A Simple way to determine which college team is The National Champion...

[Jack from Charlotte]

You don't have to argue over schedule strength, number of bowl teams beaten, number of quality wins or quality loses....

The real simple method to determine if your college team in the national champion.....

You look in your trophy case and if you see a Waterford crystal football with your school's name on it... you're the national champion. If you don't see it... your not the champ.

It's really that simple.

[joeybee12]

1. Florida sets a record! Three national titles, none deserved, all handed

to them! Enjoy!

[Jack from Charlotte]

2. Yup...........

Since The AP Poll has been awarding a National Champion since about 1932 or there abouts... there has only been two times that the Champion also played the #1 ranked most difficult schedule. Once was in 1996 when Florida won it and the other time was in 2007 when win Florida won it.

This year's Florida Championship came against the #4 ranked most difficult schedule as judged by The NCAA.

[mduffy31]

5. I beg to differ with the person with the sign

Green Bay Wisconsin is Titletown USA

[underpants]

6. In terms of college athletics Fayetteville Arkansas is Titletown

John McDonnell
Coach McDonnell led the track team to their first national championship at the 1984 NCAA Indoor Championships while the school was a member of the now-defunct Southwest Conference. Since then, the University of Arkansas has won 42 NCAA championships, including 11 cross country, 19 indoor track and 12 outdoor track. Other schools have won only 24 combined NCAA titles in the three sports during the same period.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McDonnell_(coach)#Coaching_accomplishments_at_Arkansas

Track and field

The most successful program in NCAA history, the Arkansas men's track and field teams, led by head coach John McDonnell are the most decorated teams in the athletics department. The program has won 43 national titles in Cross Country and Track & Field. One of its most famous stars is recent graduate Alistair Cragg who competed for Ireland at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Greece. Other Olympians have included Michael Conley, Daniel Lincoln, and Matt Hemingway. The team has a home indoor track at the Randal Tyson Track Center and outdoor field at John McDonnell Field, which is under renovation and expansion, and will host the 2009 NCAA Outdoor Track Championships.

The University of Arkansas has the unique honor of having the world's fastest man, Tyson Gay, and the world's fastest woman , Veronica Campbell as alumni.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Arkansas#Track_and_field

[mduffy31]

7. For total numbers I thought it was Los Angeles

I know that UCLA has over 100 total NCAA Championships, not to mention USC. That is why last year all of the "C's" on the uniforms were a different colour to symbolize that.

[Poiuyt]

9. Arkansas just had to vacate two national championships because of Tyson Gay

http://sports.excite.com/news/01082009/v0080.html

BTW, he's not the world's fastest man.

[floridablue]

4. CHOMP !

[nickgutierrez]

3. Right, and Bush got "elected" twice.

Honestly, any season that includes a home loss to unranked Ole Miss should not also include a shot at a National Championship.

[Awsi Dooger]

8. You've ignored your own criteria in the past

I can't count how many times you've desperately tried to retreat and denounce Canes titles, regardless of hardware.

Strength of schedule will always be bogus. I still have no idea how that was brainwashed into the national vocabulary and argument in the first place. I've posted that for years. No one in Las Vegas would be dense enough to focus on it. All you have to do is look at 2008. Oklahoma was promoted due to supposed schedule strength, when all they did was chuck and duck against a bunch of flimsy defenseless Big 12 frauds. Meanwhile, USC initiated about as aggressive a home-and-home series as you could find, playing Ohio State, yet was dismissed as playing a weak schedule. Then the bowl results show up and there's no room for a, "whoops, we screwed up..."

I don't quarrel with Florida's titles. They've had plenty of fortune. That's the only thing that irritates me. In particular, Gator fans have never accepted how ridiculously lucky the first one was, in '96. After Florida lost at FSU at the end of the season, they had no shot to play for the title unless all 3 of these results materialized:

* Ohio State losing at home to Michigan as an 18 point favorite
* Nebraska losing the Big 12 title game to Texas as a 21 point favorite
* Arizona State losing to Ohio State in the Rose Bowl as a 2 point underdog

Combined money line odds at time time, the actual straight up odds on those three games, the trifecta was literally more than 200/1.

[trumad]

10. Yeah he failed to see the irony in it...

Miami has 5 from football and 4 NCAA baseball championships.

Don't let Jack from toothville bother you to much... He was a closet Gator on this forum and only hopped onto the bandwagon recently.

[Jack from Charlotte]

12. Let me tell you something about Las Vegas......

since you seem to be it's dream customer.... a person addicted to gambling....

It always makes me laugh when I hear someone quote the betting point spreads as evidence that the point spread favorite just MUST be the better team. After all, those Vegas boys are just sooooo smart. I heard on Friday morning sports radio that Florida would be a 1 point favorite over S. Cal and a 14 pt fav over Utah.

The problem with this having any credibility is.... the point spread has nothing to do with houses thoughts on who is more likely to win the game. It set on how the... moron betters... thinks who will win the game and why care about what...morons.......think? Betters are losers.

See all those big hotels, casinos and fountains. They all cost billions of $$$ to build. And where'd the $$$ come from.... moronic gamblers..... too stupid to not bet when the odds are so much against them.

Oh, but wait. You're not one of them.... you one of the smart guys who.... wins his bets.

Yea. LOL!

And I'd expect a Miami C. fan to discount Sched strength when talking college football. Miami won it's 4 1/2* titles by qualifying for the big game by playing Temple 10 ten times. And playing in your home field had no effect either, right? Hell, Miami C. can't even go .500 in the vaunted ACC.

[cboy4]

11. It's not surprising that makes sense to you.