, others not. Other programs also have more claims outside of the wire services. E.g., according to CFDW, Notre Dame is awarded NCs by some selector in 24 years, IMO they have 13, 8 in poll era; OSU is awarded 22, IMO they have 5, 5 in poll era; Bama is awarded 30, IMO they have 16, 12 in poll era.


Year
Regular Season Record
Overall Record
Selectors
AP Rank
19368-0-18-0-144
19379-09-114
19459-010-032
19509-29-2116
19629-110-115
19638-29-218
196610-011-063
197411-011-115
197510-111-133
197710-111-132
19809-210-216
199110-111-115
199411-012-115
 

mrusso

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Why is it always when there is a split, that it is only Bama's side of the split that doesn't count ? :)

If Bama only didn't count 1941, every other claim is legitimate, with '73 being the most specious.

The 4 Bama claims before the poll era, were all undefeated, untied seasons, each one ending in a Rose Bowl win, the first 3 of which was when it was the only bowl in the country. The only exception was in '26 when undefeated/united Bama played Pop Warner's undedfeated/untied Stanford team to a tie - they make a claim on the title. All 4 Bama opponents were undefeated with '25 Wash and '34 Stanford having a tie. In the 21 years that Bama played in the Rose Bowl, 25-45, Bama was 4-1-1 against the home standing PCC, the rest of the country was 4-11. Of course, as you say, bowl participation was different then, but it still mattered to most. But anyway, Bama certainly had a legitimate claim to those 4 pre-poll titles. What can anyone say about a wire service poll ? The South certainly never got the benefit of the doubt.
You do realize we only won because the refs helped us out in all these games...right.
 

TideFan in AU

Hall of Fame
The great thing is that no matter what metric you use, Bama is the undisputed king of college football.

Living in enemy territory, rather than referencing the number of Championships around my barner friends and family, I tell them "I'm not sure how many they have. You AU fans seem to be experts on the the number of Championships Alabama has, so I'm content to keep watching Bama winning 'em and ya'll can keep count of 'em."

It absolutely burns them up. 😂😂😂
 

editder

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Nov 2, 2017
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Before CNS the media use to manipulate NC graphics in whatever way would have ND#1. They would list ‘Poll Era’ as a cutoff, Unanimous, Coaches Only, AP Only etc whatever....

Now after 5 Unanimous NC’s in 9 seasons there is absolutely no way they can try and manipulate the criteria that doesn’t STILL have Alabama #1 All-Time.... it’s awesome!!!
Even if you only count NCs on leap years, we've still got them beat 3-2.
 

Tenntiderman

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Dec 1, 2017
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Spring Hill, Tn
I don't get into revionists history. To me? That is like saying that wars didn't exist prior to the invention of gunpowder. In the old days the Rose Bowl was recognized as the big dog of bowl games because it was about the ONLY bowl game.
 

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