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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 .
View of the trophy on the sideline during the 2019 National Championship game. The College Football Playoff National Championship Trophy is the trophy awarded to the winner of the College Football Playoff (CFP), the postseason tournament in American college football that determines a national champion for the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS).
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 ...
[1] [2] [3] The 1947 team became the sixth Irish team to win a national title and the second in a row for Leahy. The squad is the second team in what is considered to be the Notre Dame Football dynasty, a stretch of games in which Notre Dame went 36–0–2 and won three national championships and two Heisman Trophies from 1946 to 1949. [1]
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 NCAA recognizes consensus national champions as the teams that have captured a championship by way of one of the major polls since the 1950 NCAA University Division football season. [50] [51] As they entered the Orange Bowl, the Crimson Tide was ranked fourth by the AP behind Michigan State, Arkansas and Nebraska. [52]
The 2003 team won the Associated Press (AP) national championship, while the 2004 team won the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) and AP championships. [2] Additionally, the 2005 team, named by some of the media as one of the best offenses in the history of college football, [3] played for the national championship where they lost to the Texas ...