If Bammer wins tonight- will be the first time since 1937 the NC didnt win their conf
Big D said:
Hell there were some years where you had two out of one conference win a National Championship but it was all Readers Digest type of National Championship.
If you ever read up on the history of even the AP and UPI polls, it's really a joke for anyone to claim a national championship from any era. There were so many flaws in the voting for those two "legitimate" polls, much less the numerous other ranking systems that are used to outline who the previous champions were.
Our need to be able to list a No. 1 is the only reason it's even discussed.
I will admit that the BCS is a slightly better system and the number of games on TV makes voting a little more accurate, but I only put slightly more legitimacy in today's national champions over the historic ones.
They're all mythical in my opinion until they get it to at least 8 teams playing it out on the field. You'll always have an argument about that bubble team in the rankings, but it's better to have that bubble team be fighting for the 8th spot than fighting for the 2nd spot, or historically, the first spot.