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They are going to suck so bad this year. Isn’t it auburn that has a coach calling the play on 1st down, another on 2nd and another on 3rd? Pretty sure I heard or read that.

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1 hour ago, markstanco said:

They are going to suck so bad this year. Isn’t it auburn that has a coach calling the play on 1st down, another on 2nd and another on 3rd? Pretty sure I heard or read that.

 

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14 minutes ago, texifornia said:

 

AL aggy will get their asses handed to them if they play 3 QB's against Baylor

They should've scheduled Troy or Jacksonville State

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2 hours ago, UTEX_ME said:

https://www.on3.com/teams/auburn-tigers/news/auburn-football-now-claims-nine-national-championships-15-conference-titles/

lol 1983.. Texas (finished 11-1) went to Auburn (also finished 11-1)  and beat them by double digits. 

I was at that game. hot as blazes. Had 50 yard line tickets - on like row 3. Remember yelling at Texas bench to sit down so we could see the action. However 1983 is legit (putting on my hardhat after posting). Texas beat us on week 2. Rest of the year we beat something like 7 top ten teams. On New Years Day (actually Jan 2) number 1 and 2 lost. We were 3 and should have easily moved up except for NBC spending the entire month proclaiming the Orange Bowl was for MNC. Never mind that Nebraska and Miami didn't anyone that year.  I have always wondered what would have happened if Texas had won. There is a non zero chance that those same people who jumped Miami up would have leapfrogged them over Texas.  Rant over.

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2 minutes ago, troph said:

so if texas did the same thing, what's our title total? for shit and giggles grins and shit and stuff...?

 

9

Claimed - 63, 69, 70, 05
Unclaimed - 14, 41, 68, 77, 81

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Posted
1 minute ago, Js1 said:

9

Claimed - 63, 69, 70, 05
Unclaimed - 14, 41, 68, 77, 81

Yep here’s my ChatGPT friend saying the same thing …

You’re absolutely right—schools like Auburn and Texas A&M have recently expanded their official national title claims by including retroactive selections recognized by the NCAA in its record books. Texas hasn’t expanded yet, but there are indeed several seasons where the NCAA acknowledges a Longhorn title that UT simply hasn’t claimed. Let’s break down what Texas could add—and why.

 

 

 

 

NCAA-Recognized But

Unclaimed

Texas Championships

 

 

According to the official NCAA “FBS Records” and corroborated by multiple sources, Texas was selected as national champion in nine seasons by NCAA-designated major selectors, but only claims four:

 

Claimed (4): 1963, 1969, 1970, 2005

Unclaimed (5): 1914, 1941, 1968, 1977, and 1981

 

 

Here’s a quick look at those unclaimed years:

 

1914

Texas finished 8–0 and was retroactively named national champion by the Billingsley Report (Margin of Victory version)  .

 

1941

With an 8–1–1 record, Texas received national champion recognition by the Berryman QPRS and Williamson System  .

 

1968

The Longhorns (9–1–1) were selected by the Devold System, Matthews Grid Ratings, and Sagarin Ratings  .

 

1977

Texas (11–1) was recognized by Berryman, FACT, and Sagarin (ELO‑Chess)  .

 

1981

The team (10–1–1) was named national champion by the National Championship Foundation  .

 

 

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And then this …

Good question. Short answer: Texas could stretch beyond 9 claimed titles, but only if they follow the same aggressive logic Auburn used—counting every NCAA-listed selector, even the very obscure or inconsistent ones.

 

 

 

 

Baseline: 9 Titles

 

 

Texas currently claims 4 (1963, 1969, 1970, 2005).

The NCAA record book credits Texas with 5 additional national championships (1914, 1941, 1968, 1977, 1981).

That’s the 9 “legitimate” max if Texas just aligns with all NCAA-recognized major selectors (the same standard A&M used).

 

 

 

 

 

Could They Go Beyond 9?

 

 

Yes, if they:

 

Adopt all “minor selectors” that named Texas champion (the NCAA records section lists many fringe systems: Houlgate, Dunkel, Poling, Boand, Litkenhous, etc.).

Retro-claim shared titles in seasons where Texas finished #2 or was a top-three team and at least one obscure selector gave them the nod.
For example:

1930s & 1950s: Some systems threw out odd picks that weren’t AP/UPI leaders.

Late 1970s–1980s: Texas sometimes finished near the top; a fringe rating system occasionally crowned them.

 

 

 

 

By doing this, Texas could probably push their “total claimed” number into the low double digits (11–13 range)—but those would be much weaker claims than the 9 that are already documented by major NCAA selectors.

 

 

 

 

Why They Haven’t

 

 

Texas has historically taken a conservative stance—only claiming consensus or near-consensus titles.

Schools like Auburn and UCF have been more aggressive, “claiming everything the NCAA book lists,” even when selectors are obscure.

Texas has the luxury of history: 4 consensus titles plus the 5 major-selector ones already make them a blue-blood without needing to stretch.

 

 

… without needing to stretch lol. 

 

 

 

Posted
7 minutes ago, troph said:

so if texas did the same thing, what's our title total? for shit and giggles grins and shit and stuff...?

 

 

4 minutes ago, Js1 said:

9

Claimed - 63, 69, 70, 05
Unclaimed - 14, 41, 68, 77, 81

 

2 hours ago, UTEX_ME said:

https://www.on3.com/teams/auburn-tigers/news/auburn-football-now-claims-nine-national-championships-15-conference-titles/

lol 1983.. Texas (finished 11-1) went to Auburn (also finished 11-1)  and beat them by double digits. 

Just found our 10th - 1983

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Posted
1 minute ago, troph said:

Why They Haven’t

 

Because we aren't bush league aggys who need to put up fake titles and fake conference championships on our wall or in our trophy case.

We have actual trophies. 

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20 minutes ago, AUinHsv said:

I was at that game. hot as blazes. Had 50 yard line tickets - on like row 3. Remember yelling at Texas bench to sit down so we could see the action. However 1983 is legit (putting on my hardhat after posting). Texas beat us on week 2. Rest of the year we beat something like 7 top ten teams. On New Years Day (actually Jan 2) number 1 and 2 lost. We were 3 and should have easily moved up except for NBC spending the entire month proclaiming the Orange Bowl was for MNC. Never mind that Nebraska and Miami didn't anyone that year.  I have always wondered what would have happened if Texas had won. There is a non zero chance that those same people who jumped Miami up would have leapfrogged them over Texas.  Rant over.

I was there also, row 2 of the upper deck, the infamous Jerry Gray chase down.  I was at the uga game too. that one is frozen in time (IYKKYK). most painful texas game of my lifetime.

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1 hour ago, troph said:

I was there also, row 2 of the upper deck, the infamous Jerry Gray chase down.  I was at the uga game too. that one is frozen in time (IYKKYK). most painful texas game of my lifetime.

Unfortunately you are off by a year on the chase. This game was in 1983 at Auburn. The chase was 84 in Austin. Sorry to be "that expert guy" but 1983 and Auburn still makes me ragey. Claiming it 40 years later is not what I would have chosen but, based on the current landscape - I will take it. I feel sorry for some of the 83 team that have passed on and never got this - Kevin Greene comes to mind

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43 minutes ago, AUinHsv said:

Unfortunately you are off by a year on the chase. This game was in 1983 at Auburn. The chase was 84 in Austin. Sorry to be "that expert guy" but 1983 and Auburn still makes me ragey. Claiming it 40 years later is not what I would have chosen but, based on the current landscape - I will take it. I feel sorry for some of the 83 team that have passed on and never got this - Kevin Greene comes to mind

now that you say that I vaguely remember watching on the TV the year before...

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2 hours ago, AUinHsv said:

Unfortunately you are off by a year on the chase. This game was in 1983 at Auburn. The chase was 84 in Austin. Sorry to be "that expert guy" but 1983 and Auburn still makes me ragey. Claiming it 40 years later is not what I would have chosen but, based on the current landscape - I will take it. I feel sorry for some of the 83 team that have passed on and never got this - Kevin Greene comes to mind

“Well other people are doing it, so that justifies us doing it. “

No, the “current landscape” doesn’t make that nonsense any less embarrassing. But, hey, Auburn is the craziest and one of the historically dirtiest programs in all of CFB, so, yeah, fuck it. There’s zero reputational risk because if it wasn’t for low class, Auburn wouldn’t have any class at all. 

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1 minute ago, closetojumping said:

“Well other people are doing it, so that justifies us doing it. “

No, the “current landscape” doesn’t make that nonsense any less embarrassing. But, hey, Auburn is the craziest and one of the historically dirtiest programs in all of CFB, so, yeah, fuck it. There’s zero reputational risk because if it wasn’t for low class, Auburn wouldn’t have any class at all. 

She’s advocating for it in multiple threads. It’s baffling. “Let’s act like aTm.”

Posted
8 hours ago, markstanco said:

They are going to suck so bad this year. Isn’t it auburn that has a coach calling the play on 1st down, another on 2nd and another on 3rd? Pretty sure I heard or read that.

I'm actually their special teams coach and I've been instructed by Coach Freeze to punt on third down in the opposite direction.

Keep this under your hats, surly

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Instead of gormlessly staring at random selector names, why not do some basic research?

The stupidity of the 2004 national title claim is well known by anyone who was alive and had a working pair of eyes that year. USC was the national champion, full stop. Tuberville now gets to tout himself as a "national championship" winning coach on the campaign trail, so that's one more lie on top of the pile.

Auburn was on probation in 1994, didn't play in the SEC championship or a bowl game, and finished No. 4 in the AP poll. FSU went wire-to-wire at No. 1 under Bowden except for a blip against No. 2 Notre Dame (who subsequently lost to BC) and defeated top-ranked Nebraska in Miami. Auburn was an afterthought and never made it higher than #3 in the AP poll.

Auburn finished second in the SEC in 1958 after tying Georgia Tech and didn't play in a bowl game, while LSU swept through the conference with a perfect 10-0 mark and demolished Clemson in the Sugar Bowl.

Auburn again finished second in their conference in 1914 after tying Georgia. Texas and Tennessee had perfect seasons, but neither claimed this year as a national championship because at the time it was generally acknowledged that, with the exception of John Heisman's juggernaut teams at Georgia Tech, the level of football played in the South was still not equivalent to that played in the North and Midwest. This wouldn't change until the mid-1920s, when Alabama shocked Washington in the Rose Bowl, "the game that changed the South". If a football team in the South not named Georgia Tech claims a national title prior to 1925, it's a bullshit and lazy rewriting of history. I can thus safely dismiss the rest of Auburn's claims from before 1914.

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