Fake bammer titles!!

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12 National Championships For Bama? Let's Take A Closer Look - Track Em Tigers

Something about this gets posted somewhat regularly, but not enough. THIS one is way more informative than say the one on youtube. This should be a "sticky", at least on bammer week!

The worst one is the 1941 (supposed) NC! We have a couple of questionable ones but not seven like bammer. Ours are also not as ridiculous as theirs, our 2 questionable ones have a lot of legitimacy unlike about 5 of theirs. They have seven NC's, which is impressive enough, but not 14! We could claim about 10 to 14 if we did it like them and they could actually claim about 20 if they wanted to use the same ridiculous system for every year. If they claim '41 the could claim more. Why dont they, who knows, makes no sense!

You need to know this if you know any bammers! It burns em up!
 
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It's still 8 since the inception of the AP poll. Several of the earlier ones were awarded later by groups that went back and looked and made comparisons. They are all mythical until we come up with a play off.
 
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uagrad93 said:
It's still 8 since the inception of the AP poll. Several of the earlier ones were awarded later by groups that went back and looked and made comparisons. They are all mythical until we come up with a play off.
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amen!!
 
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uagrad93 said:
it's still 8 since the inception of the ap poll. Several of the earlier ones were awarded later by groups that went back and looked and made comparisons. They are all mythical until we come up with a play off.
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qft
 
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Off topic I know, but what would the playoff format be? Top 25 teams? Top 10? I'm not sure how it would work if the NCAA does decide to have a playoff system?
 
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tvolsfan said:
How many legit titles do we really have?
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I would say 2. 1998 and 1951.

The other 4 are recognized by the NCAA records manual, however none were selected by the AP or UPI. They were either the Litkenhous(sp) or Dunkel I believe.
 
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InTheShadows said:
I would say 2. 1998 and 1951.

The other 4 are recognized by the NCAA records manual, however none were selected by the AP or UPI. They were either the Litkenhous(sp) or Dunkel I believe.
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1940 and 1967 aren't as legitimate to me. I feel like 1938 and 1950 are still good, though. We did win finish 1st in the majority of polls that year. Especially in 1938, the AP was only a few years old at the time.

UT and Bama aren't the only ones to have questionable titles, either. I know OSU has at least 2 that are a pretty big reach. (1961 and 1970.)
 
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Mississippi State should have been given the National Championship in 1941. We killed Bama that year but something about Pearl Harbor being bombed we couldn't have it.
 
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uagrad93 said:
It's still 8 since the inception of the AP poll. Several of the earlier ones were awarded later by groups that went back and looked and made comparisons. They are all mythical until we come up with a play off.
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No, everyone has some back-dated stuff, and some of those are pretty legit. But in '41 only one of over 30 selectors chose bammer and they went back on their own and decided this was enough. They also waited untill the '80s to claim, wonder why? This is not the only one either. Only bammers would do this!!
 
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They aren't any different than UT. You go to UTsports.com and we claim to have 6. Some say we have 4 and others 2......
 
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4 legit titles, 1938, 1950, 1951, 1998. In 1938 we only had 9 points scored on us the entire year and whooped OU in the final game, we won that championship fair and square and were undefeated. WE DEFINITELY DESERVE THAT TITLE. We beat Texas in their home state in 1950 and OU lost to Kentucky, who we beat by 7. We definitely deserve to claim the 1950 title. Also, 51 and 98 because we were recognized by many polls and 98 we were the undisputed and undefeated champion. Although, I think other schools can claim the 51 title.

We did not deserve the title in 1967, a season in which we lost 2 games, although we were only recognized by one poll. If we beat OU, we would have probably deserved the title. I think we lost on a last second field goal. Also, we lost to USC in 1940.
 
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Yankee_Vol said:
They aren't any different than UT. You go to UTsports.com and we claim to have 6. Some say we have 4 and others 2......
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Using what logic? Obviously you didnt read the article. Claiming 14 is way different than 2 questionable ones.
 
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bamasucks76 said:
Using what logic? Obviously you didnt read the article. Claiming 14 is way different than 2 questionable ones.
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But only a few of those are actually questionable. 2/3 of our claimed titles our questionable. I have no problem claiming 4, maybe 5, but 1967 seems like a reach. Then again, I'm not sure how legitimate Litkenhous was considered then.

Still, if anyone asks me how many titles UT has, I say 6.
 
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tvolsfan said:
But only a few of those are actually questionable. 2/3 of our claimed titles our questionable. I have no problem claiming 4, maybe 5, but 1967 seems like a reach. Then again, I'm not sure how legitimate Litkenhous was considered then.

Still, if anyone asks me how many titles UT has, I say 6.
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You might as well say 6 just so Alabama fans arent the only completely deranged fans on Earth.
 
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I remember on ESPN when they were doing Titletown and they were going through Knoxville, the voice in the beginning said that we have 6 total championships, 3 consensus and 3 shared. But that's what I heard.
 
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my personal fake bammer title is the one that was given to them by the geologist... I am really not kidding on this... would have to look at which year that is they claim this one....
 
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bamasucks76 said:
No, everyone has some back-dated stuff, and some of those are pretty legit. But in '41 only one of over 30 selectors chose bammer and they went back on their own and decided this was enough. They also waited untill the '80s to claim, wonder why? This is not the only one either. Only bammers would do this!!
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The only NCs Bama claims since the 50s are AP and UPI.They were named NC in 66,75,and 77 but doesn't claim them.41 is bogus,not sure why they would claim that one when there were years that were more legitimate that they don't claim.
 
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66 wasn't claimed. That was the year that Michigan State and Notre Dame tied while BAMA won out. They jumped Notre Dame over BAMA. THose titles that were claimed in the 80's was done by PR people. I believe it was the Associate Athletic Director or Media Relations guy.

Again, they are all mythical until we come up with a playoff. You could follow the FCS lead of a 16 team bracket or reduce it to an 8 team bracket. I think this would cut down regular season games and make the bowls useless.
 
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