[Husker] NU v MU (13 national championships for Nebraska!)

[Bapi Gupta]

On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Pat Gaule wrote:

> Mark J Norris wrote:
>
>> See: http://www.wolverinespedia.com/champs.html
>> they list eleven through an assortment of rating systems.
>> 
>
> CFBDatawarehouse lists them with 7 recognized national championships:
> http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_ia/bigten/michigan/national_champs.php
>
> The problem is that all but 3 occured prior to 1936, the first year the AP 
> Poll was used.  Since that time, generally everybody "recognizes" the winner 
> of the AP Poll as owning at least a share of the national title.  Before 
> 1936, exactly which polls/ratings sytems are valid national championship 
> selectors is open to debate.  Many of these early national championships were 
> rewarded *years* after those seasons ended.

Wow, this is fun, using this site, we have *13* college football national 
championships!

http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_ia/bigten/michigan/national_champs.php

And another fun thing is that they recognize my ratings the "Gupta Power 
Ratings".  Maybe I should fill in a few more years on my website and we 
can have 100 national championships ;-)

Bapi