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Re: Some dude named Rod Caragher new SJSU coach - Bruce Wang - 12-18-2012
If we're talking futebol analogies, the better one for Stanford is ManCity with U$C playing the role of Manchester United, complete with poser front-running fans. ManCity has a history of glory and championships in the distant past, and was even relegated to the lower division, much like Stanford playing WAC-quality ball under Walt Harris. Now with much wealthier benefactors (Abu Dhabi in ManCity's case and John Arrillaga in Stanford's), ManCity plays competitively at the highest levels. Even winning Premier League (like Stanford-winning the Pac-12), with its sights set on the Champions League title and the FIFA Club World Cup (BCS National Championship).
Re: Some dude named Rod Caragher new SJSU coach - yvonne - 12-18-2012
You don't have to write it in Portuguese just because Christiano Ronaldo played for ManU.
Re: Some dude named Rod Caragher new SJSU coach - terry - 12-18-2012
The era of national champions being decided by polls didn't begin until 1936, when the AP poll started. In 1926, the only national championship award in college football was the Rissman Trophy. It was awarded based on the rankings under the Dickinson System. Frank Dickinson was a professor who devised a mathematical ranking system based on strength of schedule. Sort of the Sagarin of his time, I guess. Dickinson's rankings were the first widely publicized and widely accepted rankings, and the Rissman Trophy was the first national championship award (and in 1926, the only award). Stanford was declared the national champion under the Dickinson System and won the Rissman Trophy in 1926.
A number of ranking systems were developed later. The sponsors of some of those ranking systems have gone back and retroactively declared national champions for seasons previous to the creation of those systems (including Boand, Houlgate, Poling, Helms, Parke Davis, National Championship Foundation, CFRA, and others). Those retroactive rankings are the basis for the national championship claims of other schools for the 1926 season. But at the time, Stanford won the only recognized national championship award and was viewed as the national champion. In my unbiased view, that gives Stanford the best claim to the 1926 championship.