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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 .
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 .
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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 ...
Alabama became the third team in history to win three national championships in a four-year period. This was Alabama's ninth AP national championship and tenth wire-service championship. [52] 2015 – The 2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, coached by Nick Saban, finished the regular season 11–1. Their only loss was to Ole Miss 43–37.
[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]
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 ...