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The Associated Press was not tied to the BCS, and the trophy could be awarded to a team which did not win the BCS National Championship Game. This has happened once after the 2003 season when LSU won the BCS title game, but USC received a higher total of votes in the final AP Poll, and therefore received the AP National Championship Trophy. [6 ...
The AP national championship trophy was presented to USC on December 31, the day before the Rose Bowl was played. No post-bowl polls were taken by the AP/UPI. The FWAA awarded the Grantland Rice Award to "the Trojans, victors in the Rose Bowl and undefeated and untied in 10 season games" post-bowl on January 7 .
The Veteran Athletes of Philadelphia put up the Bonniwell Trophy for the national championship in 1919 [19] under the stipulation that it was only "to be awarded in such years as produces a team whose standing is so preeminent as to make its selection as champion of America beyond dispute." Notre Dame was the first to be awarded the trophy, in ...
The trophy was designed by design firm Pentagram and crafted by the Polich Tallix fine art foundry of Rock Tavern, New York. College Football Playoff officials commissioned the trophy for the new playoff system, preferring a new award that was unconnected with the previous Bowl Championship Series (BCS) postseason system which was sometimes ...
Pages in category "College football championship trophies" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The team was selected national champion by Associated Press, International News Service, and United Press International, leading to a consensus national champion designation. [ 3 ] Schedule
The official name is the American Football Coaches Association National Championship Trophy; it was given this permanent name by the association in 2006. In 2009, the AFCA allowed universities to buy replica trophies for any year a school finished first in the Coaches Poll , from the 1950 to 1985 seasons, prior to the trophy's creation in 1986.
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