BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:minnesota DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19370101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19380101 DESCRIPTION:1936 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1936 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented the Universit y of Minnesota in the 1936 college football season. In their fifth year un der head coach Bernie Bierman\, the Golden Gophers compiled a 7–1 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 203 to 32. The team was named national champion by nine NCAA-designated major selectors\, then and in the decades since: Associated Press\, Billingsley Report\, Dickins on System\, Dunkel System\, Helms Athletic Foundation\, Litkenhous\, Natio nal Championship Foundation\, Poling System\, and Williamson. This marked the third consecutive year the team was selected contemporaneously as nati onal champion by at least three math systems. However\, the Big Ten Confer ence did not allow its members to play postseason bowl games at the time\, a conference bylaw that would not be changed until 1946.\n\nTackle Ed Wid seth was named an All-American by Collier's/Grantland Rice\, Associated Pr ess\, INS\, NEA\, New York Sun\, Look Magazine\, New York Morning Telegram \, Hearst\, United Press International and Paramount News. Widseth and hal fback Andy Uram were named All-Big Ten first team.\n\nEd Widseth was award ed the Team MVP award.\n\nTotal attendance for the season was 247\,653\, w hich averaged to 49\,531. The season high for attendance was against Iowa. \n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_Minnesota_Golden_Gophers_football_t eam SUMMARY:Minnesota END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:pittsburgh DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19380101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19390101 DESCRIPTION:1937 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1937 Pittsburgh Panthers football team represented the University of Pittsburgh as an independent during the 1937 college football season. In i ts 14th season under head coach Jock Sutherland\, the team compiled a 9– 0–1 record\, shut out six of its ten opponents\, and outscored all oppon ents by a total of 203 to 34. The team played its home games at Pitt Stadi um in Pittsburgh. The Panthers were crowned national champions by the fina l AP poll\, which was released in late November\, and by most NCAA-designa ted major selectors.\n\nPitt was also awarded the Lambert-Meadowlands Trop hy as the champion of the East. An invitation to the Rose Bowl on New Year 's Day was declined.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937_Pittsburgh_Pant hers_football_team SUMMARY:Pittsburgh END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:tcu DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19390101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19400101 DESCRIPTION:1938 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1938 TCU Horned Frogs football team was an American football team tha t represented Texas Christian University (TCU) in the Southwest Conference (SWC) during 1938 college football season. In their fifth year under head coach Dutch Meyer\, the Horned Frogs compiled a perfect 11–0 record\, w on the SWC championship\, finished the season ranked No. 1 in the AP Poll\ , defeated Carnegie Tech in the 1939 Sugar Bowl\, and outscored opponents by a total of 269 to 60.\n\nAt the end of the 1938 season\, TCU quarterbac k Davey O'Brien won both the Heisman Trophy and the Maxwell Award as the o utstanding football player in the United States. He was the fourth player to receive the Heisman Trophy and the first from outside the Midwest or Ea st. During the 1938 season\, O'Brien completed 93 passes for 1\,509 yards and 19 touchdowns.\n\nTwo TCU players\, O'Brien and center Ki Aldrich\, we re consensus first-team picks on the 1938 All-America college football tea m. TCU tackle I. B. Hale was also selected as a first-team All-American by Liberty magazine.\n\nThe Horned Frogs played their home games in T.C.U. S tadium (later renamed Amon G. Carter Stadium)\, which is located on campus in Fort Worth\, Texas.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938_TCU_Horned_F rogs_football_team SUMMARY:TCU END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:texas-a-m DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19400101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19410101 DESCRIPTION:1939 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1939 Texas A&M Aggies football team represented the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas—now known as Texas A&M University—as a mem ber of the Southwest Conference (SWC) during the 1939 college football sea son. In their sixth year under head coach Homer Norton\, the Aggies compil ed a perfect 11-0 record for their first (and to date\, only) consensus na tional championship\, shut out six of eleven opponents\, won the Southwest Conference championship\, and outscored all opponents by a total of 212 t o 31.\n\nIn the final AP Poll released on December 12\, the Aggies were ra nked No 1 with 1\,091 points\, edging out Tennessee (970 points)\, USC (89 1 points)\, and Cornell (889 points). They went on to defeat No. 5 Tulane\ , 14–13\, in the 1940 Sugar Bowl.\n\nFullback John Kimbrough was a conse nsus pick on the 1939 All-America college football team. Kimbrough was ind ucted in 1954 into the College Football Hall of Fame.\n\nTackle Joe Boyd w as the team captain. He was also chosen as a first-team All-American by\, among others\, Grantland Rice for Collier's Weekly and the Sporting News.\ n\nFour Texas A&M players were selected by the United Press as first-team players on the 1939 All-Southwest Conference football team: Kimbrough\; Bo yd\; end Herbert Smith\; and guard Marshall Robnett.\n\nhttps://en.wikiped ia.org/wiki/1939_Texas_A%26M_Aggies_football_team SUMMARY:Texas A&M END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:minnesota-97db03 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19410101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19420101 DESCRIPTION:1940 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1940 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented the Universit y of Minnesota in the 1940 Big Ten Conference football season. In their ni nth year under head coach Bernie Bierman\, the Golden Gophers compiled an undefeated 8–0 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 154 to 71.\n\nThe team was selected national champion in the Associated Press Poll and by nine other NCAA-designated major selectors\, then and i n the decades since: Berryman\, Boand\, DeVold\, Dickinson\, Football Rese arch\, Houlgate\, Litkenhous\, National Championship Foundation\, Sagarin\ , Sagarin (ELO-Chess) The team did not play in a bowl game.\n\nTackle Urba n Odson was named an All-American by Liberty. Halfback George Franck was n amed an All-American by the Walter Camp Football Foundation\, Associated P ress\, United Press International\, Look Magazine and Collier's. Franck pl aced third in voting for the Heisman Trophy. Franck and Odson were also na med All-Big Ten first team.\n\nQuarterback Bob Paffrath received the Team MVP Award.\n\nTotal attendance for the season was 234\,990\, which average d to 46\,998. The season high for attendance was against Michigan.\n\nhttp s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1940_Minnesota_Golden_Gophers_football_team SUMMARY:Minnesota END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:minnesota-41a5ae DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19420101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19430101 DESCRIPTION:1941 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1941 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented the Universit y of Minnesota in the 1941 Big Ten Conference football season. In their te nth year under head coach Bernie Bierman\, the Golden Gophers compiled an undefeated 8–0 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 186 to 38. The team's national championship run in the days before the attack on Pearl Harbor was chronicled in journalist Danny Spewak's book\, "From the Gridiron to the Battlefield: Minnesota's March to a College Foot ball Title and into World War II\," published in 2021 by Rowman & Littlefi eld.\n\nThe team was selected national champion by eleven NCAA-designated major selectors in Associated Press\, Billingsley\, Boand\, DeVold\, Dunke l\, Football Research\, Helms\, Litkenhous\, National Championship Foundat ion\, Poling\, Sagarin\, Sagarin (ELO-Chess).\n\nHalfback Bruce Smith was named an All-American by the Walter Camp Football Foundation\, INS\, Time- Life\, United Press (UP)\, Associated Press (AP) and Look Magazine. Smith was also awarded the Heisman Trophy\, the only Golden Gopher to win the aw ard.\n\nTackle Dick Wildung was named an All-American by the Walter Camp F ootball Foundation\, INS\, Time Life\, AP and UPI. Wildung\, Smith\, halfb ack Bill Daley\, end Bob Fitch and guard Len Levy were named All-Big Ten.\ n\nBack Bob Sweiger was awarded the team most valuable player award.\n\nTo tal attendance for the season was 239\,227\, which averaged to 47\,845. Th e season high for attendance was against Northwestern.\n\nhttps://en.wikip edia.org/wiki/1941_Minnesota_Golden_Gophers_football_team SUMMARY:Minnesota END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:ohio-state DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19430101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19440101 DESCRIPTION:1942 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1942 Ohio State Buckeyes football team was an American football team that represented Ohio State University in the Big Ten Conference during th e 1942 season. In their second season under head coach Paul Brown\, the Bu ckeyes compiled a 9–1 record\, outscored opponents by a total of 337 to 114\, won the Big Ten championship\, and was ranked No. 1 in the final AP poll\, thus earning Ohio State their first ever national championship in p rogram history.\n\nThe team was led by wingback Les Horvath\, quarterback and team captain George Lynn\, and halfback Gene Fekete. Fekete led the Bi g 10 with 910 rushing yards.\n\nThe Buckeyes' only loss was to No. 3 Wisco nsin. Half of the Buckeye players contracted an intestinal disorder after drinking from an unsanitary drinking fountain on the train to Madison. Hor vath then led the Buckeyes to three scores through the air to upset Michig an.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1942_Ohio_State_Buckeyes_football_tea m SUMMARY:Ohio State END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:notre-dame DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19440101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19450101 DESCRIPTION:1943 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1943 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team represented the Universi ty of Notre Dame as an independent during the 1943 college football season . The Irish\, coached by Frank Leahy\, ended the season with 9 wins and 1 loss\, winning the national championship. The 1943 team became the fourth Irish team to win the national title and the first for Frank Leahy. Led b y Notre Dame's first Heisman Trophy winner\, Angelo Bertelli\, Notre Dame beat seven teams ranked in the top 13 and played seven of its ten games on the road. Despite a season ending loss to Great Lakes\, Notre Dame was aw arded its first national title by the Associated Press.\n\nhttps://en.wiki pedia.org/wiki/1943_Notre_Dame_Fighting_Irish_football_team SUMMARY:Notre Dame END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:army DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19450101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19460101 DESCRIPTION:1944 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1944 Army Cadets football team was an American football team that rep resented the United States Military Academy as an independent during the 1 944 college football season. In their fourth season under head coach Earl Blaik\, the Cadets compiled a perfect 9–0 record and outscored opponents by a total of 504 to 35. Army's 1944 season was part of a 32-game undefea ted streak that included the entire 1944\, 1945\, and 1946 seasons.\n\nIn the final AP Poll released on December 5\, Army was ranked No. 1 nationall y with 1\,165 points\, more than 200 points ahead of No. 2 Ohio State. Arm y was also recognized as the 1944 national champion by most other selector s\, both at the time and retroactively in later decades\, including the Bi llingsley Report\, Boand System\, College Football Researchers Association \, Dunkel System\, Helms Athletic Foundation\, Houlgate System\, National Championship Foundation\, Poling System\, and Sagarin Ratings. Army also w on the Lambert Trophy as the best football team in the east.\n\nArmy halfb ack Glenn Davis received the Maxwell Award as the best college football pl ayer of 1944. Davis and fullback Doc Blanchard were selected as consensus first-team players on the 1944 All-America college football team.\n\nSix p ersons affiliated with the 1944 Army team were later inducted into the Col lege Football Hall of Fame: head coach Blaik (inducted 1964)\; Blanchard ( inducted 1959)\; Davis (inducted 1961)\; end Barney Poole (inducted 1974)\ ; quarterback Doug Kenna (inducted 1984)\; and guard John Green (inducted 1989).\n\nThe team captain was Tom Lombardo. Other notable players include d tackle Tex Coulter\, guard Joe Stanowicz\, and center Robert St. Onge.\n \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1944_Army_Cadets_football_team SUMMARY:Army END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:army-5da774 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19460101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19470101 DESCRIPTION:1945 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1945 Army Cadets football team was an American football team that rep resented the United States Military Academy as an independent during the 1 945 college football season. In their fifth season under head coach Earl B laik\, the Cadets compiled a 9–0 record\, shut out five of nine opponent s (including a 48–0 victory over No. 2 Notre Dame and a 61–0 victory o ver No. 6 Penn)\, and outscored all opponents by a total of 412 to 46. Arm y's 1945 season was part of a 32-game undefeated streak that included the entire 1944\, 1945\, and 1946 seasons.\n\nIn the final AP poll released on December 2\, Army was unanimously ranked No. 1 nationally with 1\,160 poi nts\, more than 200 points ahead of No. 2 Navy. The Cadets repeated as win ners of the Dr. Henry L. Williams trophy for the AP national championship. Army also won the Lambert Trophy as the best football team in the east.\n \nAll eight other contemporary NCAA-designated major selectors also recogn ized Army as the 1945 national champion\, including the Boand System\, Dun kel System\, DeVold System\, Helms Athletic Foundation\, Houlgate System\, Litkenhous Ratings\, Poling System\, and Williamson System. Army also gar nered five retrospective selections by later major selectors Berryman (QPR S)\, Billingsley Report\, College Football Researchers Association\, and S agarin Ratings\; the National Championship Foundation selected them as co- champions with Alabama.\n\nThe team led the nation with an average of 462. 7 yards of total offense per game\, including 359.8 rushing yards per game . The offense was led by backs Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis. Blanchard sc ored 114 points in 1945 and received both the Heisman Trophy and the Maxwe ll Award as the best player in college football. Davis rushed for 944 yard s and led the nation with an average of 11.51 rushing yards per carry.\n\n Four Army players were consensus first-team picks on the 1945 All-America college football team: Blanchard\; Davis\; tackle Tex Coulter\; and guard John Green. In a departure from normal practice\, the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA) named all eleven Army starters as its All-American team for 1945. Other notable players included quarterback Arnold Tucker (NEA) and end Hank Foldberg.\n\nThe undefeated 1945 Army team was one of the str ongest of all time\, as during World War II\, loose player transfer rules allowed service academies to assemble many of the nation's best players.\n \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_Army_Cadets_football_team SUMMARY:Army END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:notre-dame-22445c DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19470101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19480101 DESCRIPTION:1946 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1946 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team was an American football team that represented the University of Notre Dame as an independent duri ng the 1946 college football season. In their fourth year under head coach Frank Leahy\, the Irish compiled an 8–0–1 and were ranked No. 1 in th e final AP Poll. The season also produced the 1946 Army vs. Notre Dame foo tball game\, a scoreless tie between undefeated teams ranked No. 1 and No. 2.\n\nThe 1946 Notre Dame team dominated both on defense and offense\, ra nking first nationally in total offense (441.3 yards per game)\, rushing o ffense (340.1 yards per game)\, and total defense (allowing 141.7 yards pe r game). Despite ranking as the nation's top rushing offense\, no Notre Da me player ranked among the national rushing leaders\, as multiple backs sh ared the rushing load\, including Emil Sitko (54 carries\, 346 yards)\, Te rry Brennan (74 carries\, 329 yards)\, Jim Mello (61 carries\, 307 yards)\ , Bill Gompers (51 carries\, 279 yards)\, and John Panelli (58 carries\, 2 65 yards).\n\nTwo Notre Dame players\, quarterback Johnny Lujack and tackl e George Connor\, were consensus first-team picks for the 1946 All-America college football team. Center George Strohmeyer and guard John Mastrange lo also received first-team All-America honors from multiple selectors.\n\ nFrom 1946 to 1949\, Notre Dame compiled a 36–0–2 record and claims th ree national championships. Sports Illustrated rated these Notre Dame team s as the second best sports dynasty (professional or collegiate) of the 20 th century and second greatest college football dynasty.\n\nhttps://en.wik ipedia.org/wiki/1946_Notre_Dame_Fighting_Irish_football_team SUMMARY:Notre Dame END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:notre-dame-607ea3 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19480101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19490101 DESCRIPTION:1947 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1947 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team represented the Universi ty of Notre Dame during the 1947 college football season. The Irish\, coa ched by Frank Leahy\, ended the season with 9 wins and no losses\, winning a share of the national championship. The 1947 team became the sixth Iris h team to win a national title and the second in a row for Leahy. The squa d is the second team in what is considered to be the Notre Dame Football d ynasty\, a stretch of games in which Notre Dame went 36–0–2 and won th ree national championships and two Heisman Trophies from 1946 to 1949. The 1947 team was cited by Sports Illustrated as part of the second best spor ts dynasty (professional or collegiate) of the 20th century and second gre atest college football dynasty.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947_Notr e_Dame_Fighting_Irish_football_team SUMMARY:Notre Dame END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:michigan DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19490101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19500101 DESCRIPTION:1948 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1948 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan during the 1948 Big Nine Conference football season. In its first year under head coach Bennie Oosterbaan\, Michigan compiled a 9–0 recor d\, defeated six ranked opponents by a combined score of 122–17\, won th e Big Nine Conference and repeated as national champions. In the final AP Poll\, Michigan received 192 first place votes\, twice as many as second-p lace Notre Dame which garnered 97 first place votes. This remained the las t national title won by the Wolverines until 1997\, and was the last conse nsus national title won by the Wolverines overall until 2023.\n\nThe 1948 season was Michigan's second straight undefeated\, untied season. After Fr itz Crisler led the 1947 team to a perfect 10–0 record\, the Wolverines entered the 1948 season with a 14-game winning streak dating back to Octob er 1946. Despite the loss of all four backfield starters from the 1947 te am (including Big Nine MVP Bump Elliott and Heisman Trophy runner-up Bob C happuis)\, the 1948 team extended the winning streak to 23 games.\n\nOn of fense\, Michigan was led by a new backfield that included All-American qua rterback Pete Elliott and halfbacks Chuck Ortmann and Leo Koceski. The tea m scored 252 points\, an average of 28 points per game. With Ortmann as t he principal passer\, the Wolverines relied on an air attack\, gaining mor e yards in the air (1\,355) than on the ground (1\,262). Dick Rifenburg\, the team's leading receiver\, was picked as a first-team All-American at the end position. Team captain Dominic Tomasi was selected as the team's Most Valuable Player. The 1949 Michiganensian wrote of the 250-pound guar d\, "Famous for his sharp shattering blocking\, Dom tore huge gaps in the opposing lines to pave the way for Michigan's steam roller offense."\n\nOn defense\, the Wolverines allowed only 44 points\, an average of 4.8 point s per game. The defense was led by tackles Alvin Wistert and Al Wahl\, ce nter Dan Dworsky\, and fullback Dick Kempthorn. Michigan gave up 935 passi ng yards and 851 rushing yards. The team shut out Oregon despite the pass ing game of College and Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Norm Van Bro cklin. It also held ranked Purdue and Northwestern teams to 36 and 47 rus hing yards\, respectively. The defense forced a total of 32 turnovers (in cluding 21 interceptions)\, an average of three-and-a-half turnovers per g ame.\n\nAs of 2026\, the 1947–48 Michigan Wolverines remain the last Big Ten team to repeat as national champions.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wik i/1948_Michigan_Wolverines_football_team SUMMARY:Michigan END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:notre-dame-3d8218 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19500101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19510101 DESCRIPTION:1949 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1949 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team represented the Universi ty of Notre Dame during the 1949 college football season. The Irish\, coa ched by Frank Leahy\, ended the season with 10 wins and no losses\, winnin g the national championship. The 1949 team became the seventh Irish team t o win the national title and the third in four years. Led by Heisman winne r Leon Hart\, the Irish outscored their opponents 360–86. The 1949 team is the last team in what is considered to be the Notre Dame Football dynas ty\, a stretch of games in which Notre Dame went 36–0–2 and won three national championships and two Heisman Trophies. The Irish squad was cited by Sports Illustrated as the part of the second-best sports dynasty (prof essional or collegiate) of the 20th century and second greatest college fo otball dynasty.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1949_Notre_Dame_Fighting_ Irish_football_team SUMMARY:Notre Dame END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:oklahoma DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19510101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19520101 DESCRIPTION:1950 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1950 Oklahoma Sooners football team represented the University of Okl ahoma in the 1950 college football season\, the 56th season of Sooner foot ball. Led by fourth-year head coach Bud Wilkinson\, they played their home games at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman\, and competed in the Big Se ven Conference.\n\nThe Sooners finished the regular season 10–0 (6–0 i n Big 7)\, and won their fifth consecutive conference championship\, and e leventh overall. Both major polls (AP writers\, UP coaches) awarded the So oners with their first national championship at the end of the regular sea son. They were invited to the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans on New Year's Day\ , but were upset 13–7 by the Kentucky Wildcats\, halting their winning s treak at 32 games.\n\nFive Sooners received All-American honors following the season: Frankie Anderson\, Buddy Jones\, Leon Heath\, and Jim Weathera ll. In addition\, eight sooners won all conference honors\, Anderson\, Cla ude Arnold\, Tom Catlin\, Heath\, Norman McNabb\, Harry Moore\, Billy Vess els\, and Weatherall.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950_Oklahoma_Soone rs_football_team SUMMARY:Oklahoma END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:tennessee DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19520101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19530101 DESCRIPTION:1951 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1951 Tennessee Volunteers football team represented the University of Tennessee in the 1951 college football season. In his next to last seaso n as head coach\, Robert Neyland led the Vols to their second consecutive national title and the fourth during his tenure. The 1951 title was also t he first undisputed\, at the time\, national title in school history. Mary land has since been retroactively credited with the 1951 national champion ship by several selectors\, including analyst Jeff Sagarin\, as they went undefeated that year and beat Tennessee in the Sugar Bowl. At the time\, t he AP awarded the title before the bowl games were played. 1951 was also N eyland's ninth undefeated regular season in his career. The 1950 Tennessee team had gone 11–1\, winning its last nine games and capping the season off with a victory over Texas in the Cotton Bowl. In 1951\, The Vols put together a 10–0 regular season and were voted national champs by the AP Poll before the bowl season began\, as was the convention at the time. In addition to AP\, Tennessee was named national champion by NCAA-designated major selectors Litkenhous\, United Press International (coaches poll)\, and Williamson\, leading to a consensus national champion designation.\n\n The game against Alabama on the Third Saturday in October that season was the first ever nationally televised game for both teams. The Vols were a d ominant team in the regular season\, winning their first nine games by a c ombined score of 338 to 61 before thwarting a spirited effort by in-state rival Vanderbilt in the last game of the regular season\, 35–27.\n\nhttp s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1951_Tennessee_Volunteers_football_team SUMMARY:Tennessee END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:michigan-state DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19530101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19540101 DESCRIPTION:1952 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1952 Michigan State Spartans football team was an American football t eam that represented Michigan State College as an independent during the 1 952 college football season. In their sixth year under head coach Biggie M unn\, the Spartans recorded a perfect 9–0 record\, outscored opponents b y a total of 312 to 84\, and were recognized as the 1952 national champion . The season was part of a 28-game winning streak that began in October 19 50 and continued until October 1953.\n\nIn the final AP Poll released on D ecember 1\, 1952\, Michigan State was ranked No. 1 with 2\,683 points\, mo re than 400 points ahead of No. 2 Georgia Tech. The Spartans also finished with the No. 1 ranking in the final UPI coaches poll. The team was also r ecognized as the 1952 national champion in later analyses issued by the Bo and System\, DeVold System\, Dunkel System\, College Football Researchers Association\, Helms Athletic Foundation\, Litkenhous\, National Championsh ip Foundation\, Sagarin Ratings\, and Williamson System. It was Michigan S tate's first consensus national championship. Five other selectors chose G eorgia Tech as national champion. It was also Michigan State's last year a s a football independent\, as the Spartans became a football member of the Big Ten Conference in 1953.\n\nFour Michigan State players were recognize d on the 1952 All-America college football team: back Don McAuliffe (first -team honors from the United Press\, All-America Board\, and Collier's)\; center Dick Tamburo (first-team honors from the Associated Press\, Central Press Association\, and International News Service)\; guard Frank Kush (f irst-team honors from the Associated Press)\; and end Ed Luke (second-team honors from the Associated Press).\n\nThe team's statistical leaders incl uded quarterback Tom Yewcic with 941 passing yards\, halfback Billy Wells with 585 rushing yards\, end Ellis Duckett with 323 receiving yards\, and halfbacks Don McAuliffe and Leroy Bolden with 54 points each.\n\nhttps://e n.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952_Michigan_State_Spartans_football_team SUMMARY:Michigan State END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:maryland DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19540101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19550101 DESCRIPTION:1953 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1953 Maryland Terrapins football team represented the University of M aryland in the 1953 college football season in its first season as a membe r of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). Maryland outscored its opponents 298–38 and recorded six defensive shutouts. Jim Tatum served as the hea d coach for the seventh year of his nine-year tenure. In the postseason\, Maryland lost to Oklahoma in the 1954 Orange Bowl. The team was selected n ational champion by Associated Press\, International News Service\, and Un ited Press International\, leading to a consensus national champion design ation.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Maryland_Terrapins_football_t eam SUMMARY:Maryland END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:ohio-state-16b212 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19550101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19560101 DESCRIPTION:1954 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1954 Ohio State Buckeyes football team represented the Ohio State Uni versity in the 1954 Big Ten Conference football season. The team was led by quarterback Dave Leggett and captains John Borton and Dick Brubaker. Th ey were the second national title team in Ohio State football history. The y were coached by Hall of Fame coach Woody Hayes. The Buckeyes were awarde d the title by the AP Poll and represented the Big Ten Conference in the R ose Bowl.\n\nThe Buckeyes finished the 1953 season with a record of 6–3. They were ranked #20 in the preseason AP Poll\, but dropped out of the fi rst in-season poll\, which was issued before their season opener. However\ , six weeks later\, the Buckeyes had risen to the top of the AP Poll. Thei r rise from unranked to #1 in six weeks stood as an AP Poll record for 60 years until being broken by Mississippi State in 2014. The Buckeyes defeat ed six ranked teams to capture their first league title under fourth year Coach Hayes.\n\nLed by their powerful defense\, the Bucks beat the #2 Wisc onsin Badgers and their eventual Heisman Trophy winner Alan Ameche on an 8 8-yard interception return by Howard "Hopalong" Cassady\, who won the awa rd the following year. The Buckeye defense forced 35 turnovers during the season and allowed only two teams to score more than one touchdown\n\nIn their game against the Michigan Wolverines\, the Bucks held a goal-line st and and then drove 99 yards for a touchdown. The AP Poll declared the Buck s to be number one while the UPI Coaches Poll opted for the 9–0\, Pacif ic Coast Conference champion the UCLA Bruins. However\, because of the "no repeat rule" the Bruins were locked out of the Rose Bowl leaving the Buck eyes to play second place USC.\n\nThe 1955 Rose Bowl was played during a r ainstorm in poor field conditions. However\, Ohio State managed to gain 30 4 yards and hold the Trojans to only six first downs. USC's only score cam e on an 86-yard punt return. The team finished 10–0 for the first time in school history.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Ohio_State_Buckey es_football_team SUMMARY:Ohio State END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:oklahoma-280f3e DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19560101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19570101 DESCRIPTION:1955 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1955 Oklahoma Sooners football team was an American football team tha t represented the University of Oklahoma in the Big Seven Conference (Big 7) during the 1955 college football season. Led by ninth-year head coach B ud Wilkinson\, the Sooners compiled an 11–0 record\, outscored opponents by a total of 385 to 60\, won the Big 7 and national championships\, and defeated No. 3 Maryland\, 20–6\, in the 1956 Orange Bowl. In the Orange Bowl\, Oklahoma trailed by six at halftime\, and then outscored Maryland\, 20–0\, in the second half. Oklahoma's 1955 season was the school's tent h consecutive conference championship and part of a record-setting 47-game winning streak that lasted from October 10\, 1953\, through November 9\, 1957.\n\nThe Sooners played their home games at Owen Field in Norman\, Okl ahoma.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955_Oklahoma_Sooners_football_tea m SUMMARY:Oklahoma END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:oklahoma-79e464 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19570101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19580101 DESCRIPTION:1956 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1956 Oklahoma Sooners football team was an American football team tha t represented the University of Oklahoma during the 1956 college football season. In their tenth season under head coach Bud Wilkinson\, the Sooners compiled a 10–0 record and repeated as consensus national champions. Th e Sooners were led on offense by quarterback Jim Harris and played their h ome games at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman\, Oklahoma.\n\nAfter anot her undefeated season\, Oklahoma was first in both final polls in early De cember. Their winning streak was up to forty games\, but they did not play in a bowl game due to the Big Seven's no-repeat rule\; runner-up Colorado was invited to and won the Orange Bowl.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ 1956_Oklahoma_Sooners_football_team SUMMARY:Oklahoma END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:auburn DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19580101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19590101 DESCRIPTION:1957 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1957 Auburn Tigers football team was an American football team that r epresented Alabama Polytechnic Institute (Auburn) in the Southeastern Conf erence (SEC) during the 1957 college football season. In their seventh sea son under head coach Ralph "Shug" Jordan\, the Tigers compiled a perfect 1 0–0 record (7–0 in the SEC)\, shut out six of ten opponents\, won the SEC championship\, and outscored all opponents by a total of 207 to 28.\n\ nThe national championship was split with Auburn No. 1 in the AP Poll and Ohio State\, despite one loss\, ranked No. 1 by the UPI coaches poll\, Foo tball Writers Association of America and International News Service. In la ter analyses\, Auburn was chosen as national champion by the majority of s electors\, including the Billingsley Report\, College Football Researchers Association\, Helms Athletic Foundation\, National Championship Foundatio n\, Poling System\, Sagarin Ratings\, and Williamson System. It also marke d Auburn's first SEC title\, and first outright conference title since win ning the Southern Conference in 1932.\n\nThe team was ineligible for a bow l game after one of Jordan's assistants was caught paying two prospective recruits $500 each.\n\nAuburn end Jimmy Phillips was a consensus first-tea m pick on the 1957 All-America college football team. Phillips and fellow end Jerry Wilson were both selected as first-team picks on the 1957 All-SE C football team. Center Jackie Burkett\, tackle Ben Preston\, and back Bil l Atkins were named to the All-SEC second team.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.or g/wiki/1957_Auburn_Tigers_football_team SUMMARY:Auburn END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:lsu DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19590101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19600101 DESCRIPTION:1958 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1958 LSU Tigers football team represented Louisiana State University (LSU) in American football during the 1958 college football season. After finishing the season with a 10–0 record the team was named consensus nat ional champion by the Associated Press (AP) and the Coaches Poll (UPI). LS U was also selected National Champions by a total of 37 selectors. \n\nThi s was LSU's second national championship recognized by the NCAA and the co llege football community at large\, the first coming when the Tigers were retro-picked as national champions in 1908 by the National Championship Fo undation. However\, it is the first national championship claimed by the s chool. It was also LSU's first undefeated and untied season since 1908\, a nd was the last undefeated season for the school until 2019. This was LSU ’s last consensus national championship until 2007.\n\nThe Tigers were c oached by Paul Dietzel in his fourth season and competed in the Southeaste rn Conference (SEC)\, in which the team earned its third SEC championship and sixth conference championship overall.\n\nThe Tigers were led by a bac kfield of Louisiana locals Billy Cannon\, Warren Rabb\, and Johnny Robinso n\, all of whom received first-team All-SEC honors after the season. The team is perhaps most remembered for coach Paul Dietzel's unique "three-pla toon system"\, of which the "Chinese Bandits" were a part.\n\nhttps://en.w ikipedia.org/wiki/1958_LSU_Tigers_football_team SUMMARY:LSU END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:syracuse DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19600101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19610101 DESCRIPTION:1959 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1959 Syracuse Orangemen football team represented Syracuse University in Syracuse\, New York\, as an independent during the 1959 college footba ll season. Led by eleventh-year head coach Ben Schwartzwalder\, the indepe ndent Orangemen were undefeated and won the school's only national champio nship in football\, topping the rankings by wide margins in the final poll s in early December.\n\nThey met fourth-ranked Texas in the Cotton Bowl Cl assic in Dallas on New Year's Day. They led 15–0 at halftime and 23–6 after the three quarters. Texas scored midway through the fourth quarter t o draw to 23–14\, but there was no further scoring\, and Syracuse gained its first bowl win. Unranked at the start of the season\, Syracuse finish ed with an 11–0 record with five shutouts\, and outscored its opponents 413–73.\n\nNotable players included sophomore running back Ernie Davis\, winner of the Heisman Trophy in 1961 and the first selection of the 1962 NFL draft. In the Cotton Bowl Classic\, he scored the first two touchdowns and threw a pass to Gerhard Schwedes for the third. Davis was helped by a n offensive line that included unanimous first team All-American guard Rog er Davis.\n\nThe team was named national champion by AP\, Billingsley\, Bo and\, DeVold\, Football News\, Football Research\, Football Writers\, Helm s\, Litkenhous\, NCF\, NFF\, Poling\, Sagarin (ELO-Chess)\, UPI\, and Wil liamson\, leading to a consensus national champion designation.\n\nhttps:/ /en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959_Syracuse_Orangemen_football_team SUMMARY:Syracuse END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:minnesota-2a41b6 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19610101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19620101 DESCRIPTION:1960 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1960 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented the Universit y of Minnesota in the Big Ten Conference during the 1960 college football season. In their seventh year under head coach Murray Warmath\, the Golden Gophers compiled an 8–2 record and outscored their opponents 228 to 88. \n\nThe Gophers were led by Sandy Stephens\, the first African-American Al l-American starting quarterback at the school. Murray Warmath entered his seventh season as the Minnesota head football coach on the heels of three consecutive losing seasons. Expectations to start the season were not very high as the Golden Gophers were not ranked by a single news service. The Gophers opened the season with a 26–14 non-conference win at No. 12 Nebr aska. They shut out both Indiana and Northwestern\, then also blanked Mich igan 10–0 at Michigan Stadium to win the Little Brown Jug. A win over no n-conference Kansas State put Minnesota at No. 3. The next game at No. 1 I owa was one of the most notable games in the Floyd of Rosedale rivalry. Mi nnesota won 27–10 and were top-ranked\, but then lost to Purdue the next week. After Minnesota cruised to a 26–7 victory over Wisconsin\, the Go phers were tied with Iowa in the Big Ten standings\, each with a loss. The final AP poll of November 29 was one of the closest ever: Minnesota with 17½ first-place votes\, Mississippi 16\, and Iowa 12½. The Golden Gopher s had earned their fourth AP national championship and first-ever trip to the Rose Bowl in the process.\n\nAlthough No. 6 Washington upset No. 1 Min nesota 17–7 in the Rose Bowl in January\, the post-season loss did not a ffect the Golden Gophers' national championship since the final AP and Coa ches' Polls were released at the conclusion of the regular season in late November and did not consider the bowl results. This led to Minnesota bein g the first two-loss national champion in college football history. The ma jor wire-service polls changed this policy in 1965 (AP) and 1974 (Coaches) .\n\nGuard Tom Brown received the team's Most Valuable Player award\, was a consensus first-team All-American\, won the Outland Trophy\, finished se cond in the Heisman Trophy voting\, and received the Chicago Tribune Silve r Football\, given to the Big Ten most valuable player. Brown\, end Tom Ha ll\, and center Greg Larson were named All-Big Ten first team. Tackle Fran k Brixius was named an Academic All-American and Academic All-Big Ten.\n\n Total attendance at five home games was 334\,954\, an average of 55\,825 p er game. The largest crowd was against Illinois.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.o rg/wiki/1960_Minnesota_Golden_Gophers_football_team SUMMARY:Minnesota END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:alabama DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19620101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19630101 DESCRIPTION:1961 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1961 Alabama Crimson Tide football team (variously "Alabama"\, "UA" o r "Bama") represented the University of Alabama in the 1961 college footba ll season. It was the Crimson Tide's 67th overall and 28th season as a mem ber of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The team was led by head coach B ear Bryant\, in his fourth year\, and played their home games at Denny Sta dium in Tuscaloosa\, Legion Field in Birmingham and Ladd Stadium in Mobile \, Alabama. They finished season undefeated with eleven wins (11–0 overa ll\, 7–0 in the SEC)\, with a victory over Arkansas in the Sugar Bowl an d as consensus national champions. The 1961 national championship was the first of the six that Bear Bryant would win as head coach of the Crimson T ide.\n\nAlabama opened the season with a win over Georgia on the road in w eek one\, and then defeated Tulane in its first home game at Ladd Stadium in week two. After they won their second road game of the season at Vander bilt\, Alabama returned to Tuscaloosa where they defeated NC State in the first Denny Stadium game of the season. The next week\, Alabama defeated T ennessee for the first time since the 1954 season in the first Legion Fiel d game of the year.\n\nThe Crimson Tide then defeated Houston in their fin al road game of the season and then returned home and defeated Mississippi State on homecoming in Tuscaloosa. The next week Alabama scored their mos t points in a game since the 1951 season when they defeated Richmond\, 66 –0. They then closed the regular season with wins over Georgia Tech and Auburn in the Iron Bowl. At the end of the regular season\, they were rank ed No. 1 in both the AP writers poll and the UPI coaches poll. The Crimson Tide then closed the season with a victory over Arkansas in the Sugar Bow l.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Alabama_Crimson_Tide_football_tea m SUMMARY:Alabama END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:usc DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19630101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19640101 DESCRIPTION:1962 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1962 USC Trojans football team represented the University of Southern California (USC) in the 1962 NCAA University Division football season. In their third year under head coach John McKay\, the Trojans compiled an 11 –0 record (4–0 against conference opponents)\, won the Athletic Associ ation of Western Universities (AAWU or Big 6) championship\, and defeated Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day. USC outscored their opponent s 261 to 92\, and finished first in both major polls\, released prior to t he bowls.\n\nJunior quarterback Pete Beathard completed 54 of 107 passes f or 989 yards with ten touchdown passes and only one interception. (Bill N elsen also completed 36 of 80 passes for 682 yards and eight touchdown pas ses with two interceptions.) Willie Brown was the team's leading rusher w ith 574 rushing yards (and 291 receiving yards). Hal Bedsole was USC's lea ding receiver with 33 catches for 827 yards and 11 touchdowns. Bedsole was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2012.\n\nTwo USC playe rs were selected by the Associated Press (AP) for the All-Coast team\; end Bedsole and linebacker Damon Bame. Bedsole was a consensus All-American i n 1962\, while Bame received first-team honors from the AP.\n\nhttps://en. wikipedia.org/wiki/1962_USC_Trojans_football_team SUMMARY:USC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:texas DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19640101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19650101 DESCRIPTION:1963 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1963 Texas Longhorns football team was an American football team that represented the University of Texas (now known as the University of Texas at Austin) as a member of the Southwest Conference (SWC) during the 1963 NCAA University Division football season. In their seventh year under head coach Darrell Royal\, the Longhorns compiled an overall record of 11–0\ , with a mark of 7–0 in conference play\, and finished as SWC champion. Texas concluded their season with a victory over Navy in the Cotton Bowl C lassic.\n\nThe Longhorns won their first national championship. Tommy Nobi s was the only sophomore starter\, and was an important participant on the Longhorns' 1963 team\, which defeated #2 Navy led by Heisman Trophy winne r Roger Staubach in the 1964 Cotton Bowl Classic\, 28–6.\n\nhttps://en.w ikipedia.org/wiki/1963_Texas_Longhorns_football_team SUMMARY:Texas END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:alabama-6c4479 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19650101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19660101 DESCRIPTION:1964 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1964 Alabama Crimson Tide football team (variously "Alabama"\, "UA" o r "Bama") represented the University of Alabama in the 1964 NCAA Universit y Division football season. It was the Crimson Tide's 70th overall and 31s t season as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The team was le d by head coach Bear Bryant\, in his seventh year\, and played their home games at Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa\, Legion Field in Birmingham and Ladd Stadium in Mobile\, Alabama. They finished the season with ten wins and o ne loss (10–1 overall\, 8–0 in the SEC)\, as SEC champions and with a loss to Texas (a team Arkansas defeated in Austin\, TX) in the Orange Bowl . As the major wire services at that time awarded their national champions prior to the bowl season\, Alabama was also recognized as national champi ons by the AP and UPI before their loss to Texas. After the bowl games\, the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA) named the undefeated Ar kansas Razorbacks as the national champions.\n\nThe Crimson Tide opened th e season ranked in the No. 6 position with wins at Tuscaloosa against Geor gia\, against Tulane in Mobile and at Birmingham against Vanderbilt. After a victory over NC State in their first non-conference game of the season\ , Alabama defeated Tennessee in their first road game of the season at Ney land Stadium. The Crimson Tide then returned to Tuscaloosa where they defe ated a Steve Spurrier-led Florida team on homecoming before their second r oad victory at Mississippi State at Jackson.\n\nAlabama then defeated LSU in a newly expanded Legion Field and captured the SEC championship\, and t he next week defeated Georgia Tech in what was the final game of their ann ual series. In the annual Iron Bowl against Auburn\, the Crimson Tide comp leted an undefeated regular season with their victory and accepted a bid t o play Texas in the Orange Bowl. Although recognized as national champions at the conclusion of the regular season\, Alabama closed the season with a loss to the Texas Longhorns in the Orange Bowl.\n\nAfter the regular sea son in late November\, quarterback Joe Namath was the first selection of t he 1965 AFL draft\, taken by the New York Jets. In addition to Namath\, el even other lettermen from the 1964 squad were selected in the 1965 NFL dra ft.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Alabama_Crimson_Tide_football_te am SUMMARY:Alabama END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:alabama-38ea53 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19660101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19670101 DESCRIPTION:1965 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1965 Alabama Crimson Tide football team (variously "Alabama"\, "UA" o r "Bama") represented the University of Alabama in the 1965 NCAA Universit y Division football season. It was the Crimson Tide's 71st overall and 32n d season as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The team was le d by head coach Bear Bryant\, in his eighth year\, and played their home g ames at Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa\, Legion Field in Birmingham and Ladd Stadium in Mobile\, Alabama. They finished season with nine wins\, one los s and one tie (9–1–1 overall\, 6–1–1 in the SEC)\, as SEC champion s and with a victory over Nebraska in the Orange Bowl. Alabama was also re cognized as national champions by the AP Poll after their Orange Bowl win. \n\nAlabama opened the season ranked No. 5\, but were upset by Georgia 18 –17 in the first game of the season. They rebounded with their first win of the season over Tulane and followed that with a 17–16 win over Ole M iss in a game in which Alabama had to rally from a nine-point fourth quart er deficit for the victory. The next week\, the Crimson Tide defeated Vand erbilt in Nashville before they returned home for their rivalry game again st Tennessee. Against the Volunteers\, the score was deadlocked 7–7 in t he closing seconds\, but Alabama had driven to the Tennessee four-yard lin e. Ken Stabler believing that it was third down\, threw the ball out of bo unds with six seconds left to stop the clock. However\, it was actually fo urth down\, possession went to Tennessee\, and the game ended in a tie.\n\ nAfter the tie\, the Crimson Tide won five in a row over Florida State\, M ississippi State\, LSU\, South Carolina and Auburn en route to Bryant's fo urth SEC title at Alabama. Because the Associated Press was holding its vo te until after the bowl games instead of before for the first time\, No. 4 Alabama still had a chance to win the national championship when they pla yed No. 3 Nebraska in the Orange Bowl. On New Year's Day\, No. 1 Michigan State lost in the Rose Bowl and No. 2 Arkansas lost in the Cotton Bowl Cla ssic\, and Alabama defeated Nebraska 39–28 in the Orange Bowl and captur ed its third AP National Championship in five years.\n\nhttps://en.wikiped ia.org/wiki/1965_Alabama_Crimson_Tide_football_team SUMMARY:Alabama END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:notre-dame-fe7f7e DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19670101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19680101 DESCRIPTION:1966 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1966 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team was an American football team that represented the University of Notre Dame as an independent duri ng the 1966 NCAA University Division football season. In their second seas on under head coach Ara Parseghian\, the Irish compiled a 9–0–1 record \, shut out six of ten opponents\, outscored all opponents by a total of 3 62 to 38\, and were ranked No. 1 in the final AP and UPI Polls. In four ga mes against ranked opponents\, they defeated No. 7 Purdue (26–14)\, No. 10 Oklahoma (38–0)\, and No. 10 USC (51–0)\, and tied with No. 2 Michi gan State (10–10). The 1966 Notre Dame vs. Michigan State football game is considered one of the great "games of the century".\n\nNotre Dame lineb acker Jim Lynch won the Maxwell Award as the best all-around player in col lege football. Lynch\, guard Tom Regner\, halfback Nick Eddy\, and defensi ve end Alan Page were consensus first-team selections on the 1966 All-Amer ica college football team. Defensive tackles Pete Duranko and Kevin Hardy also received first-team All-America honors from multiple seectors. The te am's statistical leaders included quarterback Terry Hanratty (1\,247 passi ng yards)\, Eddy (553 rushing yards\, 60 points scored)\, end Jim Seymour (862 receiving yards)\, and Lynch (106 tackles).\n\nThe team played its ho me games at Notre Dame Stadium in Notre Dame\, Indiana.\n\nhttps://en.wiki pedia.org/wiki/1966_Notre_Dame_Fighting_Irish_football_team SUMMARY:Notre Dame END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:usc-91e204 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19680101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19690101 DESCRIPTION:1967 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1967 USC Trojans football team represented the University of Southern California (USC) in the 1967 NCAA University Division football season. In their eighth year under head coach John McKay\, the Trojans compiled a 10 –1 record (6–1 against conference opponents)\, won the Athletic Associ ation of Western Universities (AAWU or Pac-8) championship\, and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 258 to 87. The team was ranked #1 in the final AP and Coaches Polls.\n\nSteve Sogge led the team in passing\ , completing 75 of 151 passes for 1\,032 yards with seven touchdowns and s even interceptions. O. J. Simpson led the team in rushing with 291 carrie s for 1\,543 yards and 13 touchdowns. Earl McCullouch led the team in rece iving with 30 catches for 540 yards and five touchdowns. Simpson won the W alter Camp Award.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_USC_Trojans_footba ll_team SUMMARY:USC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:ohio-state-c4ee24 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19690101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19700101 DESCRIPTION:1968 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1968 Ohio State Buckeyes football team is an American football team t hat represented the Ohio State University in the 1968 Big Ten Conference f ootball season. It is considered one of the strongest in OSU history\, fie lding 11 All-Americans and six first-round NFL draft picks. With quarterba ck Rex Kern and running back Jim Otis leading a powerful OSU offense and J ack Tatum on defense\, Woody Hayes' Buckeyes capped an undefeated season w ith a dominating 50–14 victory over archrival Michigan and a come-from-b ehind 27–16 victory over defending national champion USC in the 1969 Ros e Bowl to secure their first consensus national title since 1942. This was also the first year the Buckeye players were awarded Buckeye pride sticke rs for their helmets\, each one a reward for a good play. This would be Oh io State's last outright national championship until 2002. Perhaps the big gest highlight of the year for the Buckeyes was their upset of No. 1 Purdu e in their third game.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Ohio_State_Bu ckeyes_football_team SUMMARY:Ohio State END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:texas-b81849 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19700101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19710101 DESCRIPTION:1969 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1969 Texas Longhorns football team represented the University of Texa s at Austin in the 1969 NCAA University Division football season. The Long horns won all eleven games to win their second consensus national champion ship\; the first was six seasons earlier in 1963. This was the last consen sus title won by the Longhorns until 2005.\n\nThe 1969 team is the last al l-white team to be named consensus national champions with the onset of ra cial integration. Julius Whittier\, the first African-American player in T exas football history\, was enrolled at UT as a freshman but was not eligi ble to play\; NCAA rules of the time barred freshmen from playing varsity football and basketball.\n\nRanked fourth to start the year\, the #2 Longh orns defeated rival Oklahoma by ten points on October 11\, and gained the top spot in the polls in late November. On December 6\, #1 Texas traveled to Fayetteville to meet second-ranked Arkansas\; down by fourteen points i n the fourth quarter\, UT rallied to win 15–14 in the season's "Game of the Century\," attended by President Richard Nixon who presented a plaque to Texas and declared them the national champions. With a wishbone option offense\, the Longhorns won all ten games in the regular season\, and retu rned to the Cotton Bowl Classic in Fair Park in Dallas.\n\nOn New Year's D ay 1970\, the Longhorns met ninth-ranked Notre Dame\, in its first bowl ga me in 45 years and second overall\; their only previous postseason appeara nce was a win in the 1925 Rose Bowl. Trailing for most of the game\, Texas scored with 68 seconds remaining and won 21–17\, validating Nixon's cla m. On their final drive\, the Longhorns faced fourth down twice. It was th eir twentieth consecutive victory\, second straight Cotton Bowl Classic ti tle\, and third win that season in the stadium.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.or g/wiki/1969_Texas_Longhorns_football_team SUMMARY:Texas END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:nebraska DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19710101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19720101 DESCRIPTION:1970 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1970 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team represented the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. The team was coached by Bob Devaney and played their home games in Memoria l Stadium in Lincoln. The Huskers went 11–0–1 to win their first nati onal championship in school history.\n\nThe Huskers started the season at No. 9 and tied No. 3 USC in Los Angeles in the second game of the season. After winning their next nine games\, including all seven in the Big Eigh t\, Nebraska was ranked No. 3 in the nation entering the Orange Bowl again st No. 5 LSU of the SEC. Top-ranked Texas and No. 2 Ohio State both lost t heir bowl games earlier in the day and a 17–12 Nebraska victory that nig ht in Miami gave the Cornhuskers their first national championship in scho ol history.\n\nThrough the 1973 season\, the final UPI Coaches' Poll was r eleased in early December\, before the bowl games. In 1970 it picked Texas as national champion on December 8\, before the Longhorns' 24–11 loss t o Notre Dame in the Cotton Bowl in Dallas on New Year's Day. Notre Dame (1 0–1) finished second to Nebraska in the final AP Poll\, released after t he bowls in early January.\n\nThe 1970 Cornhuskers championship season was notable for Devaney's rotation of two quarterbacks – Van Brownson and J erry Tagge – in every game.\n\nPresident Richard Nixon honored Nebraska' s 1970 national championship team and head coach Bob Devaney with the pres entation of a presidential plaque (noting the team's No. 1 ranking in the final AP Poll and Orange Bowl victory) during a January 14\, 1971\, celebr ation at the Nebraska Coliseum.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970_Nebr aska_Cornhuskers_football_team SUMMARY:Nebraska END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:nebraska-bf232d DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19720101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19730101 DESCRIPTION:1971 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1971 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team represented the University of Nebraska in the Big Eight Conference during the 1971 NCAA University Divi sion football season. The Cornhuskers were led by tenth-year head coach Bo b Devaney and played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln.\n\nT he Cornhuskers finished the season undefeated at 13–0\, repeating as nat ional champions. They outscored their 13 opponents 507 to 104\, held ten o f them to single-digit points or fewer (including three shutouts)\, and fa mously defeated second-ranked Oklahoma on the road in a game that has been referred to as the "Game of the Century". In the years since\, the 1971 N ebraska team has been cited by some sports pundits as the greatest in coll ege football history.\n\nThe 1971 Cornhuskers were one of the most dominan t teams in college football history\, winning twelve of their thirteen gam es by 24 points (or more) and defeating the next three teams in the final AP poll. The sole close game of the season was the Game of the Century at No. 2 Oklahoma on Thanksgiving. Nebraska decisively beat No. 3 Colorado (t hen No. 9) 31–7 in Lincoln and No. 4 Alabama (then No. 2) 38–6 in the Orange Bowl in Miami\, capturing the consensus national championship.\n\nh ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Nebraska_Cornhuskers_football_team SUMMARY:Nebraska END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:usc-d42527 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19730101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19740101 DESCRIPTION:1972 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1972 USC Trojans football team represented the University of Southern California (USC) during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season . The Trojans won all twelve of their games\, outscored their opponents 46 7–134\, and were consensus national champions.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.o rg/wiki/1972_USC_Trojans_football_team SUMMARY:USC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:notre-dame-afc8c9 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19740101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19750101 DESCRIPTION:1973 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1973 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team represented the Universi ty of Notre Dame during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. The Iri sh\, coached by Ara Parseghian\, ended the season undefeated with 11 wins and no losses\, winning the national championship. The Fighting Irish won the title by defeating the previously unbeaten and No. 1 ranked Alabama C rimson Tide in the 1973 Sugar Bowl by a score of a 24–23. The 1973 squad became the ninth Irish team to win the national title and the second unde r Parseghian. Although Notre Dame finished No. 1 in the AP Poll to claim t he AP national title\, they were not awarded the Coaches title despite bei ng the last undefeated team at the end of the season\, since Alabama was a warded the Coaches Poll title before the bowl season.\n\nParseghian's seco nd national title team was led by its relentless rushing attack. Fullback Wayne Bullock (750 yards)\, halfback Art Best (700 yards)\, halfback Eric Penick (586 yards) and quarterback Tom Clements (360 yards) comprised one of the fastest Irish backfields\, with Penick and Best clocking in under 1 0 seconds in the 100-yard dash. The Irish started the season strong\, amas sing large margins of victory over Northwestern\, Rice and Army to set up a highly anticipated contest with No. 6 and unbeaten USC. USC came into th e contest riding a 23-game unbeaten streak\, and USC's star tailback Antho ny Davis ran over the Irish the previous year for 6 touchdowns in a 45–2 3 Trojan victory. Moreover\, Parseghian had not outright beaten USC since 1966. The Irish defense responded to the challenge\, limiting Davis to 55 yards on 19 carries. The star tailback of the day was Notre Dame's Penick\ , who ran for 118 yards\, 50 more than the entire Trojan team. The Irish w on the contest 23–14 and won their remaining games. After Notre Dame acc epted the Sugar Bowl bid\, the stage was set to determine the national cha mpionship. Alabama was awarded the UPI title before the bowl season\, but it was Notre Dame that won it on the field\, winning 24–23 in a thriller that had six lead changes. Notre Dame jumped to a 6–0 lead\, but Alabam a answered with a Randy Billingsley 6-yard touchdown run. Al Hunter then s cored on a 93-yard kickoff return\, and Clements completed a two-point con version pass to Pete Demmerle to give the Irish a 14–7 (which would turn out to be the widest margin in the game). Alabama scored a field goal to close the halftime deficit to 14–10\, and then went on a 93-yard touchdo wn march in the third quarter to regain the lead. Notre Dame answered with a 12-yard touchdown run by Eric Penick to go back in front\, 21–17. In the fourth quarter\, three turnovers occurred in 90 seconds\, with Alabama coming out on top and capitalizing on a halfback pass from Mike Stock to quarterback Richard Todd for a 25-yard touchdown to take a slim 23–21 le ad\, but the Tide missed the crucial extra point. Notre Dame responded\, w ith Tom Clements driving the Irish 79 yards in 11 plays and setting up a p otential field goal on a clutch 15-yard pass to tight end Dave Casper. Iri sh kicker Bob Thomas kicked a field goal to give the Irish a slim 24–23 victory and the AP national title.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_N otre_Dame_Fighting_Irish_football_team SUMMARY:Notre Dame END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:oklahoma-c81109 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19750101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19760101 DESCRIPTION:1974 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1974 Oklahoma Sooners football team represented the University of Okl ahoma in the 1974 NCAA Division I football season. This was the first of three national championship squads for head coach Barry Switzer. Only one opponent played the Sooners within 14 points and four failed to score a to uchdown. At the same time\, OU led the nation in scoring offense with an a verage of 43 points per game to finish the season as the only undefeated t eam in the country at 11–0.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974_Oklaho ma_Sooners_football_team SUMMARY:Oklahoma END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:oklahoma-86c365 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19760101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19770101 DESCRIPTION:1975 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1975 Oklahoma Sooners football team represented the University of Okl ahoma in the 1975 NCAA Division I football season. The team was helmed by Barry Switzer in his third season as head coach. After sailing through the ir first eight games\, Oklahoma suffered a surprising home loss to Kansas\ , which snapped a 28-game winning streak. With only two regular season ga mes and a bowl trip left\, any hopes for a repeat national championship lo oked slim. \n\nOU defeated Missouri\, 28–27\, in Columbia before coming home to defeat second-ranked Nebraska\, 35–10 to take the Big 8 Conferen ce title. With the conference title in tow\, the No. 3-ranked Sooners\, in their first bowl game under Switzer\, headed to the Orange Bowl to meet M ichigan. \n\nPrior to the Orange Bowl\, the Sooners moved from #3 to #2 i n the polls when previous No. 2 Texas A&M was routed 31-6 in its regular s eason finale by Southwest Conference rival Arkansas at Little Rock Dec. 6. \n\nOU prevailed in that game with a 14–6 victory and was pushed to th e top spot in the polls when #1 Ohio State fell 23-10 to UCLA in the Rose Bowl (the Buckeyes defeated the Bruins 41-20 at Los Angeles during the reg ular season). \n\nOklahoma won its 27th conference and fifth national cham pionship.\n\nThe Sooners served their third season of NCAA probation in 19 75. They were banned from appearing on television during the regular seaso n\, but the portion of the probation banning them from bowl games was lift ed (Oklahoma did not play in a bowl game in 1973\, but appeared twice on t elevision\; it was banned from both television and bowl games in 1974). Ok lahoma returned to television for the Orange Bowl.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/1975_Oklahoma_Sooners_football_team SUMMARY:Oklahoma END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:pittsburgh-a507ae DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19770101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19780101 DESCRIPTION:1976 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1976 Pittsburgh Panthers football team represented the University of Pittsburgh as an independent during the 1976 NCAA Division I football seas on and is recognized as a consensus national champion. Pitt was also award ed the Lambert-Meadowlands Trophy as the best Division I team in the East. The Panthers played their home games at Pitt Stadium in Pittsburgh\, Penn sylvania.\n\nDuring the 1970s\, the top-ranked team won its bowl game only three times: Pittsburgh joined Nebraska (1971) and USC (1972).\n\nIn the first game of the 1976 season\, the Panthers faced off against Notre Dame in South Bend\, Indiana. A year earlier\, Tony Dorsett had finished with 303 yards rushing in Pitt's 34–20 victory over the Irish. "They even gre w the grass high\," said Carmen DeArdo\, a diehard Pitt alumnus\, "and eve ryone knew Tony would get the ball." "They didn't let that grass grow lon g enough\," Dorsett said later. He darted 61 yards on his first run of the season and tacked on 120 more by the end of the 31–10 Pitt win.\n\nThe season continued with a 42–14 win at Georgia Tech and a 36–19 win over Miami. The Panthers traveled to Annapolis on October 23 to face Navy and Dorsett broke the NCAA career rushing record on a 32-yard touchdown run in the 45–0 victory. Dorsett's achievement prompted a mid-game celebration in which even Navy saluted the feat with a cannon blast. Pitt won a tough \, hard-fought battle against struggling rival Syracuse.\n\nOn November 6\ , the second-ranked Panthers hosted Army at Pitt Stadium and won handily\, but the significant action was taking place several hundred miles west\, in West Lafayette\, Indiana\, where the Purdue Boilermakers held off the t op-ranked Michigan Wolverines 16–14 in the closing seconds. The Pitt Sta dium crowd erupted in celebration when the stadium public address announce r dramatically gave the final score from Purdue. For the first time in the modern era\, Panther fans could legitimately claim\, "We're number one!" Pitt defended its ranking in a close Backyard Brawl against West Virginia to go 10–0 heading into the regular season finale on national television against instate rival Penn State (7–3).\n\nAt a packed Three Rivers Sta dium on the night after Thanksgiving\, the Nittany Lions scored first and held Dorsett to 51 yards in the first half\; the game was tied at seven at halftime. Majors adjusted for the second half by shifting Dorsett from ta ilback to fullback\, enabling him to explode for an additional 173 yards a s Pitt rolled to a 24–7 victory to cap an undefeated regular season.\n\n In December\, Dorsett became the first (and remains the only) Pitt Panther to win the Heisman Trophy as the nation's best college football player. D orsett also won the Maxwell Award\, the Walter Camp Player of the Year Awa rd\, and was named UPI Player of the Year. He led the nation in rushing wi th 1\,948 yards and was selected as an All-American. Dorsett finished his college career with 6\,082 total rushing yards\, then an NCAA record for c areer rushing.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Pittsburgh_Panthers_f ootball_team SUMMARY:Pittsburgh END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:notre-dame-970b9a DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19780101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19790101 DESCRIPTION:1977 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1977 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team represented the Universi ty of Notre Dame during the 1977 NCAA Division I football season. The Iri sh\, coached by Dan Devine\, ended the season with 11 wins and one loss\, winning the national championship. The Fighting Irish won the title by de feating the previously unbeaten and No. 1 ranked Texas Longhorns in the Co tton Bowl Classic by a score of a 38–10. The 1977 squad became the tenth Irish team to win the national title and were led by All-Americans Ken Ma cAfee\, Ross Browner\, Luther Bradley\, and Bob Golic. Junior Joe Montana\ , a future Pro Football Hall of Famer\, was the team's starting quarterbac k.\n\nDan Devine entered his third year as head coach\, coming off of a 9 –3 season in 1976 that culminated in a Gator Bowl win over Penn State. D evine returned a highly touted defense\, featuring 1976 Outland Trophy win ner Ross Browner\, defensive end Willie Fry\, and All-American linebacker Bob Golic. On offense\, quarterback Joe Montana earned the starting job an d led an offense that included running backs Jerome Heavens and Vagas Ferg uson and All-American tight end Ken MacAfee. Montana\, earned a reputatio n as "the comeback kid"\, had two come from behind victories in the fourth quarter\, against Purdue and Clemson\, down 17 and 10 respectively. Aft er a surprising loss to unranked Ole Miss\, patience among the fans was ru nning thin\, who considered Devine's previous 8–3 and 9–3 seasons as lackluster compared to the team success under Devine's predecessor\, Ara P arseghian. The Irish rebounded to win their remaining games\, including a 49–19 rout of USC in the now famous "Green Jersey Game." The Irish earn ed a berth in the Cotton Bowl Classic\, where they defeated No. 1 and unbe aten Texas by a score of 38–10 to capture Notre Dame's tenth national ti tle. The Irish leaped four spots in the polls after the Cotton Bowl Classi c victory to claim the consensus title.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1 977_Notre_Dame_Fighting_Irish_football_team SUMMARY:Notre Dame END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:alabama-9d6c84 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19790101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19800101 DESCRIPTION:1978 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1978 Alabama Crimson Tide football team (variously "Alabama"\, "UA" o r "Bama") represented the University of Alabama in the 1978 NCAA Division I-A football season. It was the Crimson Tide's 84th overall and 45th seaso n as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The team was led by he ad coach Bear Bryant\, in his 21st year\, and played their home games at B ryant–Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa and Legion Field in Birmingham\, Alaba ma. They finished season with eleven wins and one loss (11–1 overall\, 6 –0 in the SEC)\, as SEC champions and as national champions after a 14 –7 victory over Penn State in the Sugar Bowl.\n\nAlabama's costumed "Big Al" mascot officially debuted this season\, appearing at the Sugar Bowl.\ n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_Alabama_Crimson_Tide_football_team SUMMARY:Alabama END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:alabama-5c0500 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19800101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19810101 DESCRIPTION:1979 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1979 Alabama Crimson Tide football team (variously "Alabama"\, "UA" o r "Bama") represented the University of Alabama in the 1979 NCAA Division I-A football season. It was the Crimson Tide's 85th overall and 46th seaso n as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The team was led by he ad coach Bear Bryant\, in his 22nd year\, and played their home games at B ryant–Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa and Legion Field in Birmingham\, Alaba ma. They finished the season undefeated (12–0 overall\, 6–0 in the SEC ) and with a victory over Arkansas in the Sugar Bowl. For their collective efforts\, the Crimson Tide were recognized as unanimous national champion s for the 1979 season.\n\nIn 1979 the Alabama Crimson Tide capped off a de cade of success with the program's seventh perfect season in college histo ry after 1925\, 1930\, 1934\, 1945\, 1961\, and 1966 (discounting the 1897 "season" in which Bama played and won only one game). The Tide defense re corded five shutouts and allowed only two teams to score in double digits. The offense scored thirty points or more seven times.\n\nDespite this dom inance Alabama had three close calls. Against Tennessee on October 20\, Al abama fell behind 17–0 in the second quarter before rallying to win 27 –17. Three weeks later\, against LSU\, all the Tide offense could scrape up was a single field goal\, but it was enough to win 3–0. In the regul ar season finale against Auburn\, after leading 14–3 at the half Alabama let Auburn take an 18–17 fourth quarter lead before winning 25–18. Th e Auburn and Tennessee games were the only two times in the 1979 season th at Alabama trailed. A 24–9 victory over Arkansas capped a 12–0 season and national championship\, Alabama's sixth wire service national title.\n \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_Alabama_Crimson_Tide_football_team SUMMARY:Alabama END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:georgia DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19810101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19820101 DESCRIPTION:1980 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1980 Georgia Bulldogs football team represented the University of Geo rgia during the 1980 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Bulldogs compl eted the season with a 12–0 record. The Bulldogs had a regular season So utheastern Conference (SEC) record of 6–0. The Bulldogs completed their season with a 17–10 victory over Notre Dame in the Sugar Bowl.\n\nThe te am was named national champion by NCAA-designated major selectors of Assoc iated Press\, Berryman\, Billingsley\, Football News\, Football Writers\, Helms\, National Championship Foundation\, National Football Foundation\, Poling System\, Sporting News\, and UPI (coaches)\, while co-champion by R othman and Sagarin (ELO-Chess)\, resulting in a consensus national champio n designation.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Georgia_Bulldogs_foot ball_team SUMMARY:Georgia END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:clemson DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19820101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19830101 DESCRIPTION:1981 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1981 Clemson Tigers football team represented Clemson University in t he Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) during the 1981 NCAA Division I-A footb all season. The Tigers were led by head coach Danny Ford and played their home games in Memorial Stadium. Clemson finished their undefeated 1981 s eason with a 22–15 victory over the No. 4 Nebraska Cornhuskers in the 19 82 Orange Bowl\, and were voted No. 1 in the Associated Press (AP) and Uni ted Press International (UPI) polls.\n\nThis was Clemson’s last national championship until 2016.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Clemson_Ti gers_football_team SUMMARY:Clemson END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:penn-state DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19830101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19840101 DESCRIPTION:1982 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1982 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented Pennsylvania State University as an independent during the 1982 NCAA Division I-A footb all season. Led by 17th-year head coach Joe Paterno\, the Nittany Lions co mpiled a record of 11–1. Penn State defeated the Georgia Bulldogs\, 27 –23\, in the Sugar Bowl to win Paterno's first consensus national champi onship. The team was selected national champion by AP\, Billingsley\, DeVo ld\, Dunkel\, FACT\, FB News\, Football Research\, FW\, Litkenhous\, Matth ews\, NCF\, NFF\, The New York Times\, Poling\, Sagarin\, Sagarin (ELO-Che ss)\, Sporting News\, UPI/coaches\, and USA/CNN\, while named co-champion by Helms.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Penn_State_Nittany_Lions_f ootball_team SUMMARY:Penn State END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:miami-fl DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19840101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19850101 DESCRIPTION:1983 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1983 Miami Hurricanes football team represented the University of Mia mi as an independent during the 1983 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their 58th season of football\, the \\ Hurricanes were led by fifth-year head coach Howard Schnellenberger and played their home games at the Orang e Bowl.\n\nUnranked\, Miami lost their opener at Florida by 25 points\, bu t finished the regular season at 10–1\, ranked fifth\, and were invited to the Orange Bowl. Playing at home on January 2\, the underdog Hurricanes upset top-ranked Nebraska 31–30\, denying a two-point conversion attemp t with less than a minute remaining. They climbed to first in the major po lls to win the school's first national championship.\n\nhttps://en.wikiped ia.org/wiki/1983_Miami_Hurricanes_football_team SUMMARY:Miami (FL) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:byu DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19850101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19860101 DESCRIPTION:1984 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1984 BYU Cougars football team represented Brigham Young University ( BYU) in the 1984 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Cougars were led b y 13th-year head coach LaVell Edwards and played their home games at Couga r Stadium in Provo\, Utah. The team competed as a member of the Western At hletic Conference\, winning the conference for the ninth consecutive year. The Cougars finished the regular season as the only undefeated team in Di vision I-A\, and secured their first ever national title by defeating Mich igan in the 1984 Holiday Bowl.\n\nA number of pollsters and coaches were r eluctant to name the Cougars as national champion\, partly because they be lieved BYU's schedule was too weak. Only two of BYU's opponents won at lea st seven games. They had played only one ranked opponent all season\, pres eason #3 Pittsburgh\, a team that would finish 3–7–1 and unranked. No other team in the WAC was even close to being their equal\; the Cougars we re the only team in the league with fewer than four overall losses. In the end\, BYU was ranked number one in both major final polls\, the AP Poll a nd the Coaches Poll. The team was named national champion by NCAA-designat ed major selectors of AP\, Billingsley\, Football Research\, FW\, National Football Foundation\, Poling\, UPI\, and USA/CNN\, while named co-champi on by both National Championship Foundation and Sagarin (ELO-Chess).\n\nTo date\, the 1984 Cougars are the last team from outside a "power conferenc e" to win a national title. It is widely believed that the various systems devised over the years with a view toward deciding the national champions hip on the field\, with their emphasis on strength of schedule\, make it e xtremely difficult for a team outside the power conferences to be consider ed for championship contention.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_BYU_ Cougars_football_team SUMMARY:BYU END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:oklahoma-0c08ed DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19860101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19870101 DESCRIPTION:1985 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1985 Oklahoma Sooners football team represented the University of Okl ahoma in the 1985 NCAA Division I-A football season. This year was Barry S witzer's 13th season as head coach. The Sooners ended this season with 11 wins and a sole loss coming to the Miami Hurricanes in Norman\, in a game in which the Sooners lost starting quarterback Troy Aikman for the season. The Sooners were forced to place their trust in freshman quarterback Jame lle Holieway and a physical defense featuring three All-Americans\, who le d them to a Big 8 Conference title and a national championship. This was O klahoma's sixth national championship and 34th conference championship in school history.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_Oklahoma_Sooners_foo tball_team SUMMARY:Oklahoma END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:penn-state-a7ad83 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19870101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19880101 DESCRIPTION:1986 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1986 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylva nia State University as an independent during the 1986 NCAA Division I-A f ootball season. Led by 21st-year head coach Joe Paterno\, the Nittany Lion s compiled a record of 12–0. Penn State defeated the Miami Hurricanes\, 14–10\, in the 1987 Fiesta Bowl to win Paterno's second consensus nation al championship. The team was named national champion by AP\, Billingsley\ , FB News\, FW\, Matthews\, NCF\, NFF\, Sporting News\, UPI\, and USA/CNN\ , while named co-champion by FACT\, Sagarin (ELO-Chess).\n\nhttps://en.wik ipedia.org/wiki/1986_Penn_State_Nittany_Lions_football_team SUMMARY:Penn State END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:miami-fl-54e60e DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19880101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19890101 DESCRIPTION:1987 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1987 Miami Hurricanes football team represented the University of Mia mi as an independent during the 1987 NCAA Division I-A football season. It was the program's 62nd season of competition. Led by fourth-year head coa ch Jimmy Johnson\, the Hurricanes compiled a perfect record of 12–0 over all with a victory in the Orange Bowl over Oklahoma\, to win the program's second national championship. The team played home games at the Miami Ora nge Bowl in Miami.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987_Miami_Hurricanes_ football_team SUMMARY:Miami (FL) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:notre-dame-ac625e DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19890101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19900101 DESCRIPTION:1988 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1988 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team was an American football team that represented the University of Notre Dame as an independent duri ng the 1988 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their third year head un der coach Lou Holtz\, the Irish compiled a perfect 12–0 record\, outscor ed opponents by a total of 359 to 135\, and were ranked No. 1 in the final AP and UPI polls. \n\nEn route to the national championship\, the Irish defeated teams that finished the season ranked No. 2 (Miami (FL))\, No. 4 (Michigan)\, No. 5 (West Virginia in the Fiesta Bowl)\, and No. 7 (USC) in the final AP poll. The 1988 Fighting Irish have been rated as one of the best teams in the history of college football. The team's victory over Mi ami\, colloquially referred to as the "Catholics vs. Convicts" game\, ende d the Hurricanes' 36-game regular season winning streak\, and is considere d one of the most memorable games in all of college football history.\n\nL inebacker Michael Stonebreaker and defensive end Frank Stams were consensu s first-team picks on the 1988 All-America college football team. Offensiv e tackle Andy Heck also received first-team All-America honors from the As sociated Press and United Press International. The team's statistical lead ers included quarterback Tony Rice (1\,176 passing yards\, 700 rushing yar ds) and Rocket Ismail (321 receiving yards\, 431 kickoff return yards). \n \nThe team played its home games at Notre Dame Stadium in Notre Dame\, Ind iana.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_Notre_Dame_Fighting_Irish_foot ball_team SUMMARY:Notre Dame END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:miami-fl-09f4d8 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19900101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19910101 DESCRIPTION:1989 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1989 Miami Hurricanes football team represented the University of Mia mi as an independent during the 1989 NCAA Division I-A football season. It was the Hurricanes' 64th season of football. The Hurricanes were led by f irst-year head coach Dennis Erickson and played their home games at the Or ange Bowl. They finished the season 11–1 overall. They were invited to t he Sugar Bowl where they defeated Alabama\, 33–25\, to win the program's third national championship.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Miami_ Hurricanes_football_team SUMMARY:Miami (FL) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:colorado DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19910101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19920101 DESCRIPTION:1990 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1990 Colorado Buffaloes football team represented the University of C olorado Boulder as a member of the Big Eight Conference during the 1990 NC AA Division I-A football season. The Buffaloes offense scored 338 points w hile the defense allowed 160 points. Led by head coach Bill McCartney\, Co lorado defeated Notre Dame 10–9 in the 1991 Orange Bowl to conclude the season.\n\nDespite the infamous Fifth Down Game controversy against a 4 –7 Missouri Tigers football team\, Colorado was selected national champi ons by AP\, Berryman\, Billingsley\, DeVold\, FB News\, Football Resear ch\, FW\, Matthews\, NFF\, Sporting News\, and USA/CNN\, and co-champion b y both FACT and NCF -all NCAA-designated major selectors. Georgia Tech too k the UPI Coaches poll title\, with both Washington and Miami receiving na tional titles from other selectors.\n\nGeorgia Tech finished the season un defeated (with its record only blemished by a tie)\, and subsequently spli t the national championship with Colorado.\n\nThe victory in the Orange Bo wl was Colorado's first bowl win in nineteen years.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedi a.org/wiki/1990_Colorado_Buffaloes_football_team SUMMARY:Colorado END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:miami-fl-6f8257 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19920101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19930101 DESCRIPTION:1991 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1991 Miami Hurricanes football team represented the University of Mia mi during the 1991 NCAA Division I-A football season. It was the Hurricane s' 66th season of football and first as a member of the Big East Conferenc e. The Hurricanes were led by third-year head coach Dennis Erickson and pl ayed their home games at the Orange Bowl. They finished the season 12–0 overall and 2–0 in the Big East while playing a partial conference sched ule. They were invited to the Orange Bowl where they defeated Nebraska\, 2 2–0. The Hurricanes were named as national champions by the AP poll\, th e program's fourth national championship. Washington\, who also finished 1 2–0 overall\, were named as champions by the Coaches Poll.\n\nhttps://en .wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Miami_Hurricanes_football_team SUMMARY:Miami (FL) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:alabama-ac701e DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19930101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19940101 DESCRIPTION:1992 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1992 Alabama Crimson Tide football team represented the University of Alabama as a member of the Western Division of the Southeastern Conferenc e (SEC) during the 1992 NCAA Division I-A football season. This was the te am's third season under head coach Gene Stallings. They played their home games at both Bryant–Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa\, Alabama and Legion Fi eld in Birmingham\, Alabama. They finished the season undefeated with a re cord of 13–0 (8–0 in the SEC) and as national champions. The team was noted especially for its strong defense\, which led the nation in fewest p oints allowed (9.2 per game during the regular season) and\, in a strong b owl game performance\, prevented defending national champion Miami from sc oring an offensive touchdown.\n\nThe 1992 Crimson Tide won their 20th SEC title by defeating the Florida Gators 28–21 on December 5 in the inaugur al SEC Championship Game. The team then capped off Alabama's eighth perfec t season by winning the 1992 national football championship\, defeating th e heavily favored Miami Hurricanes 34–13 in the 1993 Sugar Bowl on Janua ry 1\, 1993\, a matchup resulting from the first ever Bowl Coalition natio nal championship game. This was the last national championship won by the Tide until 2009.\n\nAlabama celebrated 100 years of football in the 1992 s eason.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Alabama_Crimson_Tide_football _team SUMMARY:Alabama END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:florida-state DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19940101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19950101 DESCRIPTION:1993 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1993 Florida State Seminoles football team represented Florida State University as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) during the 1 993 NCAA Division I-A football season. Led by 18th-year head coach Bobby B owden\, the Seminoles compiled an overall record of 12–1 with a mark of 8–0 in conference play\, winning the ACC title for the second consecutiv e season. Florida State was invited to the Orange Bowl\, the Bowl Coalitio n's national championship game\, where the Seminoles defeated Nebraska to capture the program’s first consensus College football national champion ships in NCAA Division I FBS. The team played home games at Doak Campbell Stadium in Tallahassee\, Florida\n\nQuarterback Charlie Ward became the fi rst Florida State player to win the Heisman Trophy\, as college football's most outstanding player. Ward\, who threw for 3\,032 yards and completed 70 percent of his passes\, became the first player to win the Heisman Trop hy and the national championship in the same season since Pittsburgh's Ton y Dorsett in 1976. The Seminoles topped college football in both scoring d efense and scoring offense\, with its offense scoring an average of 43.2 p oints a game and the defense giving up an average of 9.4 points per game.\ n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Florida_State_Seminoles_football_tea m SUMMARY:Florida State END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:nebraska-4f77ee DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19950101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19960101 DESCRIPTION:1994 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1994 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team represented the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and was the national champion of the 1994 NCAA Divisio n I-A football season. The team was coached by Tom Osborne and played thei r home games in Memorial Stadium in Lincoln\, Nebraska. The Cornhuskers o ffense scored 459 points while the defense allowed 162 points.\n\nhttps:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Nebraska_Cornhuskers_football_team SUMMARY:Nebraska END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:nebraska-ca4c84 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19960101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19970101 DESCRIPTION:1995 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1995 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team represented the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and was the national champion of the 1995 NCAA Divisio n I-A football season. The team was coached by Tom Osborne and played thei r home games in Memorial Stadium in Lincoln\, Nebraska. The Cornhuskers sc ored 638 points (53.2 per game) while only allowing 174 (14.5 per game). T heir average margin of victory was 38.7 points\, and their lowest margin o f victory\, against Washington State\, was 14 points. The Cornhuskers suc cessfully defended their 1994 national championship by defeating 2nd ranke d Florida 62–24 in the Fiesta Bowl\, at the time the second largest marg in of victory ever between a No. 1 and No. 2 school (behind 1945 Army 48 –0 over Notre Dame). The team is widely regarded as the greatest college football team of all time.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Nebraska _Cornhuskers_football_team SUMMARY:Nebraska END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:florida DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19970101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19980101 DESCRIPTION:1996 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1996 Florida Gators football team represented the University of Flori da in the sport of American football during the 1996 NCAA Division I-A foo tball season. The 1996 season was the team's seventh under head coach Stev e Spurrier. The Gators competed in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and p layed their home games at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium on the university's Gai nesville\, Florida campus.\n\nThe Gators posted a 12–1 record and won th eir fifth consecutive SEC Eastern Division title\, their fourth straight S EC Championship Game\, and their first national championship in team histo ry\, with a 52–20 Sugar Bowl rout of their in-state rivals\, the Florida State Seminoles.\n\nThe Gators used coach Spurrier's pass-heavy "fun 'n g un" offense". Quarterback Danny Wuerffel won the Heisman Trophy. Wuerffel as well as his wide receivers Ike Hilliard and Reidel Anthony were consens us All-Americans. The Gators outscored their opponents 612–221.\n\nThe 1 996 Gators were the last first-time national champions until Indiana in 20 25.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Florida_Gators_football_team SUMMARY:Florida END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:michigan-412599 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19980101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19990104 DESCRIPTION:1997 national champion in the Associated Press's final poll.\n\ nThe 1997 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1997 Big Ten Conference football season. In its third year under head coach Lloyd Carr\, Michigan compiled a perfect 12–0 record\, won the Big Ten Conference championship\, and defeated Washington State i n the 1998 Rose Bowl. Michigan was declared the national champion by the A ssociated Press\, the National Football Foundation\, and the Football Writ ers Association of America. The Wolverines finished second to the Nebraska Cornhuskers in the Coaches Poll resulting in a non-consensus national cha mpionship.\n\nMichigan's defense was led by cornerback and Heisman Trophy- winner Charles Woodson. Woodson\, who intercepted eight passes and also sc ored touchdowns via pass receptions\, runs from scrimmage and punt return\ , became the first primarily defensive player to win the Heisman. Woodson and defensive end Glen Steele were both first-team selections on the 1997 College Football All-America Team. Other standouts on defense included lin ebackers James Hall with 8.5 quarterback sacks\, Sam Sword with 91 tackles \, and Dhani Jones with 90 tackles and six sacks. The defense allowed no f ourth quarter points or second half touchdowns in the first eight games of the season. The unit's performance across all games in total defense (222 .8 yards per game) and scoring defense (9.5 points per game) are the lowes t marks by any Big Ten Conference football team since the 1985 season.\n\n On offense\, the 1997 Michigan team had neither a 1000-yard rusher nor a 5 00-yard receiver. Tai Streets was the leading receiver with 476 receiving yards\, and Chris Howard led the team in rushing with 938 rushing yards. Q uarterback Brian Griese set Michigan single-season records with 193 pass c ompletions and 307 pass attempts. Tight end Jerame Tuman\, who was the onl y player on the offensive unit selected as a first-team All-American\, tot aled 437 receiving yards and five touchdowns. Future National Football Lea gue (NFL) star Tom Brady was also on the roster\, but did not start any ga mes.\n\nTen members of the team were honored as All-Big Ten Conference sel ections\, and running back Anthony Thomas was named the Big Ten Freshman o f the Year. Thirty-one members of the 1997 Wolverines football team went o n to play in the NFL. Prior to 1997\, the Wolverines had compiled four con secutive four-loss seasons and had not won a national championship since t he 1948 Michigan team. This was the most recent national championship for Michigan until the 2023 season.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_Mich igan_Wolverines_football_team SUMMARY:Michigan END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:tennessee-da9649 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19990104 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20000104 DESCRIPTION:Won the 1998 BCS National Championship (Fiesta Bowl).\n\nThe 19 98 Tennessee Volunteers football team represented the University of Tennes see as a member of the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference (SE C) during the 1998 NCAA Division I-A football season. Led by sixth-year he ad coach Phillip Fulmer\, the Volunteers compiled an overall record of 13 –0 with a mark of 8–0\, winning the SEC's Eastern Division title. Tenn essee advanced to the SEC Championship Game\, where the Volunteers defeate d Mississippi State to secure the conference championship. Tennessee was t hen invited to the Fiesta Bowl\, the inaugural BCS National Championship G ame\, where the Volunteers defeated Florida State to the program's second undisputed national title\, and sixth overall. The team played home games at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville\, Tennessee.\n\nTennessee was expected to have a slight fall-off after their conference championship the previous se ason. They had lost quarterback Peyton Manning\, wide receiver Marcus Nash \, and linebacker Leonard Little to the National Football League (NFL). Ma nning was the first pick overall in the 1998 NFL draft. Tennessee was also coming off a difficult 42–17 loss to Nebraska in the Orange Bowl\, and were in the midst of a five-game losing streak to the rival Florida Gators . Nonetheless\, the Volunteers beat eight bowl teams\, including six Janua ry bowl teams\, four top-ten teams\, and three Bowl Championship Series (B CS) bowl-bound teams\, and completed the program's first undefeated season in 60 years.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Tennessee_Volunteers_f ootball_team SUMMARY:Tennessee END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:florida-state-436160 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20000104 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20010103 DESCRIPTION:Won the 1999 BCS National Championship (Sugar Bowl).\n\nThe 199 9 Florida State Seminoles football team represented the Florida State Univ ersity as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) during the 1999 NCAA Division I-A football season. Led by 24th-year head coach Bobby Bowde n\, the Seminoles compiled an overall record of 12–0 with a mark of 8– 0 in conference play\, winning the ACC title. Florida State was invited to the Sugar Bowl\, the BCS National Championship Game\, where they defeated Virginia Tech to capture the program's second consensus College football national championship. The team played home games at Doak Campbell Stadium in Tallahassee\, Florida.\n\nFlorida State entered the season with high e xpectations after losing to Tennessee in the inaugural BCS Championship ga me. The Seminoles were ranked No. 1 in all national preseason polls\, pick ed unanimously to win the ACC and expected to contend for a national champ ionship. The Seminoles finished 11–2 in 1998\, extending their NCAA reco rd to 13 straight seasons with at least 10 victories and ranked among the nation's top four teams.\n\nThe Seminoles were first team in NCAA history to go "wire-to-wire" ranked continuously as the nation's No. 1 team from t he preseason through the bowl season. This marked the 13th consecutive sea son that the Seminoles finished in the top 5 of both the AP and Coaches po ll. 1999 was also the 17th consecutive season in which Bowden led the Semi noles to a bowl game.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Florida_State_ Seminoles_football_team SUMMARY:Florida State END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:oklahoma-11d66e DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20010103 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20020103 DESCRIPTION:Won the 2000 BCS National Championship (Orange Bowl).\n\nThe 20 00 Oklahoma Sooners football team represented the University of Oklahoma i n the 2000 NCAA Division I-A football season\, the 106th season of Sooner football. The team was led by Bob Stoops in his second season as head coac h. They played their home games at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman. Du ring this season\, they competed in the Big 12 Conference.\n\nThe Sooners opened the season ranked #19\, the first time they had made it into a pre- season poll in five years.\n\nAfter four early-season victories against un ranked foes\, Oklahoma had risen to #10 in the country.\n\nBeginning at th e end of September\, OU defeated #11 Texas (63–14)\, #2 Kansas State (41 –31)\, and #1 Nebraska (31–14). By that point\, the Sooners had risen to #1 in the polls\, a position they retained through the rest of the seas on.\n\nThe 2000 team claimed OU’s first Big 12 title and its 37th confer ence title overall by beating Kansas State in the Big 12 conference champi onship game.\n\nThe Sooners were invited to the 2001 Orange Bowl\, which s erved as the BCS National Championship Game that year\, where they beat th e defending national champion Florida State Seminoles by a score of 13–2 . The Sooners finished the season 13-0\, claiming Oklahoma's seventh natio nal championship in football and first since 1985.\n\nThree OU players wer e named consensus All Americans after the 2000 season: linebacker Rocky Ca lmus\, quarterback Josh Heupel\, and free safety J. T. Thatcher.\n\nhttps: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Oklahoma_Sooners_football_team SUMMARY:Oklahoma END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:miami DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20020103 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20030103 DESCRIPTION:Won the 2001 BCS National Championship (Rose Bowl).\n\nThe 2001 Miami Hurricanes football team represented the University of Miami during the 2001 NCAA Division I-A football season. It was the Miami Hurricanes' 76th season of football and 11th as a member of the Big East Conference. T he Hurricanes were led by first-year head coach Larry Coker and played the ir home games at the Orange Bowl. They finished the season 12–0 overall and 7–0 in the Big East to finish as conference champion. They were invi ted to the Rose Bowl\, which served as the BCS National Championship Game\ , and defeated Nebraska\, 37–14\, to win the school's fifth national cha mpionship.\n\n2001 Hurricanes produced a record 38 NFL draft picks\, and a re considered to be one of the greatest college football teams.\n\nhttps:/ /en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Miami_Hurricanes_football_team SUMMARY:Miami END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:ohio-state-fbaac5 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20030103 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20040104 DESCRIPTION:Won the 2002 BCS National Championship (Fiesta Bowl).\n\nThe 20 02 Ohio State Buckeyes football team was an American football team that re presented the Ohio State University as a member of the Big Ten Conference during the 2002 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their second year un der head coach Jim Tressel\, the Buckeyes compiled a perfect 14–0 record (8–0 in conference games)\, won the Big Ten and national championships\ , and outscored opponents by a total of 410 to 183. Against ranked opponen ts\, the Buckeyes defeated No. 10 Washington State\, No. 18 Penn State\, N o. 23 Minnesota\, and No. 12 Michigan. They concluded the season with a 31 –24 double-overtime victory over No. 1 Miami (FL) in the 2003 Fiesta Bow l\, which was also the BCS National Championship Game. It was Ohio State's first consensus national championship since 1968.\n\nThe Buckeyes gained an average of 191.3 rushing yards and 173.2 passing yards per game. On def ense\, they gave up 77.7 rushing yards and 243.1 passing yards per game. T he team's statistical leaders included junior quarterback Craig Krenzel (2 \,110 passing yards\, 59.4% completion percentage)\, freshman tailback Mau rice Clarett (1\,237 rushing yards\, 5.6 yards per carry)\, wide receiver Michael Jenkins (61 receptions for 1\,076 yards)\, and kicker Mike Nugent (120 points scored\, 45 of 46 extra points\, 25 of 28 field goals). Three Ohio State players were consensus first-team All-Americans: Nugent\; lineb acker Matt Wilhelm\; and safety Mike Doss. Seven Ohio State players receiv ed first-team honors on the 2002 All-Big Ten Conference football team: Cla rett\; Wilhelm\; Doss\; Nugent\; defensive end Darrion Scott\; cornerback Chris Gamble\; and punter Andy Groom.\n\nThe team played its home games at Ohio Stadium in Columbus\, Ohio.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Oh io_State_Buckeyes_football_team SUMMARY:Ohio State END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:lsu-829ac7 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20040104 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20050104 DESCRIPTION:Won the 2003 BCS National Championship (Sugar Bowl). The AP pol l's champion was USC.\n\nThe 2003 LSU Tigers football team represented Lou isiana State University (LSU) during the 2003 NCAA Division I-A football s eason. Led by fourth-year head coach Nick Saban\, the LSU Tigers played th eir home games at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge\, Louisiana.\n\nThe Tigers compiled an 11–1 regular season record\, going 7–1 in SEC play to fini sh tied for first in the SEC West\, with the lone loss coming against SEC East foe Florida. Due to defeating the other co-division champion\, Ole Mi ss\, LSU was selected to play in the SEC Championship Game\, defeating no. 5 Georgia 34–13. LSU was selected to play the Oklahoma Sooners in the S ugar Bowl for the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) national title. LSU won t he BCS National Championship Game\, the first national football championsh ip for LSU since 1958.\n\nThe 2003 college football regular season ended w ith three one-loss teams in BCS contention: the LSU Tigers\, Oklahoma Soon ers\, and USC Trojans. USC ended the regular season ranked No. 1 and LSU No. 2 in both the AP Poll and the Coaches' Poll. Media controversy ensued when the BCS computer-based selection system chose LSU and Oklahoma as th e participants in the BCS title game\, largely based on an assessment of t he relative difficulty of the three teams' 2003 schedules. During the bow l games\, LSU beat No. 3 Oklahoma 21–14 in the Sugar Bowl (designated as the BCS National Championship Game for the 2003–04 season)\, while USC defeated the No. 4 Michigan Wolverines 28–14 in the Rose Bowl. LSU was r anked No. 1 in the final Coaches' Poll (which was contractually obligated to rank the BCS champion No. 1) while USC remained No. 1 in the final AP P oll\, resulting in a non-consensus national title - the last time this has happened. Several experts have viewed the 2003 Tigers as having one of th e greatest defenses in college football history.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.o rg/wiki/2003_LSU_Tigers_football_team SUMMARY:LSU END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:usc-31f931 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20050104 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20060104 DESCRIPTION:Won the 2004 BCS National Championship (Orange Bowl). The title was later vacated by the NCAA.\n\nThe 2004 USC Trojans football team repr esented the University of Southern California in the 2004 NCAA Division I- A football season. The 2004 Trojans football team won the 2004 BCS Nationa l Championship by winning the 2005 Orange Bowl\, that year's BCS National Championship Game. The team also won the AP title for the second year in a row. It was the Trojans' first unanimous national championship since 197 2\, and the second time a team had gone wire-to-wire\, with the Trojans ho lding the number 1 spot in the polls all season. The team was coached by P ete Carroll in his fourth year with the Trojans\, and played its home game s in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. \n\nQuarterback Matt Leinart won t he Heisman Trophy as the most outstanding collegiate football player in th e U.S. His teammate\, running back Reggie Bush\, finished fifth in Heisman voting\, winning the following year. Both were named co-winners of the Pa c-10 Offensive Player of the Year. The team captains were Shaun Cody\, Ma tt Grootegoed and Matt Leinart.\n\nBecause of the controversy that ended t he 2003 NCAA Division I-A football season with a split national title betw een LSU and USC\, the motto for the Trojans' 2004 season became "Leave No Doubt." Ironically\, the changes made to the BCS due to the 2003 season d id not resolve issues with multiple undefeated teams\, as Auburn and Utah finished undefeated\, yet they did not get to play USC or any other team f or the title.\n\nOn June 10\, 2010\, USC was forced to vacate its two fina l wins from the 2004 season (December 2004 against UCLA and the BCS champi onship game)\, as well as all wins from the 2005 season\, following an NCA A investigation into violations by the Trojans' football and men's basketb all programs\, mainly revolving around the eligibility of Reggie Bush. Sin ce the vacated games included the Trojans' Orange Bowl win\, the Trojans w ere later stripped of the 2004 BCS title in June 2011. However\, the Assoc iated Press (AP) still recognizes USC as winners of the 2004 national cham pionship.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_USC_Trojans_football_team SUMMARY:USC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:texas-0b1854 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20060104 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20070108 DESCRIPTION:Won the 2005 BCS National Championship (Rose Bowl).\n\nThe 2005 Texas Longhorns football team represented the University of Texas at Aust in during the 2005 NCAA Division I-A football season\, winning the Big 12 Conference championship and the national championship. The team was coache d by Mack Brown\, led on offense by quarterback Vince Young\, and played i ts home games at Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium.\n\nThe team's p enultimate victory of the season\, the Big 12 Championship Game\, featured the biggest margin of victory in the history of that contest. They finish ed the season by winning the 2006 Rose Bowl against the USC Trojans for th e national championship. Numerous publications have cited this victory as standing among the greatest performances in college football history\, and ESPN awarded the 2006 ESPY Award for the "Best Game" in any sport to the Longhorns and the Trojans. The Longhorns finished as the only unbeaten tea m in NCAA Division I-A football that year\, with thirteen wins and zero lo sses. Owing to its overwhelmingly dominant margins of victory\, and its pe rfect record\, this Longhorns team is often considered among the best in c ollege football history.\n\nTexas earned its second Big 12 Conference foot ball championship to make 27 conference championships total\, including 25 in the Southwest Conference. It was their fourth national championship in football and the ninth perfect season in the history of Longhorn football .\n\nThe team set numerous school and NCAA records\, including their 652 p oints which set an NCAA record for points scored in a season. After the se ason ended\, six Longhorns from this championship team joined professional football teams through the 2006 NFL draft. Seven more Longhorns followed suit in the 2007 NFL draft and they were joined by two free agents. Anothe r nine followed through the 2008 draft and free-agency to make a total of twenty-four players who entered into the National Football League (NFL).\n \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Texas_Longhorns_football_team SUMMARY:Texas END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:florida-fc0042 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20070108 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20080107 DESCRIPTION:Won the 2006 BCS National Championship.\n\nThe 2006 Florida Gat ors football team represented the University of Florida in the sport of Am erican football during the 2006 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The G ators competed in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Coll egiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Eastern Division of the Southea stern Conference (SEC)\, and played their home games at Ben Hill Griffin S tadium on the university's Gainesville\, Florida campus. The season was th e second for head coach Urban Meyer\, who led the Gators to an SEC Champio nship\, a BCS National Championship\, and an overall win–loss record of 13–1 (.929). Their one loss coming from an upset by the Auburn Tigers.\n \nFlorida overcame the toughest schedule in the nation by opponent winning percentage to become national champions. The Gators won their seventh SEC title by defeating the Arkansas Razorbacks 38–28 in the SEC Championshi p Game on December 2\, 2006\, then defeated the Ohio State Buckeyes 41–1 4 in the BCS National Championship Game on January 8\, 2007\, beginning th e SEC's streak of seven consecutive national championships. The 2006 Flori da Gators remain the last team to win a national championship averaging un der 30 points per game with 29.8.\n\nDuring the 2006 season\, the Gators a lso celebrated two milestones in their history: the tenth anniversary of t heir first national football championship in 1996\, and 100 years of Flori da football dating to their first season in 1906.\n\nIn addition\, with th e men's basketball team winning the 2006 and 2007 NCAA men's basketball na tional championships\, the University of Florida became the first Division I school to ever win the football and men's basketball titles during the same year. Coincidentally\, the Gators again faced and defeated Ohio State in the 2007 NCAA basketball championship game\, also marking the first ti me in college sports history that identical matchups and results have occu rred in both football and basketball championships.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedi a.org/wiki/2006_Florida_Gators_football_team SUMMARY:Florida END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:lsu-1386db DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20080107 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090108 DESCRIPTION:Won the 2007 BCS National Championship.\n\nThe 2007 LSU Tigers football team represented Louisiana State University during the 2007 NCAA Division I FBS football season. It won the Southeastern Conference (SEC) c hampionship and the national championship–their third claimed national c hampionship and fourth recognized by the NCAA and the college football com munity. It was the team’s second national championship in five years and first consensus national championship since 1958.\n\nThe team's head coac h was Les Miles\, who entered his third year at the helm. They were led o n the field by senior quarterback Matt Flynn\, running back Jacob Hester\, and senior defensive tackle Glenn Dorsey\, a two-time All-American and wi nner of multiple national trophies and awards. They played their home game s at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge\, Louisiana.\n\nThe team overcame two tr iple-overtime losses and four other close games to become the first two-lo ss national champion in the BCS/CFP era and the first two-loss national ch ampion since the 1960 Minnesota Golden Gophers. On their way to the BCS na tional championship\, the Tigers won their tenth SEC championship by defea ting Tennessee in the SEC Championship Game.\n\nThe Tigers finished the se ason having earned the Southeastern Conference championship trophy\, the G rantland Rice Award\, the MacArthur Trophy\, the Associated Press Trophy a nd the AFCA National Championship Trophy.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki /2007_LSU_Tigers_football_team SUMMARY:LSU END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:florida-ef6a12 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090108 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20100107 DESCRIPTION:Won the 2008 BCS National Championship.\n\nThe 2008 Florida Gat ors football team represented the University of Florida in the sport of Am erican football during the 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The G ators competed in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Coll egiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Eastern Division of the Southea stern Conference (SEC)\, and played their home games in Ben Hill Griffin S tadium on the university's Gainesville\, Florida\, campus. They were led b y fourth-year head coach Urban Meyer.\n\nAfter clinching the SEC East\, th e Gators defeated then top-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide 31–20 in the SEC Championship Game to win their eighth conference title. They capped their season by defeating the Oklahoma Sooners in the BCS National Championship Game 24–14. The Gators finished the season ranked No. 1 in the AP Poll a nd the Coaches' Poll. Of the team's 120-player roster\, 30 members went on to have stints in the NFL. Bleacher Report has often named the 2008 Flori da Gators as one of the greatest college football teams of all time.\n\nht tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Florida_Gators_football_team SUMMARY:Florida END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:alabama-ae0ff0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20100107 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110110 DESCRIPTION:Won the 2009 BCS National Championship.\n\nThe 2009 Alabama Cri mson Tide football team represented the University of Alabama as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) during the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS f ootball season. Led by third-year head coach Nick Saban\, the Crimson Tide compiled an overall record of 14–0 with a mark of 8–0 in conference p lay\, winning the SEC's Western Division title. Alabama advanced to the SE C Championship Game\, defeating the defending national champion\, Florida\ , to win the SEC title. The Crimson Tide then beat Texas in the BCS Nation al Championship Game\, winning their first national title since 1992.\n\nA labama closed the regular season with a 12–0 record including four wins against top 25-ranked teams. The Crimson Tide met Florida for the SEC Cham pionship in a rematch of the 2008 contest. Alabama was victorious by a fin al score of 32–13. The following day\, final Bowl Championship Series (B CS) standings were unveiled. No. 1 ranked Alabama would meet No. 2 ranked Texas for the BCS National Championship. In the BCS National Championship Game\, the Crimson Tide defeated the Longhorns 37–21 to capture their fi rst national championship since 1992. Alabama won its third SEC championsh ip since the inception of the SEC Championship Game in 1992 and 22nd SEC t itle overall. The victory over Texas gave the Crimson Tide their 13th nati onal championship\, their eighth wire service title since the AP poll bega n in 1936\, and their ninth perfect season since 1925. The season included victories over the three previous programs to win a national championship : Florida\, LSU\, and Texas.\n\nThe season marked the first time an Alabam a player won the Heisman Trophy with Mark Ingram II winning the award over Stanford running back Toby Gerhart. Other award winners included Rolando McClain\, who won the Butkus Award and the Jack Lambert Award\, and defens ive coordinator Kirby Smart\, who won the Broyles Award as the nation's to p assistant coach. Six Crimson Tide players were named to various All-Amer ica Teams with Terrence Cody\, Mike Johnson\, and Javier Arenas being cons ensus selections and Ingram and McClain each being unanimous selections.\n \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Alabama_Crimson_Tide_football_team SUMMARY:Alabama END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:auburn-086df1 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110110 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120109 DESCRIPTION:Won the 2010 BCS National Championship.\n\nThe 2010 Auburn Tige rs football team represented Auburn University in the 2010 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Tigers\, led by second-year head coach Gene Chiz ik were members of the Western Division of the Southeastern Conference and played their home games at Jordan–Hare Stadium. The Tigers completed a 12–0 regular season record and defeated South Carolina in the 2010 SEC C hampionship Game.\n\nOn January 10\, 2011\, Auburn defeated Oregon in the BCS National Championship Game in Glendale\, Arizona\, 22–19\, to win th e 9th national championship in school history and first since 2004.\n\nThe Tigers were led on offense by junior quarterback Cam Newton\, who became the third Auburn player to win the Heisman Trophy\, distinguishing him as the best player in college football. Newton led the nation in touchdowns r esponsible for\, finishing with 30 passing touchdowns\, 20 rushing touchdo wns\, and one receiving touchdown for a total of 51. He also led the South eastern Conference in total yards and passing efficiency rating. Newton de clared for the NFL draft following the season\, and was drafted 1st overal l in 2011.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Auburn_Tigers_football_te am SUMMARY:Auburn END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:alabama-450ec2 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120109 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130107 DESCRIPTION:Won the 2011 BCS National Championship.\n\nThe 2011 Alabama Cri mson Tide football team represented the University of Alabama in the 2011 NCAA Division I FBS football season. It was the Crimson Tide's 117th overa ll and 78th season as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and it s 20th within the SEC Western Division. The team was led by head coach Nic k Saban\, in his fifth year\, and played their home games at Bryant–Denn y Stadium in Tuscaloosa\, Alabama. They finished the season with a record of twelve wins and one loss (12–1 overall\, 7–1 in the SEC) and as con sensus national champions.\n\nAfter the completion of the 2010 season\, th e Crimson Tide signed a highly rated recruiting class in February 2011 and completed spring practice the following April. With seventeen returning s tarters from the previous season\, Alabama entered their 2011 campaign ran ked as the number two team in the nation and as a favorite to win the West ern Division and compete for the SEC championship. However\, Alabama lost to the LSU Tigers in their regular season matchup\, and as a result did no t qualify for the 2011 SEC Championship Game. Despite not winning their co nference championship\, when the final Bowl Championship Series rankings w ere released\, Alabama had the number two ranking to qualify for the 2012 BCS National Championship Game. In the rematch against LSU\, the Crimson T ide defeated the Tigers 21–0 to capture their second BCS Championship in three years.\n\nAt the conclusion of the season\, the Alabama defense led the nation in every major statistical category\, and was the first to do so since the 1986 season. Additionally\, several players were recognized f or the individual accomplishments on the field. Barrett Jones won both the Wuerffel Trophy and the Outland Trophy\; and Trent Richardson won the Doa k Walker Award\, was a finalist for the Heisman Trophy and was named the S EC Offensive Player of the Year. Also\, seven players were named to variou s All-America Teams with Dont'a Hightower being a consensus selection and Mark Barron\, Jones and Richardson each being unanimous selections. In Apr il 2012\, eight members of the 2011 squad were selected in the NFL draft\, with an additional six signed as undrafted free agents to various teams. In 2019\, Athlon Sports ranked the 2011 Crimson Tide defense as the greate st college defense of all time.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Alab ama_Crimson_Tide_football_team SUMMARY:Alabama END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:alabama-8a7514 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130107 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140106 DESCRIPTION:Won the 2012 BCS National Championship.\n\nThe 2012 Alabama Cri mson Tide football team represented the University of Alabama in the 2012 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl S ubdivision (FBS) football season. It marked the Crimson Tide's 118th overa ll season of playing college football\, 79th as a member of the Southeaste rn Conference (SEC) and 21st within the SEC Western Division. The team was led by head coach Nick Saban\, in his sixth year\, and played its home ga mes at Bryant–Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa\, Alabama. It finished the sea son with a record of 13 wins and 1 loss (13–1 overall\, 7–1 in the SEC )\, as SEC champion and as consensus national champion after it defeated N otre Dame in the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) National Championship Game .\n\nAfter they captured the 2011 national championship\, the Crimson Tide signed a highly rated recruiting class in February 2012 and completed spr ing practice the following April. With twelve returning starters from the previous season\, Alabama entered the 2012 season as the defending nationa l champions\, ranked as the number two team in the nation and as a favorit e to win the Western Division and compete for both the SEC and national ch ampionships. The Crimson Tide opened the season with nine consecutive vict ories that included one over Michigan at a neutral site and a come-from-be hind victory on the road at Louisiana State University (LSU). In their ten th game\, Alabama was upset by Texas A&M\, and dropped to the number four position in the rankings. However\, after a series of upsets and victories in their final three games that included winning the SEC Championship ove r Georgia\, Alabama qualified for the 2013 BCS National Championship Game against Notre Dame\, where they won 42–14 and captured the 2012 national championship. Alabama were the last team to repeat as national champions until the 2021-2022 Georgia Bulldogs.\n\nAt the conclusion of the season\, the Alabama defense led the nation in total defense\, scoring defense and rushing defense and ranked seventh in passing defense. Offensively\, the Alabama offense ranked 12th in scoring offense\, 16th in rushing offense\, 31st in total offense and 75th in passing offense. Starting quarterback A . J. McCarron was ranked first nationally in pass efficiency. Additionally \, several players were recognized for their individual accomplishments on the field. Starting center Barrett Jones won both the Rimington Trophy an d the William V. Campbell Trophy\, and was named as the Academic All-Ameri ca of the Year\; defensive coordinator Kirby Smart was named the 2012 Amer ican Football Coaches Association (AFCA) FBS Assistant Coach of the Year. Also\, five players were named to various All-America Teams with Jones and C. J. Mosley being consensus selections and Dee Milliner and Chance Warma ck being unanimous selections.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Alaba ma_Crimson_Tide_football_team SUMMARY:Alabama END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:florida-state-10b1e9 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140106 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150113 DESCRIPTION:Won the 2013 BCS National Championship.\n\nThe 2013 Florida Sta te Seminoles football team\, variously Florida State or FSU\, represented Florida State University in the sport of American football during the 2013 NCAA Division I FBS college football season. Florida State competed in th e Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Asso ciation (NCAA). The Seminoles were led by fourth-year head coach Jimbo Fis her and played their home games at Bobby Bowden Field at Doak Campbell Sta dium in Tallahassee\, Florida. They were members of the Atlantic Coast Con ference\, and played in the Atlantic Division. It was the Seminoles' 22nd season as a member of the ACC and its ninth in the ACC Atlantic Division.\ n\nLed by eventual Heisman Trophy winner Jameis Winston\, Florida State fi nished the season with a school-record fourteen wins and completed the sch ool's third undefeated season. The Seminoles captured their seventeenth co nference title and third national championship\, earning the Grantland Ric e Award\, the MacArthur Trophy\, the Associated Press Trophy and the AFCA National Championship Trophy.\n\nIn addition to the Heisman\, Jameis Winst on won the Walter Camp Award\, the Davey O'Brien Award\, and the Manning A ward as well as being a finalist for the Maxwell Award and honored as the AP Player of the Year. Roberto Aguayo won the Lou Groza Award as the nati on's best placekicker\, Bryan Stork won the Rimington Trophy awarded to th e nation's top center. Ten players were named All-Americans\, with three e arning consensus honors. For their accomplishments\, Lamarcus Joyner was a finalist for both the Jim Thorpe Award and the Nagurski Trophy\, and Coa ch Fisher was named the AFCA Coach of the Year and was a semifinalist for Maxwell Coach of the Year.\n\nTwenty-six Seminoles from the national title team have gone on to play professional football with twenty-five players going on to play in the NFL\, including four first-round picks\, and one p layer in the CFL. Nine players have been named consensus All-Americans. Si nce the National Championship\, numerous players have gone on to win a Sup er Bowl\, including Bryan Stork\, Tre' Jackson\, Ronald Darby\, Timmy Jern igan and Cameron Erving. The team set a then FBS record for points in a se ason with 723\, previously held by the 2008 Oklahoma Sooners\, led the cou ntry in scoring defense allowing only 12.1 points per game and set an FBS record winning by an average margin of 39.5 points per game\, the highest ever in modern college football. The 2013 Florida State Seminoles are cons idered by many experts to be one of the greatest college football teams of all time\, and with many arguing they were the most dominant BCS era cham pion. The team was the final BCS National Champion before the implementati on of the College Football Playoffs in 2014.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/w iki/2013_Florida_State_Seminoles_football_team SUMMARY:Florida State END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:ohio-state-7faba5 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150113 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160112 DESCRIPTION:Won the 2014 College Football Playoff: Ohio State 42\, Oregon 2 0.\n\nThe 2014 Ohio State Buckeyes football team represented Ohio State Un iversity in the 2014 NCAA Division I FBS football season. It was the Bucke yes' 125th overall\, the 102nd as a member of the Big Ten Conference\, and first season as a member of the newly reorganized Eastern Division. The t eam was led by Urban Meyer\, in his third year as head coach\, and played their home games at Ohio Stadium in Columbus\, Ohio. They finished the sea son with 14 wins and 1 loss (14–1 overall\, 8–0 in the Big Ten)\, as B ig Ten champions and as national champions after they defeated Oregon in t he inaugural College Football Playoff National Championship Game. Winning 14 games in a season tied the school record set by the Buckeyes' previous national champion team\, a record that would be matched by the program's n ext national champion team.\n\nAfter a 12–2 season the previous year\, O hio State signed a highly ranked recruiting class and entered the season r anked No. 5 in the AP poll and No. 6 in the coaches' preseason poll. In th e second game of the season\, Ohio State was upset by Virginia Tech\, 35 –21. Following the loss\, Ohio State won five consecutive games\, includ ing four against Big Ten opponents. In the ninth game of the season\, Ohio State defeated Michigan State in a rematch of the previous year's Big Ten Championship Game. After the 49–37 win over the Spartans\, the Buckeyes moved into the top ten in all major polls. After a 42–28 win over rival Michigan\, Ohio State completed their third consecutive undefeated Big Te n regular season\, and earned their second consecutive berth in the Big Te n Championship Game\, where they defeated Wisconsin 59–0. In the first s eason of the College Football Playoff\, Ohio State was selected as the No. 4 team\, where they defeated Alabama in the Sugar Bowl 42–35. The win a dvanced the Buckeyes to the 2015 College Football Playoff National Champio nship Game\, where they defeated Oregon 42–20 to capture the 2014 nation al championship. They were voted consensus national champions as the Assoc iated Press (AP) and the Coaches' Poll (AFCA) both named them the No. 1 te am in their final polls.\n\nReigning two-time Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year Braxton Miller was set to be Ohio State's starting quarterback fo r the year\, but he sustained a season-ending shoulder injury in practice just a few weeks before the start of the season. Redshirt freshman J. T. B arrett started at quarterback for the majority of the season\, until he\, too\, suffered a season-ending injury via a broken ankle during the regula r season finale against Michigan. Redshirt sophomore Cardale Jones\, who w as the third-string quarterback at the start of the summer\, led the Bucke yes to wins in the Big Ten Championship Game\, Sugar Bowl\, and CFP Nation al Championship in his first three career starts at quarterback.\n\nDefens ive end Joey Bosa led the Big Ten in sacks\, tackles for loss\, and forced fumbles\, and was named Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year. Bosa was na med a unanimous first-team All-American. Bosa\, Barrett\, offensive linema n Pat Elflein\, and defensive back Doran Grant earned first-team all-confe rence honors.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Ohio_State_Buckeyes_fo otball_team SUMMARY:Ohio State END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:alabama-507d3c DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160112 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170110 DESCRIPTION:Won the 2015 College Football Playoff: Alabama 45\, Clemson 40. \n\nThe 2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team represented the University of Alabama in the 2015 NCAA Division I FBS football season. It marked the Crimson Tide's 121st overall season\, 82nd as a member of the Southeaster n Conference (SEC) and its 24th within the SEC Western Division. The team played its home games at Bryant–Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa\, Alabama. T hey were led by ninth-year head coach Nick Saban. They finished the season with a record of 14 wins and 1 loss (14–1 overall\, 7–1 in the SEC)\, as SEC champions and as consensus national champions after they defeated Clemson in the College Football Playoff (CFP) National Championship Game. Alabama also secured its 10th Associated Press (AP) national title. Runni ng back Derrick Henry became Alabama's second Heisman Trophy recipient. He led the nation in both rushing yards (2\,219) and rushing touchdowns (28) .\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Alabama_Crimson_Tide_football_team SUMMARY:Alabama END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:clemson-15ffb6 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170110 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180109 DESCRIPTION:Won the 2016 College Football Playoff: Clemson 35\, Alabama 31. \n\nThe 2016 Clemson Tigers football team represented Clemson University i n the 2016 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Tigers were led by hea d coach Dabo Swinney in his eighth full year and ninth overall since takin g over midway through the 2008 season. They played their home games at Mem orial Stadium\, also known as "Death Valley"\, and competed in the Atlanti c Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference. The Tigers entered the 2016 season as the defending national runners-up after a 14–1 season that end ed with a loss to Alabama in the 2016 College Football Playoff National Ch ampionship.\n\nAfter finishing the regular season with a record of 11–1\ , and then beating Coastal Division champion Virginia Tech in the 2016 ACC Championship game\, the second-ranked Tigers advanced to the 2016 College Football Playoff semifinal played at the Fiesta Bowl\, where they defeate d third-ranked Ohio State 31–0. Clemson and Alabama met in the 2017 CFP National Championship in college football's first ever national champions hip game rematch. Clemson won by a score of 35 to 31\, winning their first consensus national championship since 1981. Clemson subsequently finishe d first of the rankings in both the AP Poll and the Coaches Poll.\n\nThe C lemson offense was led by junior quarterback Deshaun Watson\, who led the ACC with 4\,593 passing yards and 41 passing touchdowns. Watson finished s econd in voting for the Heisman Trophy behind Louisville's Lamar Jackson a nd was awarded the Davey O'Brien Award\, Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award\, and Manning Award. Wide receiver Mike Williams\, tight end Jordan Leggett\ , and offensive linemen Mitch Hyatt\, Tyrone Crowder\, and Jay Guillermo w ere named first-team All-ACC on offense. Defensive first-team all-conferen ce selections were defensive tackle Carlos Watkins\, linebacker Ben Boulwa re\, and defensive backs Cordrea Tankersley and Jadar Johnson.\n\nhttps:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Clemson_Tigers_football_team SUMMARY:Clemson END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:alabama-7a00a8 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180109 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190108 DESCRIPTION:Won the 2017 College Football Playoff: Alabama 26\, Georgia 23. \n\nThe 2017 Alabama Crimson Tide football team represented the University of Alabama during the 2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season. This seas on marked the Crimson Tide's 123rd overall season\, its 84th as a member o f the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and its 26th within the SEC Western Di vision. They played their home games at Bryant–Denny Stadium in Tuscaloo sa\, Alabama and were led by eleventh-year head coach Nick Saban.\n\nAlaba ma ended the season as national champions by winning their second College Football Playoff national championship. This was their 17th claimed nation al title in school history and fifth under head coach Nick Saban.\n\nAlaba ma\, coming off a national title game loss to Clemson in 2016\, began the year ranked first in the AP Poll. The team opened the year with a victory over then-No. 3 Florida State in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game\, which was the highest ranked season-opening match-up in the history of the AP Poll. Alabama won their first 11 games convincingly\, but fell on the road to ri val Auburn in the regular season finale\, and since the two teams were tie d atop the SEC West Division at 7–1\, Auburn advanced to the 2017 SEC Ch ampionship Game on the head-to-head tiebreaker. Alabama fell to number six in the rankings leading up to conference championship weekend. In the fin al College Football Playoff rankings of the year\, 11–1 Alabama rose to number four after sitting idle\, ahead of 12–1 Wisconsin\, 11–2 Big Te n Conference champion Ohio State and 12–0 American Athletic Conference c hampion UCF. This earned Alabama a place in the national semi-final to be played at the Sugar Bowl against first-seeded Clemson\, the third consecut ive playoff meeting between the two schools. Alabama won by a score of 24 –6 and advanced to the 2018 College Football Playoff National Championsh ip against SEC champion Georgia. The Crimson Tide pulled off an overtime v ictory to win the game 26–23 and the national title.\n\nAlabama's offens e was led by sophomore quarterback Jalen Hurts\, who finished with 2\,081 passing yards\, 17 passing touchdowns and just one interception. He added 855 rushing yards and 8 rushing touchdowns on the ground. Freshman quarter back Tua Tagovailoa served as the backup and was named game MVP of the nat ional championship game after Hurts was benched at halftime. Running back Damien Harris led the rushing attack with exactly 1\,000 rushing yards and 11 touchdowns on the year. Wide receiver Calvin Ridley and offensive tack le Jonah Williams were named first-team All-SEC. The Crimson Tide defense\ , which led the country in scoring and yards allowed\, was led by consensu s first-team All-American and Chuck Bednarik Award-winning safety Minkah F itzpatrick. He was joined on the All-SEC team by defensive tackles Daron P ayne and Raekwon Davis\, linebacker Rashaan Evans\, and safety Ronnie Harr ison.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Alabama_Crimson_Tide_football_ team SUMMARY:Alabama END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:clemson-bf218d DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190108 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200114 DESCRIPTION:Won the 2018 College Football Playoff: Clemson 44\, Alabama 16. \n\nThe 2018 Clemson Tigers football team represented Clemson University during the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Tigers played the ir home games at Memorial Stadium\, also known as "Death Valley\," and com peted in the Atlantic Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference. They were led by head coach Dabo Swinney in his tenth full year and 11th overall si nce taking over midway through 2008 season.\n\nClemson\, coming off a Coll ege Football Playoff semifinal loss to Alabama in 2017\, began the year ra nked second in the preseason AP Poll and Coaches Poll. The Tigers won all 12 of their regular season games\, securing their first undefeated regular season since 2015. Clemson won their fourth consecutive ACC title by defe ating Pittsburgh in the 2018 ACC Championship Game. In the final College F ootball Playoff rankings of the 2018 season\, Clemson was ranked second\, earning them their fourth consecutive playoff bid and a spot in the 2018 C otton Bowl Classic against third-ranked Notre Dame. The Tigers won that ga me 30–3\, advancing them to the 2019 College Football Playoff National C hampionship against Alabama\, their fourth consecutive year meeting the Cr imson Tide in the playoff and third time in four years doing so in the nat ional title game. Clemson won that game in dominant fashion\, 44–16\, to win the Tigers' third national championship in school history and second in three years. They were the first undefeated College Football Playoff ch ampion and the first major college football program to finish with a recor d of 15–0 since Penn in 1897. The team is considered by some analysts to be one of the greatest in college football history.\n\nThe Tigers were le d offensively by true freshman quarterback Trevor Lawrence\, who won a hig hly publicized battle for the starting role over 2017 starter Kelly Bryant . Sophomore running back Travis Etienne contributed significantly\, rushin g for over 1\,600 yards and an FBS-leading 24 rushing touchdowns. He was n amed ACC Player of the Year following the regular season. On defense\, the team was anchored by a veteran defensive line consisting of Clelin Ferrel l\, Christian Wilkins\, Dexter Lawrence\, and Austin Bryant\, all of whom were subsequently drafted in the 2019 NFL draft.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.o rg/wiki/2018_Clemson_Tigers_football_team SUMMARY:Clemson END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:lsu-28b543 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200114 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210112 DESCRIPTION:Won the 2019 College Football Playoff: LSU 42\, Clemson 25.\n\n The 2019 LSU Tigers football team represented Louisiana State University i n the 2019 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Tigers played their ho me games at Tiger Stadium (nicknamed Death Valley) in Baton Rouge\, Louisi ana\, and competed in the West Division of the Southeastern Conference (SE C) where they were led by their third-year head coach Ed Orgeron. Many exp erts and fans have claimed that the 2019 LSU Tigers were the greatest coll ege football team of the modern era. The team recorded seven wins over top -10 opponents (with an average margin of victory of 20 points against four top-5 teams) and benefited from the later NFL success of Joe Burrow\, Jus tin Jefferson\, and Ja'Marr Chase (Burrow finished 1st in NFL passing yard s in 2024\, and Chase finished 1st in WR reception yards while Jefferson f inished 2nd in WR reception yards).\n\nLSU began the year ranked sixth in the preseason AP Poll\, and were projected to finish second in the SEC Wes t behind Alabama. The Tigers secured an undefeated regular season that inc luded wins over top-ten-ranked teams Texas\, Florida\, Auburn\, and Alabam a. In the SEC Championship Game\, LSU defeated Georgia to win their first conference title since 2011. LSU was ranked No. 1 in the final College Foo tball Playoff rankings of the season\, earning them a spot in the national semi-final game to be played at the Peach Bowl. They dominated fourth-ran ked Oklahoma in that game\, 63–28\, to advance to the CFP Championship G ame. There\, they defeated the defending national champions Clemson\, 42 –25\, to secure LSU's fourth national title in school history\, the seco nd undefeated champion in the CFP era\, and the second 15–0 season among any team in the modern era.\n\nLSU's record-setting offense was led by se nior quarterback Joe Burrow\, who won the Heisman Trophy by the largest ma rgin in the history of the award\, and broke several NCAA FBS records\, in cluding most touchdown passes (60)\, and highest quarterback rating (202.0 ). He was accompanied on offense by 1\,400-yard running back Clyde Edwards -Helaire\, and two 1\,500-yard receivers and future multi-time NFL Pro Bow lers\, Ja'Marr Chase and Justin Jefferson\, with the former winning the Bi letnikoff Award as the best wide receiver in the country. The Tigers' offe nsive line won the Joe Moore Award as the nation's best offensive line uni t. LSU's defense was anchored by two All-American defensive backs in Jim T horpe Award winner Grant Delpit and true freshman Derek Stingley Jr. Lineb acker Jacob Phillips led the SEC in tackles. Head coach Ed Orgeron was awa rded several national Coach of the Year honors.\n\nOn the season\, the Tig ers outscored their opponents by a combined total of 726 to 328. Owing to their dominant performance against a historically difficult schedule\, sev eral pundits have called the team one of the greatest in college football history.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_LSU_Tigers_football_team SUMMARY:LSU END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:alabama-77fff7 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210112 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220111 DESCRIPTION:Won the 2020 College Football Playoff: Alabama 52\, Ohio State 24.\n\nThe 2020 Alabama Crimson Tide football team represented the Univers ity of Alabama in the 2020 NCAA Division I FBS football season. This was t he Crimson Tide's 126th overall season\, 87th as a member of the Southeast ern Conference (SEC)\, and 29th within the SEC Western Division. They play ed their home games at Bryant–Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa\, Alabama\, an d were led by 14th-year head coach Nick Saban (with second-year offensive coordinator Steve Sarkisian serving as acting coach for Game 8\, against A uburn\, due to COVID-19 protocols).\n\nThey finished the season undefeated with a record of 13–0 (10–0 in the SEC) and as national champions. Lo oking to build on the successes of the 2019 campaign\, Alabama entered the 2020 season as the favorite to win the Western Division and meet the Flor ida Gators in the 2020 SEC Championship Game. Alabama closed the regular s eason with a 11–0 record including five wins against Top 25-ranked teams —and met the Gators for the SEC Championship in a rematch of the 2016 co ntest. Alabama was victorious by a final score of 52–46 to capture their 9th SEC championship title. The following day\, final College Football Pl ayoff (CFP) standings were unveiled. No. 1 ranked Alabama would meet No. 4 ranked Notre Dame for the Rose Bowl game in a rematch of the 2013 contest \, defeated the Fighting Irish 31–14 to meet No. 3 ranked Ohio State Buc keyes for the College Football Playoff National Championship Game in a rem atch of their 2015 contest. In the College Football Playoff National Champ ionship\, the Crimson Tide defeated the Buckeyes\, 52–24\, to capture th eir third CFP National Championship title in seven years. The victory over Ohio State gave Alabama their 18th national championship in football (the ir 13th wire service title since the AP Poll began in 1936) and their tent h perfect season since 1925.\n\nThe season marked the first time a wide re ceiver at Alabama won the Heisman Trophy\, as DeVonta Smith won the award over several finalists including Clemson Tigers quarterback Trevor Lawrenc e. In addition to the Heisman\, Smith won numerous other awards\, includin g the Maxwell Award and the Biletnikoff Award.\n\nOther award winners incl uded quarterback Mac Jones (Davey O’Brien Award and Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award)\, running back Najee Harris (Doak Walker Award)\, Alex Leather wood (Outland Trophy)\, Landon Dickerson (Rimington Trophy)\, the offensiv e line (Joe Moore Award)\, and offensive coordinator Steve Sarkisian (Broy les Award). Six players were named to various All-America Teams with Patri ck Surtain II\, DeVonta Smith\, Alex Leatherwood\, Landon Dickerson\, and Najee Harris as unanimous selections and Mac Jones as a consensus selectio n.\n\nThe team finished the 2020 season with a final ranking of No. 1 in b oth the AP and Coaches' Polls.\n\nBecause of their dominance of their all SEC schedule with multiple ranked opponents\, and the fact that they finis hed with three Heisman Trophy candidates\, several pundits have called the team the greatest in college football history with ESPN citing them as th e greatest team of the playoff era.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_ Alabama_Crimson_Tide_football_team SUMMARY:Alabama END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:georgia-6e467a DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220111 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230110 DESCRIPTION:Won the 2021 College Football Playoff: Georgia 33\, Alabama 18. \n\nThe 2021 Georgia Bulldogs football team represented the University of Georgia in the 2021 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Bulldogs play ed their home games at Sanford Stadium in Athens\, Georgia\, and competed in the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). They were le d by sixth-year head coach Kirby Smart. They finished the season with 14 w ins and 1 loss (14–1 overall\, 8–0 in the SEC). Georgia won the Nation al Championship and was the consensus No. 1 team at the conclusion of the season. The 14 games won by the Bulldogs also set the record for the most wins in a single season in school history until it was broken the followi ng season\, where Georgia finished with a 15–0 record.\n\nThis season is one of two back-to-back Georgia seasons that won a national championship. In the 2021 season\, Georgia won 33–18 against Alabama\, and in the 202 2 season\, Georgia won 65–7 against TCU.\n\nThe Bulldogs made it to the College Football Playoff for the first time since 2017. After defeating Mi chigan in the semifinals\, they defeated Alabama to win their first nation al championship since 1980. This was the first time a No. 3 team has won t he CFP National Championship. It also marked the first time in the history of college football\, since the Associated Press poll began in 1936\, tha t a college football team had won an AP National Championship after losing their respective conference championship game in the same season. The Bul ldogs are also the last team to win the national championship without winn ing their respective conference championship game until the 2024 Ohio Stat e Buckeyes.\n\nSome experts have viewed the 2021 Bulldogs as having one of the greatest defenses in college football history.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedi a.org/wiki/2021_Georgia_Bulldogs_football_team SUMMARY:Georgia END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:georgia-647882 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230110 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240109 DESCRIPTION:Won the 2022 College Football Playoff: Georgia 65\, TCU 7.\n\nT he 2022 Georgia Bulldogs football team represented the University of Georg ia in the 2022 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Bulldogs played th eir home games at Sanford Stadium in Athens\, Georgia\, and competed in th e Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). They were led by seventh-year head coach Kirby Smart. They entered the season as the defend ing consensus national champions.\n\nThis season is one of two back-to-bac k Georgia seasons that won a national championship. In the 2021 season\, G eorgia won 33–18 against Alabama\, and in the 2022 season\, Georgia won 65–7 against TCU.\n\nThe Bulldogs finished the regular season 12–0\, 8 –0 in SEC play to finish first in the conference's Eastern Division. In the SEC Championship Game\, the Bulldogs defeated the LSU Tigers 50–30 t o win their first SEC title since 2017. They advanced to the College Footb all Playoff for the second straight year and were selected to play against Ohio State in the Peach Bowl. Georgia mounted the largest 4th-quarter com eback in CFP history to defeat Ohio State by a score of 42–41\, after Oh io State missed a potential game-winning 50-yard field goal in the final s econds of the game. As the season's last major team with an undefeated rec ord\, the Bulldogs faced off against Texas Christian University (TCU) at S oFi Stadium in Inglewood\, California for the 2023 CFP National Championsh ip on January 9\, 2023. They dominated TCU 65–7 to become the first team since the 2012 Alabama Crimson Tide to repeat as national champions\, alo ng with becoming just the 3rd team to complete a 15–0 season in the mode rn era\, after LSU in 2019 and Clemson in 2018. They would be subsequently joined by Michigan the following year. Their 58-point margin of victory o ver TCU was the largest of any bowl game result\, until next season when G eorgia defeated Florida State with a 60-point margin\, 63–3\, in the 202 3 Orange Bowl.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Georgia_Bulldogs_foot ball_team SUMMARY:Georgia END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:michigan-f00798 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240109 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250121 DESCRIPTION:Won the 2023 College Football Playoff: Michigan 34\, Washington 13.\n\nThe 2023 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the Univers ity of Michigan in the East Division of the Big Ten Conference during the 2023 NCAA Division I FBS football season. In their ninth and final year u nder head coach Jim Harbaugh\, the Wolverines compiled a perfect 15–0 re cord\, outscored opponents by a total of 538 to 156\, and won their third consecutive Big Ten championship with a 26–0 victory over Iowa in the Bi g Ten Championship Game. They defeated No. 4 Alabama\, 27–20 in overtime \, in the 2024 Rose Bowl. The Wolverines then defeated No. 2 Washington\, 34–13\, in the 2024 College Football Playoff National Championship to cl aim their first College Football Playoff (CFP) title and 12th national cha mpionship in program history\, the first since 1997\, and the first consen sus national championship since 1948. With a win against Maryland on Novem ber 18\, Michigan became the first program in college football history to reach 1\,000 wins.\n\nMichigan was the first national champion to have a l ead at halftime in every game it played since the 2001 Miami Hurricanes. T he Wolverines are the first team in Big Ten football history to complete a 15–0 season and the fourth NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (F BS) team to do so following Clemson in 2018\, LSU in 2019\, and Georgia in 2022. Michigan finished ranked No. 1 in the AP for the first time since 1 997\, and finished ranked No. 1 in the Coaches Poll for the first time in program history.\n\nMichigan's statistical leaders included starting quart erback J. J. McCarthy with 2\,991 passing yards and a 72.3% completion per centage and running back Blake Corum with 1\,245 rushing yards and an FBS- leading and single-season school-record 27 rushing touchdowns. Guard Zak Z inter was selected as a unanimous All-American\, with Corum and cornerback s Mike Sainristil and Will Johnson receiving first-team All-American honor s.\n\nMcCarthy was awarded the Big Ten Quarterback of the Year and Corum r eceived the Big Ten Running Back of the Year for a second straight season. Both were also selected to the 2023 All-Big Ten Conference football team receiving first-team honors. In addition was Zinter\, Sainristil\, Johnson \, center Drake Nugent\, offensive tackle LaDarius Henderson\, tight end C olston Loveland and defensive lineman Mason Graham. Michigan's defense hel d opponents to 10.4 points per game (PPG)\, the fewest by a Big Ten team s ince Michigan's 1997 national championship team (9.5 PPG) and fewest overa ll since the 2011 Alabama Crimson Tide (8.8 PPG).\n\nHarbaugh was suspende d by the university from game-day coaching for the first three games of th e season due to alleged recruiting violations during the COVID-19 pandemic . He was also suspended by the Big Ten for the final three games of the re gular season as punishment of the program for the allegations of sign-stea ling. Offensive coordinator Sherrone Moore led the team to four victories\ , including wins over No. 10 Penn State and No. 2 Ohio State\, as acting h ead coach during Harbaugh's absence.\n\nMichigan drew an average home atte ndance of 109\,971 in 2023\, the highest in college football. To date\, 25 players from the 2023 roster have been selected in subsequent NFL drafts\ , including a school-record 13 selections in 2024\, the most from a single university that year.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Michigan_Wolv erines_football_team SUMMARY:Michigan END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:ohio-state-2dbb55 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250121 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260120 DESCRIPTION:Won the 2024 College Football Playoff: Ohio State 34\, Notre Da me 23.\n\nThe 2024 Ohio State Buckeyes football team represented the Ohio State University as a member of the Big Ten Conference during the 2024 NCA A Division I FBS football season. They were led by sixth-year head coach R yan Day and played their home games at Ohio Stadium in Columbus\, Ohio. It was the Buckeyes' 135th season overall and 112th as a member of the Big T en.\n\nAs the favorites to win the Big Ten\, Ohio State started the season 5–0 before falling 32–31 to No. 3 Oregon on the road at Autzen Stadiu m. Subsequent to the loss\, the team won its next five\, including one on the road against No. 3 Penn State and one at home against No. 5 Indiana. H owever\, an upset home loss to unranked Michigan\, a fourth consecutive lo ss in the rivalry\, knocked them out of the Big Ten Championship Game. Ohi o State still qualified for the 2024–25 College Football Playoff and was selected as the No. 8 seed. They defeated No. 9 seed Tennessee in the fir st round\, 42–17\, and avenged their regular season loss against No. 1 s eed Oregon\, defeating them 41–21 in the Rose Bowl. They subsequently de feated No. 5 seed Texas 28–14 in the Cotton Bowl Classic to advance to t he CFP National Championship\, where they defeated No. 7 seed Notre Dame 3 4–23\, claiming their first national championship since the 2014 season. The Buckeyes were the first 12-team College Football Playoff champion (wi nning four playoff games)\, the first team since the 2007 LSU Tigers to wi n a national championship with two losses on the season\, the first team t o win the national championship without winning their respective conferenc e championship game since the 2021 Georgia Bulldogs and the lowest-seeded team in college football history to win a championship. The Buckeyes also set an NCAA record for most wins against top-5 teams in a single season\, with five. \n\nA record-breaking attendance of 936\,550 was recorded at ho me games in the 2024 season\, including the December playoff victory over Tennessee.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Ohio_State_Buckeyes_footb all_team SUMMARY:Ohio State END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003826Z UID:indiana DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260120 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261018 DESCRIPTION:Won the 2025 College Football Playoff: Indiana 27\, Miami 21.\n \nThe 2025 Indiana Hoosiers football team represented Indiana University B loomington (Indiana or IU) during the 2025 NCAA Division I FBS football se ason. The Hoosiers were led by second-year head coach Curt Cignetti. They played home games at Memorial Stadium located in Bloomington\, Indiana\, a s members of the Big Ten Conference. \n\nThe 2025 season was the most succ essful season in Indiana's football history. The season included numerous firsts for the program: the Hoosiers defeated a top-five ranked opponent o n the road for the first time (week 7 at No. 3 Oregon)\; had their highest AP poll\, Coaches Poll\, and College Football Playoff rankings in program history (all at No. 1)\; had a road victory at Penn State in week 11\, ma rking their first-ever win in Beaver Stadium\; finished the regular season with a perfect 12–0 record for the first time (exceeding their program record of 11 wins from the previous year)\; and made their first Big Ten C hampionship Game in program history. In that game\, they defeated then-No. 1 Ohio State for the first time since 1988\, won the Big Ten title for th e first time since 1967\, and won the conference outright for the first ti me since 1945. Quarterback Fernando Mendoza also became the first Hoosier to win the Heisman Trophy. This Indiana team was the first one since then to finish the regular season undefeated and the only one to do so without tying a game after ties were abolished following the 1995 regular season w ith the introduction of overtime. Their appearance in the Big Ten Champion ship against Ohio State reached a record-breaking 18.3 million viewers\, m aking it the most-watched conference championship in college football hist ory.\n\nAs the No. 1 seed in the playoff\, they received a first-round bye and played in the Rose Bowl\, Indiana's second Rose Bowl appearance (the other being in 1967) and the Hoosiers' third appearance in a major bowl or equivalent. They defeated No. 9 Alabama 38–3 for their first-ever Rose Bowl victory\, and became the first top-4 seed to win in the expanded 12-t eam playoff coming off a bye. This was also the first bowl victory for Ind iana since the 1991 Copper Bowl. With the win\, they advanced to the natio nal semifinal at the Peach Bowl against the Oregon Ducks. In a rematch of a regular-season game on October 11\, they won 56–22\, with Fernando Men doza throwing 5 touchdown passes\, marking his second consecutive game wit h more touchdown passes than incompletions and his fifth of the season\, a feat not achieved since the turn of the century. \n\nWith the win\, the t eam advanced to the College Football Playoff National Championship\, their first ever appearance in a national championship game. They defeated the Miami Hurricanes 27–21 at Hard Rock Stadium on January 19\, 2026 to win their first national championship in program history. With the feat\, they became the first FBS team to compile a perfect 16-win season since the 18 94 Yale Bulldogs\, the first Big Ten team other than Michigan or Ohio Stat e to win a consensus national championship since Minnesota in 1960\, and t he first new team to win a national championship since Florida in 1996. Th is team also became the first Hoosiers' athletic program to win a national championship and complete an undefeated season since the 1975–76 men's basketball team. The 2025 Indiana Hoosiers are regarded as one of the grea test turnarounds in sports history\, as they were just two seasons removed from a 3–9 record and prior to the season had the most all-time losses among FBS college football programs\, and Cignetti compiling an astonishin g 27–2 record in his first two seasons with Indiana.\n\nhttps://en.wikip edia.org/wiki/2025_Indiana_Hoosiers_football_team SUMMARY:Indiana END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR