From: mm42@prism.gatech.EDU (Mark Mitchell)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.football.college
Subject: Re: help on past National champs
Date: 15 Oct 92 12:58:04 GMT
Organization: Ramblin' Wrecks from Georgia Tech

tja2f@dayhoff.med.Virginia.EDU (Timothy J. Allison) wrote:
}
}Actually I'd like to extend this and ask if people could direct me to the 
}final polls (not just who the Nat'l Champ was) for the past 20 years or
}so.  Maybe by chance someone has this stuff compiled already in byte-space??

A certain Blowhard who will remain nameless *said* he was going to set
up an ftp site for this kind of thing.  ;-)

Anyway, the following list may be what you are looking for.
This was originally compiled by Clay Phipps and later augmented by
myself.

Mythical National College Football Champions:
 
year *  college
---- -- ------------------------
1889 H: Princeton
1890 H: Harvard
1891 H: Yale
1892 H: Yale
1893 H: Princeton
1894 H: Yale
1895 H: Pennsylvania
1896 H: Princeton
1897 H: Pennsylvania
1898 H: Harvard
1899 H: Harvard
1900 H: Yale
1901 H: Michigan
1902 H: Michigan
1903 H: Princeton
1904 H: Pennsylvania
1905 H: Chicago
1906 H: Princeton
1907 H: Yale
1908 H: Pennsylvania
1909 H: Yale
1910 H: Harvard
1911 H: Princeton
1912 H: Harvard
1913 H: Harvard
1914 H: Army
1915 H: Cornell
1916 H: Pittsburgh
1917 H: Georgia Tech
1918 H: Pittsburgh
1919 H: Harvard
1920 H: California
1921 H: Cornell
1922 H: Cornell
1923 H: Illinois
1924 R: Notre Dame
1925 R: Dartmouth
1926 R: Stanford
1927 R: Illinois
1928 R: Southern California
1929 R: Notre Dame
1930 R: Notre Dame
1931 K: Southern California
1932 K: Michigan
1933 K: Michigan
1934 K: Minnesota
1935 K: Southern Methodist
1936 A: Minnesota
1937 A: Pittsburgh
1938 A: Texas Christian
1939 A: Texas A&M
1940 A: Minnesota
1941 A: Minnesota
1942 A: Ohio State
1943 A: Notre Dame
1944 A: Army
1945 A: Army
1946 A: Notre Dame
1947 A: Notre Dame
1948 A: Michigan
1949 A: Notre Dame
1950 C: Oklahoma
1951 A: Tennessee
1952 C: Michigan State
1953 C: Maryland
1954 A: Ohio State		U: UCLA
1955 C: Oklahoma
1956 C: Oklahoma
1957 A: Auburn			U: Ohio State
1958 C: Louisiana State
1959 C: Syracuse
1960 C: Minnesota
1961 C: Alabama
1962 C: Southern California
1963 C: Texas
1964 C: Alabama
1965 A: Alabama			U: Michigan State
1966 C: Notre Dame
1967 C: Southern California
1968 C: Ohio State
1969 C: Texas
1970 A: Nebraska		U: Texas
1971 C: Nebraska
1972 C: Southern California
1973 A: Notre Dame		U: Alabama
1974 A: Oklahoma		U: Southern California
1975 C: Oklahoma
1976 C: Pittsburgh
1977 C: Notre Dame
1978 A: Alabama			U: Southern California
1979 C: Alabama
1980 C: Georgia
1981 C: Clemson
1982 C: Pennsylvania State
1983 C: Miami Florida
1984 C: Brigham Young
1985 C: Oklahoma
1986 C: Pennsylvania State
1987 C: Miami Florida
1988 C: Notre Dame
1989 C: Miami Florida
1990 A: Colorado		U: Georgia Tech
1991 A: Miami Florida           U: Washington
 
And here they are sorted by team:

Alabama C1961,1964,1979; A1965,1978; U1973
Army H1914; A1944,1945
Auburn A1957
Brigham Young C1984
California H1920
Chicago H1905
Clemson C1981
Colorado A1990
Cornell H1915,1921,1922
Dartmouth R1925
Georgia C1980
Georgia Tech H1917,U1990
Harvard H1890,1898,1899,1910,1912,1913,1919
Illinois H1923; R1927
Louisiana State C1958
Maryland C1953
Miami Florida C1983,1987,1989; A1991
Michigan H1901,1902; K1932,1933; A1948
Michigan State C1952; U1965
Minnesota K1934; A1936,1940,1941; C1960
Nebraska C1971, A1970
Notre Dame R1924,1929; R1930; A1943,1946,1947,1949,1973; C1966,1977,1988
Ohio State A1942,1954; U1957; C1968
Oklahoma C1950,1955,1956,1975,1985; A1974
Pennsylvania H1895,1897,1904,1908
Pennsylvania State C1982,1986
Pittsburgh H1916,1918; A1937; C1976
Princeton H1889,1893,1903,1906,1911
Southern California R1928; K1931; C1962,1967,1972; U1974,1978
Southern Methodist K1935
Stanford R1926
Syracuse C1959
Tennessee A1951
Texas C1963,1969; U1970
Texas A&M A1939
Texas Christian A1938
UCLA U1954
Washington U1991
Yale H1891,1892,1894,1900,1907,1908

* The mythical championship teams above were selected by the following:
H: (1889--1923) Helms Athletic Foundation.
R: (1924--1930) Rissman Trophy.
K: (1931--1935) Knute Rockne Memorial Trophy.
A: (1936--1990) Associated Press.
U: (1950--1990) United Press International 
C: (1950--1990) "consensus" (defined here as AP + UPI).

-- 
Mark Mitchell           Georgia Tech            mm42@prism.gatech.edu
   "Close only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades."
                                 "And computer rating systems."
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