06-27-2017, 10:03 AM
Thanks, DC 86. I was responding because the NCAA website--http://www.ncaa.com/history/football/fbs--only lists the 1926 title (shared with Alabama). According to the NCAA, Minnesota won 1940 mythical championship all by its lonesome.
By the way, if one considers proportionally football championships recognized by the NCAA (e.g. championship split between two teams, each get .5), the results come out as follows:
Yale (17)
Princeton (11.83)
N.otre D.ame (10.08)
Alabama (10.33)
U S C (7.5)
That's assuming my math is correct. Quite a run for the Ivy League from 1869-1900 and even up until 1922.
By the way, if one considers proportionally football championships recognized by the NCAA (e.g. championship split between two teams, each get .5), the results come out as follows:
Yale (17)
Princeton (11.83)
N.otre D.ame (10.08)
Alabama (10.33)
U S C (7.5)
That's assuming my math is correct. Quite a run for the Ivy League from 1869-1900 and even up until 1922.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)