This from the Official Website of the NCAA. They list the champions from each orginazation. So as you can see last year Ohio State was not the National Champs in 3 polls. It will be interesting to see how they list LSU and USC. Past Division I-A Football National Champions The NCAA does not conduct a national championship in Division I-A football and is not involved in the selection process. Since 1998, the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) operated jointly by the ACC, Southeastern, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten and Pacific-10 Conferences uses a ranking system to determine the number one and number two teams at the end of the season. These two teams play each other in a post-season bowl game for the BCS national championship. Below is a year-by-year history of Division I-A football national champions as determined by various organizations: http://ncaa.com/champadmin/ia_football_past_champs.html
Are you telling me USC won a part of the title last year??? All I could keep up with was LSU because of my job.
IMHP College football is really f*cked up if USC supposedly wins a share of the title the last 2 years. Its not like they leave the left coast to play anyone that is in the top 25
This from Anderson http://www.andersonsports.com/football/ACF_frnk.html The Only Original and Unaltered BCS Computer Rankings... Showing Which Teams Have Accomplished the Most to Date LSU Wins the National Championship LSU was the most accomplished team this season, posting 3 wins vs. the final top-10 to USC's 1, and 5 wins vs. the final top-25 to USC's 2 LSU's 3 best wins: vs. #4 Oklahoma, #7 Georgia, and #7 Georgia again USC's 3 best wins: vs. #9 Michigan, #13 Washington St., and #31 Auburn LSU's next 3 best wins: vs. #17 Mississippi, #19 Arkansas, and #31 Auburn USC's next 3 best wins: vs. #37 Oregon St., #50 Notre Dame, and #52 UW LSU lost to #26 Florida, while USC lost to #35 Cal USC did beat 11 final top-75 teams to LSU's 8, but this does not make up for the Tigers having beaten more final top-50 (6 to 5), final top-25 (5 to 2), and final top-10 teams (3 to 1) than the Trojans Playing one more game (between LSU and USC) would have been the perfect scenario this season, but what about last season? Why should undefeated Ohio St. and Miami have had to win play-in games to meet each other on the field? The BCS system should not be (re-)designed to cater to a year when no team emerges as clearly deserving a bid to the championship game. LSU's .792 rating is by far the lowest for a national champion in the BCS era, as the Tigers are the first non-undefeated champions 4 of the 6 BCS conferences finished within .019 of each other, with the SEC edging the ACC, Pac-10, Big Ten and Big 12 for top honors, and with only the Big East trailing relatively far behind (.042 behind the Big 12)
