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The concept of a national championship in college football dates to the early years of the sport in the late 19th century. [13] Some of the earliest contemporaneous rankings can be traced to Caspar Whitney in Harper's Weekly , J. Parmly Paret in Outing , [ 14 ] Charles Patterson, [ 15 ] and New York newspaper The Sun .
The participating teams in the College Football Playoff National Championship are determined by two semifinal games, hosted by an annual rotation of bowls commonly known as the New Year's Six. Thus, the teams to compete in the final are not directly selected by a selection committee, as had been the format used for the BCS National Championship ...
The 1920 Akron Pros were named the first APFA (NFL) champions. The National Football League champions, prior to the merger between the National Football League (NFL) and American Football League (AFL) in 1970, were determined by two different systems. The National Football League was established on September 17, 1920, as the American Professional Football Association (APFA). The APFA changed ...
The Irish will play for their first national championship trophy since 1988, while the Buckeyes will play for their first since 2014 — the first year of the College Football Playoff.
Sugar Bowl had scheduled these teams for an unbeaten vs. unbeaten matchup, but after Santa Clara's late loss on December 12 (two weeks after the final national championship-granting AP poll) "the South loses clear-cut claim to the distinction of staging the 'national championship' game on New Year's Day". Good discussion in the same column of ...
NCAA Division I champions are the winners of annual top-tier competitions among American college sports teams. This list also includes championships classified by the NCAA as "National Collegiate", the organization's official branding of championship events open to members of more than one of the NCAA's three legislative and competitive divisions.
Until LSU matched or even exceeded the feat a year later, the 2018 Tigers put together the most dominant two-game run of the four-team playoff era, beating Notre Dame 30-3 and Alabama 44-16.
NCAA Division III Football Champions (51 P) Pages in category "College football national champions" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 248 total.