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Mythical national championship

January 01, 1970

A mythical national championship (sometimes abbreviated MNC) is national championship recognition that is not explicitly competitive. This phrase has often been invoked in reference to American college football, because the NCAA does not sponsor a playoff-style tournament or recognize official national champions for the Football Bowl Subdivision. The relevant recognition before 1998 came from various entities, including coach polls and media ballots, which each voted to recognize their own national champions, and is similar to the newspaper decision used in early boxing matches. The contrary term would be an undisputed national championship.

College football edit

Main article: College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS

If there are any Big Ten teams that shoot for a national championship, they're damn fools...You play to win the Big Ten championship, and if you win it and go to the Rose Bowl and win it, then you've had a great season. If they choose to vote you number one, then you're the national champion. But a national champion is a mythical national champion, and I think you guys ought to know that. It's mythical.

— Bo Schembechler of Michigan, July 1989[1]

"Mythical national champion" is a term that has been used since at least 1920[2] for a championship won by an NCAA Division I football team, especially for titles won before the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) system began in 1998. Before the BCS, polls in which coaches and/or sportswriters voted, such as the AP, UPI, and USA Today polls, awarded championships. This led to seasons in which two or more teams could claim to have won the national championship. Due to this, the NCAA does not designate a national champion for the sport in its record book.[3]

Since the 1930s, each top team has traditionally played a single postseason bowl game. The process of selecting a national champion during this time was complicated by the fact that the champions of major conferences were tied to specific bowls (for example, the Big 8 champion was tied to the Orange Bowl), and the top two teams in the nation often played in different bowls. A few bowls over the years featured a #1 vs. #2 matchup; one example was the 1987 Fiesta Bowl, played January 2 following the 1986 season.

Two attempts to annually crown a champion on the field were the Bowl Coalition (1992–94) and Bowl Alliance (1995–97). However, their effort to host a national championship was hampered by the lack of participation of the Pac-10 and Big Ten champions, who instead opted to play in the Rose Bowl.

The BCS was an improvement on the Bowl Coalition and Bowl Alliance because it included the Rose Bowl and the champions of what were then the nation's six most powerful conferences. It attempted to eliminate uncertainty by ranking college teams and inviting the top two teams at the end of the regular season to play in a championship game. These teams were determined by the BCS ranking formula, which itself used a combination of human voter polls and computer rankings. The process of selecting the two best teams for the BCS championship game had nonetheless resulted in controversy, which reached a head in 2003 when the AP poll refused to vote the BCS champions (LSU) as their national champions. Instead, the AP voted USC as national champions for the 2003 season. This resulted in disputes between which team was the real champion, and as a result, the 2003 BCS Champion is not unanimous. As a result of this controversy, the AP removed itself from the BCS formula in 2004. Furthermore, because of AP Poll policies, should a team under a postseason ban finish first in the AP Poll, the AP will recognise such team as the AP's national champion. The AP will also not recognise further penalties, which resulted in a vacated national championship in 2004 by most authorities but the AP still recognizes USC (which was stripped by the NCAA of wins and the BCS committee of its championship) despite the Reggie Bush penalties.

Since the 2014 season, the College Football Playoff—in association with Division I FBS collegiate conferences and independent schools, along with six bowl games—has been played among the top four teams (as selected by a thirteen-member committee) to play two semifinal bowl games followed by a CFP National Championship Game between the semifinal winners. However, the panel has been criticized for failing to recognize champions of conferences outside the five major conferences for participation in the CFP or the New Year's Six games.

At lower levels of play in college football, mythical national champion crowns also continue to exist, separate from NCAA and NAIA championships, in the form of the black college football national championship. This is competed for by teams from historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). In the present day, the winner of this crown at the NCAA Division I FCS level is generally considered to be the winner of the Celebration Bowl, DI FCS's only bowl game.

College basketball edit

Main article: NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament

The national championship of collegiate basketball that is officially recognized by the main governing body for collegiate athletics in the United States, the NCAA, has been awarded to the champion of an annual national post-season tournament run by the NCAA since 1939. Prior to the advent of national post-season college basketball tournaments, beginning with the NAIA national men's basketball championship in 1937, the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) in 1938[4] and the NCAA tournament in 1939, virtually no third-party organizations selected basketball national champions.

The Official NCAA Men's Basketball Records Book lists title selections of pre-tournament era teams by the Helms Athletic Foundation.[5][6][7][8][9] The Helms Foundation's Bill Schroeder named a national champion from 1901 to 1982, with his selections from 1901 to 1941 being named retroactively in 1943 and 1957.[9] The Helms champion, for the years in which the NIT and NCAA post-season tournaments were played, reflected the winners of the 1938 NIT and 1939 NIT, as well as the winners for all years of the NCAA Tournament except for 1939, 1940, 1944 and 1954.[10] Most recently, the retroactive end-of-year Premo-Porretta Power Poll has provided the first national rankings of college basketball teams for the 1895–96 through the 1947–48 seasons.[11] (No regular, recognized national polling took place prior to the establishment of the Associated Press Poll and the Coaches Poll for college basketball prior to the 1948–49 and 1950–51 seasons, respectively.[12]) The Premo-Porretta rankings were published in 2009 in the ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia. As with the Helms selections, the Premo-Porretta poll recognized the 1938 and 1939 NIT Champions as national champions; in addition to 1939, the poll's national championship selections differed from the results of the NCAA Tournament in 1941, 1943, 1944, 1945, and 1947.[13]

During World War II, from 1943 to 1945, the NCAA, NIT and Madison Square Garden cooperated to host "mythical national championship games" between winners of each year's NCAA and NIT tournaments in order to benefit the American Red Cross' War Fund.[14] The series was described by Ray Meyer, coach of the losing 1945 DePaul team, as "the games for the national championship".[14] The NCAA champion prevailed in all three games.[15][16]

During the early years of the two tournaments, the NCAA and NIT competed against each other, giving rise to debate over their relative prowess. In 1939, the inaugural year of the NCAA tournament, the NIT was generally considered to be superior.[14] During the 1940s, the relative status of the two tournaments was unclear, and thus some years produced disputed national championship claims. Some contemporary sources claim superiority for the NIT during this time.[17] In 1943, in a shrewd competitive move the NCAA tournament began sharing Madison Square Garden with the NIT.[14] In 1945, following victories by the NCAA champions over the NIT champions in the Red Cross games, The New York Times indicated that many teams who could potentially get bids to enter either tournament would probably choose the NCAA tournament "because it involves stronger competition."[18] In 1950, City College of New York won both the NIT and the NCAA tournaments in the same season, coincidentally defeating Bradley University in the championship game of both tournaments, and thus united the titles.

After the fall-out from the 1951 gambling and point-shaving scandals, the NCAA tournament pulled out of Madison Square Garden.[14] With conference champions and the majority of the top-ranked teams participating in it, the NCAA tournament since then came to be regarded as the more important post-season tourney and the sole determiner of the national championship, although following the taint of the gambling scandals, the NIT was still considered a quality tournament for some time afterward.[19][20][21] The NCAA built on the momentum of three consecutive Red Cross "mythical national championship" game victories over the NIT, eventually outmaneuvering the NIT by adeptly avoiding permanent damage from the 1951 gambling and point-shaving scandals and by adding more teams.[14] As the NCAA Tournament steadily gained prominence, it became the sole source of naming the national champion.

Schools that claim pre-NCAA Tournament basketball championships edit

In some years college teams won playoff series or tournaments played on the court for a national championship, such as the annual AAU tournaments. In addition, many schools claim or recognize pre-tournament era national college basketball championships by virtue of being selected retrospectively by third-party selectors, such as Bill Schroeder at the Helms Athletic Foundation, including the Kansas,[22] Purdue,[23] Stanford,[24] North Carolina,[25] the Pittsburgh,[26] Wisconsin,[27] Syracuse,[28] and Washington State.[29] LSU claims the 1935 championship by virtue of winning the American Legion Bowl game against Pittsburgh in a match-up of regional powers.[30]

Multiple schools claim a national championship based on their NIT championships: Temple (1938),[31] Long Island (in 1939 and 1941),[32] West Virginia (1942),[33] DePaul (1945),[34] Utah (1947),[35] San Francisco (1949),[36] BYU (1951 and 1966),[37] La Salle (1952),[38] Seton Hall (1953),[39] Holy Cross (1954),[40] Duquesne (1955),[41] Louisville (1956),[42] Xavier (1958),[43] Providence (1961 and 1963),[44] and Southern Illinois (1967).[45][46] Long Island and Kentucky also recognize their selections as the 1939 and 1954 national champions by the Helms Foundation's Bill Schroeder during seasons that a different NCAA Champion was crowned.[47][48]

The following table is a partial list of schools that claim a national championship from the pre-NCAA Tournament era of college basketball. See also Helms Athletic Foundation basketball national titles.[9] Not all schools recognize national championship honors bestowed by third-party selectors, although almost every school with a team named as a Helms national champion claims the title for the selected seasons.

Tournament/playoff winners

Year (pre-1939) School Source
1904 Hiram[49] 1904 Olympic Games college championship tournament
1908 Chicago[50][51] National Championship Playoff
1916 Utah[52] AAU tournament
1920 New York University[52]
Pennsylvania[53] 		AAU tournament
National Championship Playoff
1922 Wabash[54] First National Collegiate Championship Tournament
1924 Butler[52][55] AAU tournament
1925 Washburn[52] AAU tournament
1930 Pittsburgh[56] Naismith Basketball HOF Championship Game
1935 LSU[57] American Legion Bowl Game
1937 Central Missouri[58] National Inter-collegiate Basketball Tournament (NAIA)
1938 Temple[59]
Central Missouri[58] 		NIT
National Inter-collegiate Basketball Tournament (NAIA)

Retrospective selections

Year (pre-1939) School Source
1901 Yale[60] Helms Athletic Foundation[9]
1902 Minnesota[61] Helms Athletic Foundation
1903 Yale[62] Helms Athletic Foundation
1911 St. John's[63] Helms Athletic Foundation
1912 Wisconsin[64] Helms Athletic Foundation
1913 Navy[65] Helms Athletic Foundation
1914 Wisconsin[66] Helms Athletic Foundation
1915 Illinois[67] Helms Athletic Foundation
1916 Wisconsin[68] Helms Athletic Foundation
1917 Washington State[69] Helms Athletic Foundation
1918 Syracuse[70] Helms Athletic Foundation
1919 Minnesota[71] Helms Athletic Foundation
1920 Pennsylvania[72] Helms Athletic Foundation, Premo-Porretta
1921 Pennsylvania[73] Helms Athletic Foundation
1922 Kansas[74] Helms Athletic Foundation
1923 Kansas[74] Helms Athletic Foundation
1924 North Carolina[75] Helms Athletic Foundation
1925 Princeton Helms Athletic Foundation
1926 Syracuse[70] Helms Athletic Foundation
1927 Notre Dame[76] Helms Athletic Foundation
1928 Pittsburgh[77] Helms Athletic Foundation
1929 Butler[55]
Montana State[78] 		Veteran Athletes of Philadelphia
Helms Athletic Foundation
1930 Pittsburgh[79] Helms Athletic Foundation
1931 Northwestern Helms Athletic Foundation
1932 Purdue[80] Helms Athletic Foundation, Premo-Porretta
1933 Kentucky[81] Helms Athletic Foundation
1934 Wyoming[82] Helms Athletic Foundation
1935 New York University[83] Helms Athletic Foundation
1936 Notre Dame[76] Helms Athletic Foundation
1937 Stanford[84] Helms Athletic Foundation
1938 Temple[59] Helms Athletic Foundation

Historically black colleges and universities edit

Black national basketball championships edit

In 1941, Southern University, coached by the famed football coach Ace Mumford, defeated North Carolina Central, 48–42, in the National Invitational Intercollegiate Basketball Tournament; this tournament was held because the NIT would not invite HBCUs at the time. NCCU was still designated national champions by the Associated Negro Press that year.[85] There would be several other attempts at creating HBCU national tournaments in the 1940s.[86][87] In late 1947, National Championships, Inc. announced that they would begin hosting a postseason football bowl game and basketball tournament for HBCUs;[88] the basketball tournament does not appear to have been held. Jet magazine began sponsoring HBCU basketball polls in 1974.[89] Dr. Cavil's Classic Cuts names champions for a "Major Division" (NCAA Division I)[90] and a "Mid-Major Division" (NCAA Division II, NAIA Division I, and NAIA Division II).[91]

The following table contains a list of men's black national champions.

Yearly national championship selections (men) edit

Year School Source
1941 Southern[85] National Invitational Intercollegiate Basketball Tournament (def. North Carolina Central, 48–42)
North Carolina Central[85] Associated Negro Press
1942–1943 (no champions selected)
1944 Lincoln (PA)[86] Negro National Championship game (def. North Carolina Central, 57–52)
1945 (no champion selected)
1946 Langston[87] Unspecified "national tournament" championship game, which may have actually been an early-era SWAC basketball tournament; (def. Southern)
1947–1973 (no champions selected)
1974 Maryland Eastern Shore[89] Jet
1975 Kentucky State[92] Jet
1976 Alcorn State[93] Jet
1977 Kentucky State[94] Jet
1978 Winston–Salem State[95] Jet
1979 (no champion selected)
1980 Alcorn State[96] Jet
1981 Savannah State[97] Jet
1982 Xavier (LA)[98] Jet
1983 UDC[99] Jet
1984 Norfolk State[100] Jet
1985 Virginia Union[101] Jet
1986 Cheyney[102] Jet
1987 Norfolk State[103] Jet
1995 Texas Southern[104] American Sports Wire
1996 South Carolina State[105] American Sports Wire
1998 South Carolina State[105] American Sports Wire
2000 South Carolina State[105] American Sports Wire
2009 Morgan State (Major Division)[106]
Claflin (Mid-Major Division)[107] 		Dr. Cavil's Classic Cuts
2010 Morgan State (Major Division)[108]
(unavailable) (Mid-Major Division) 		Dr. Cavil's Classic Cuts
2011 (unavailable)
2012 Norfolk State[109] Black College Sports Page
Norfolk State (Major Division)[90]
Shaw (Mid-Major Division)[110] 		Dr. Cavil's Classic Cuts
2013 Benedict College[111] Black College Sports Page
Southern (Major Division)[90]
Benedict College (Mid-Major Division)[110] 		Dr. Cavil's Classic Cuts
2014 North Carolina Central[112] Black College Sports Page
North Carolina Central (Major Division)[113]
Wiley College (Mid-Major Division)[91] 		Dr. Cavil's Classic Cuts
2015 Texas Southern (NCAA Division I)
Livingstone College (NCAA Division II)[114] 		Black College Sports Page
Texas Southern (Major Division)[115]
Talladega College (Mid-Major Division)[116] 		Dr. Cavil's Classic Cuts
2016 Hampton (NCAA Division I)
Virginia State (NCAA Division II)[117] 		Black College Sports Page
2017 North Carolina Central (NCAA Division I)
Clark Atlanta (NCAA Division II)[118] 		Black College Sports Page
2018 Texas Southern (NCAA Division I)
Claflin (NCAA Division II)[119] 		Black College Sports Page
2019 Prairie View A&M (NCAA Division I)
Virginia State (NCAA Division II)[120] 		Black College Sports Page

National championships by school (men) edit

School National championships Seasons
Norfolk State 3 1984, 1987, 2012
North Carolina Central 3 1941, 2014, 2017
South Carolina State 3 1996, 1998, 2000
Texas Southern 3 1995, 2015, 2018
Alcorn State 2 1976, 1980
Claflin 2 2009, 2018
Kentucky State 2 1975, 1977
Morgan State 2 2009, 2010
Southern 2 1941, 2013
Virginia State 2 2016, 2019
Benedict College 1 2013
Cheyney 1 1986
Clark Atlanta 1 2017
Hampton 1 2016
Langston 1 1946
Lincoln (PA) 1 1944
Livingstone College 1 2015
Maryland Eastern Shore 1 1974
Prairie View A&M 1 2019
Savannah State 1 1981
Shaw 1 2012
Talladega College 1 2015
UDC 1 1983
Virginia Union 1 1985
Wiley College 1 2014
Winston–Salem State 1 1978
Xavier (LA) 1 1982

The following table contains a list of women's black national champions.

Yearly national championship selections (women) edit

Year School Source
1978 South Carolina State[95] Jet
1979–1981 (no champions selected)
1982 Claflin[98] Jet
1983 Norfolk State[99] Jet
1984 Dillard[100] Jet
1985 Hampton[101] Jet
1986 Alabama A&M[102] Jet
1987 Albany State[103] Jet
2007 Coppin State
North Carolina Central[121] 		Black College Sports Page
2008 (unavailable)
2009 North Carolina A&T (Major Division)[122]
Langston (Mid-Major Division)[123] 		Dr. Cavil's Classic Cuts
2010 North Carolina A&T (Major Division)[124]
(unavailable) (Mid-Major Division) 		Dr. Cavil's Classic Cuts
2011 (unavailable)
2012 Shaw[125] Black College Sports Page
(unavailable) (Major Division)
Shaw (Mid-Major Division)[110] 		Dr. Cavil's Classic Cuts
2013 Hampton[126] Black College Sports Page
Hampton (Major Division)[127]
Wiley College (Mid-Major Division)[110] 		Dr. Cavil's Classic Cuts
2014 Hampton[128] Black College Sports Page
Hampton (Major Division)[129]
Wiley College (Mid-Major Division)[130] 		Dr. Cavil's Classic Cuts
2015 Savannah State (NCAA Division I)
UDC (NCAA Division II)[114] 		Black College Sports Page
Texas Southern (Major Division)[131]
UDC (Mid-Major Division)[132] 		Dr. Cavil's Classic Cuts
2016 North Carolina A&T (NCAA Division I)
Virginia Union (NCAA Division II)[117] 		Black College Sports Page
2017 Texas Southern (NCAA Division I)
Virginia Union (NCAA Division II)[118] 		Black College Sports Page
2018 North Carolina A&T (NCAA Division I)
Virginia Union (NCAA Division II)[119] 		Black College Sports Page
2019 Southern (NCAA Division I)
Virginia Union (NCAA Division II)[120] 		Black College Sports Page

National championships by school (women) edit

School National championships Seasons
North Carolina A&T 4 2009, 2010, 2016, 2018
Virginia Union 4 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
Hampton 3 1985, 2013, 2014
Texas Southern 2 2015, 2017
Wiley College 2 2013, 2014
Alabama A&M 1 1986
Albany State 1 1987
Claflin 1 1982
Coppin State 1 2007
Dillard 1 1984
Langston 1 2009
Norfolk State 1 1983
North Carolina Central 1 2007
Savannah State 1 2015
Shaw 1 2012
South Carolina State 1 1978
Southern 1 2019
UDC 1 2015

Black national baseball championships edit

HBCUs first had a mythical black national champion named in 2002, by blackcollegebaseball.com. More recently, a black national champion has been named since 2015, by blackcollegenines.com. The latter names champions for a "Large School Division" (NCAA Division I) and a "Small School Division" (NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III, and the NAIA).[133]

Yearly national championship selections edit

Year School Source
2002 Bethune–Cookman[134] blackcollegebaseball.com
2003 Southern[134] blackcollegebaseball.com
2004 Bethune–Cookman[134] blackcollegebaseball.com
2005 North Carolina A&T
Southern[134] 		blackcollegebaseball.com
2006 Prairie View A&M[134] blackcollegebaseball.com
2007 Bethune–Cookman[134] blackcollegebaseball.com
2008 Bethune–Cookman[134] blackcollegebaseball.com
2009 Bethune–Cookman[134] blackcollegebaseball.com
2010 Bethune–Cookman (NCAA Division I)
West Virginia State (NCAA Division II & NAIA)[134] 		blackcollegebaseball.com
2011 Bethune–Cookman (NCAA Division I)
Edward Waters College (NCAA Division II & NAIA)[134] 		blackcollegebaseball.com
2012[135] (unavailable) (NCAA Division I) *
(unavailable) (NCAA Division II & NAIA) * 		blackcollegebaseball.com
2013–2014 (no champions selected)[135]
2015 Alabama State (Large School Division)[136]
Winston–Salem State (Small School Division)[137] 		blackcollegenines.com
2016 Alabama State (Large School Division)[138][139]
West Virginia State (Small School Division)[138] 		blackcollegenines.com
2017 Bethune–Cookman (Large School Division)
Winston–Salem State (Small School Division)[137] 		blackcollegenines.com
2018 North Carolina A&T (Large School Division)
Albany State (Small School Division)[140] 		blackcollegenines.com
2019 Southern (Large School Division)
Winston–Salem State (Small School Division)[141] 		blackcollegenines.com

Note: *Alcorn State, St. Augustine's, and Stillman College are listed by a source as having been named black national champions by blackcollegebaseball.com, but the year(s) of the championships is not specified by the source;[133] the year could be 2012, since champions were reportedly named that year[135]

National championships by school edit

School National championships Seasons
Bethune–Cookman 8 2002, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2017
Southern 3 2003, 2005, 2019
Winston–Salem State 3 2015, 2017, 2019
Alabama State 2 2015, 2016
North Carolina A&T 2 2005, 2018
West Virginia State 2 2010, 2016
Albany State 1 2018
Edward Waters College 1 2011
Prairie View A&M 1 2006

High school sports edit

Main article: High school football national championship

Because high school sports in the United States such as football and basketball are state-centered sports involving thousands of schools, it would be almost impossible to have a national championship playoff. A single-game playoff for football, however, was attempted in 1938 and 1939, it was particularly difficult at that time due to many states' prohibition of postseason games. Nearly all states crown several champions in different classifications, which are not uniform from state to state, based upon school enrollments.

Some publications and internet sites release nationwide rankings for high school sports based on polls or mathematical formulas which take into account various factors like average margin of victory and strength of schedule. Schools that finish atop these rankings, particularly the USA Today poll, often claim to be national champions, and the press calls them "mythical national champions".[142]

National Football League edit

In the earliest days of the National Football League, the NFL championship was determined by a formula and by the votes of the NFL owners. In three instances, 1920, 1921 and 1925, this led to disputed titles. In 1932, two teams tied atop the standings led to a one-game playoff for the championship, which was made permanent the next year. There has been some sort of NFL playoff ever since, and as the league grew, so too did the tournament, which eventually took form as the single-elimination tournament it is today.

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mythical, national, championship, mythical, national, championship, sometimes, abbreviated, national, championship, recognition, that, explicitly, competitive, this, phrase, often, been, invoked, reference, american, college, football, because, ncaa, does, spo. A mythical national championship sometimes abbreviated MNC is national championship recognition that is not explicitly competitive This phrase has often been invoked in reference to American college football because the NCAA does not sponsor a playoff style tournament or recognize official national champions for the Football Bowl Subdivision The relevant recognition before 1998 came from various entities including coach polls and media ballots which each voted to recognize their own national champions and is similar to the newspaper decision used in early boxing matches The contrary term would be an undisputed national championship Contents 1 College football 2 College basketball 2 1 Schools that claim pre NCAA Tournament basketball championships 3 Historically black colleges and universities 3 1 Black national basketball championships 3 1 1 Yearly national championship selections men 3 1 2 National championships by school men 3 1 3 Yearly national championship selections women 3 1 4 National championships by school women 3 2 Black national baseball championships 3 2 1 Yearly national championship selections 3 2 2 National championships by school 4 High school sports 5 National Football League 6 ReferencesCollege football editMain article College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS If there are any Big Ten teams that shoot for a national championship they re damn fools You play to win the Big Ten championship and if you win it and go to the Rose Bowl and win it then you ve had a great season If they choose to vote you number one then you re the national champion But a national champion is a mythical national champion and I think you guys ought to know that It s mythical Bo Schembechler of Michigan July 1989 1 Mythical national champion is a term that has been used since at least 1920 2 for a championship won by an NCAA Division I football team especially for titles won before the Bowl Championship Series BCS system began in 1998 Before the BCS polls in which coaches and or sportswriters voted such as the AP UPI and USA Today polls awarded championships This led to seasons in which two or more teams could claim to have won the national championship Due to this the NCAA does not designate a national champion for the sport in its record book 3 Since the 1930s each top team has traditionally played a single postseason bowl game The process of selecting a national champion during this time was complicated by the fact that the champions of major conferences were tied to specific bowls for example the Big 8 champion was tied to the Orange Bowl and the top two teams in the nation often played in different bowls A few bowls over the years featured a 1 vs 2 matchup one example was the 1987 Fiesta Bowl played January 2 following the 1986 season Two attempts to annually crown a champion on the field were the Bowl Coalition 1992 94 and Bowl Alliance 1995 97 However their effort to host a national championship was hampered by the lack of participation of the Pac 10 and Big Ten champions who instead opted to play in the Rose Bowl The BCS was an improvement on the Bowl Coalition and Bowl Alliance because it included the Rose Bowl and the champions of what were then the nation s six most powerful conferences It attempted to eliminate uncertainty by ranking college teams and inviting the top two teams at the end of the regular season to play in a championship game These teams were determined by the BCS ranking formula which itself used a combination of human voter polls and computer rankings The process of selecting the two best teams for the BCS championship game had nonetheless resulted in controversy which reached a head in 2003 when the AP poll refused to vote the BCS champions LSU as their national champions Instead the AP voted USC as national champions for the 2003 season This resulted in disputes between which team was the real champion and as a result the 2003 BCS Champion is not unanimous As a result of this controversy the AP removed itself from the BCS formula in 2004 Furthermore because of AP Poll policies should a team under a postseason ban finish first in the AP Poll the AP will recognise such team as the AP s national champion The AP will also not recognise further penalties which resulted in a vacated national championship in 2004 by most authorities but the AP still recognizes USC which was stripped by the NCAA of wins and the BCS committee of its championship despite the Reggie Bush penalties Since the 2014 season the College Football Playoff in association with Division I FBS collegiate conferences and independent schools along with six bowl games has been played among the top four teams as selected by a thirteen member committee to play two semifinal bowl games followed by a CFP National Championship Game between the semifinal winners However the panel has been criticized for failing to recognize champions of conferences outside the five major conferences for participation in the CFP or the New Year s Six games At lower levels of play in college football mythical national champion crowns also continue to exist separate from NCAA and NAIA championships in the form of the black college football national championship This is competed for by teams from historically black colleges and universities HBCUs In the present day the winner of this crown at the NCAA Division I FCS level is generally considered to be the winner of the Celebration Bowl DI FCS s only bowl game College basketball editMain article NCAA Division I men s basketball tournament The national championship of collegiate basketball that is officially recognized by the main governing body for collegiate athletics in the United States the NCAA has been awarded to the champion of an annual national post season tournament run by the NCAA since 1939 Prior to the advent of national post season college basketball tournaments beginning with the NAIA national men s basketball championship in 1937 the National Invitation Tournament NIT in 1938 4 and the NCAA tournament in 1939 virtually no third party organizations selected basketball national champions The Official NCAA Men s Basketball Records Book lists title selections of pre tournament era teams by the Helms Athletic Foundation 5 6 7 8 9 The Helms Foundation s Bill Schroeder named a national champion from 1901 to 1982 with his selections from 1901 to 1941 being named retroactively in 1943 and 1957 9 The Helms champion for the years in which the NIT and NCAA post season tournaments were played reflected the winners of the 1938 NIT and 1939 NIT as well as the winners for all years of the NCAA Tournament except for 1939 1940 1944 and 1954 10 Most recently the retroactive end of year Premo Porretta Power Poll has provided the first national rankings of college basketball teams for the 1895 96 through the 1947 48 seasons 11 No regular recognized national polling took place prior to the establishment of the Associated Press Poll and the Coaches Poll for college basketball prior to the 1948 49 and 1950 51 seasons respectively 12 The Premo Porretta rankings were published in 2009 in the ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia As with the Helms selections the Premo Porretta poll recognized the 1938 and 1939 NIT Champions as national champions in addition to 1939 the poll s national championship selections differed from the results of the NCAA Tournament in 1941 1943 1944 1945 and 1947 13 During World War II from 1943 to 1945 the NCAA NIT and Madison Square Garden cooperated to host mythical national championship games between winners of each year s NCAA and NIT tournaments in order to benefit the American Red Cross War Fund 14 The series was described by Ray Meyer coach of the losing 1945 DePaul team as the games for the national championship 14 The NCAA champion prevailed in all three games 15 16 During the early years of the two tournaments the NCAA and NIT competed against each other giving rise to debate over their relative prowess In 1939 the inaugural year of the NCAA tournament the NIT was generally considered to be superior 14 During the 1940s the relative status of the two tournaments was unclear and thus some years produced disputed national championship claims Some contemporary sources claim superiority for the NIT during this time 17 In 1943 in a shrewd competitive move the NCAA tournament began sharing Madison Square Garden with the NIT 14 In 1945 following victories by the NCAA champions over the NIT champions in the Red Cross games The New York Times indicated that many teams who could potentially get bids to enter either tournament would probably choose the NCAA tournament because it involves stronger competition 18 In 1950 City College of New York won both the NIT and the NCAA tournaments in the same season coincidentally defeating Bradley University in the championship game of both tournaments and thus united the titles After the fall out from the 1951 gambling and point shaving scandals the NCAA tournament pulled out of Madison Square Garden 14 With conference champions and the majority of the top ranked teams participating in it the NCAA tournament since then came to be regarded as the more important post season tourney and the sole determiner of the national championship although following the taint of the gambling scandals the NIT was still considered a quality tournament for some time afterward 19 20 21 The NCAA built on the momentum of three consecutive Red Cross mythical national championship game victories over the NIT eventually outmaneuvering the NIT by adeptly avoiding permanent damage from the 1951 gambling and point shaving scandals and by adding more teams 14 As the NCAA Tournament steadily gained prominence it became the sole source of naming the national champion Schools that claim pre NCAA Tournament basketball championships edit In some years college teams won playoff series or tournaments played on the court for a national championship such as the annual AAU tournaments In addition many schools claim or recognize pre tournament era national college basketball championships by virtue of being selected retrospectively by third party selectors such as Bill Schroeder at the Helms Athletic Foundation including the Kansas 22 Purdue 23 Stanford 24 North Carolina 25 the Pittsburgh 26 Wisconsin 27 Syracuse 28 and Washington State 29 LSU claims the 1935 championship by virtue of winning the American Legion Bowl game against Pittsburgh in a match up of regional powers 30 Multiple schools claim a national championship based on their NIT championships Temple 1938 31 Long Island in 1939 and 1941 32 West Virginia 1942 33 DePaul 1945 34 Utah 1947 35 San Francisco 1949 36 BYU 1951 and 1966 37 La Salle 1952 38 Seton Hall 1953 39 Holy Cross 1954 40 Duquesne 1955 41 Louisville 1956 42 Xavier 1958 43 Providence 1961 and 1963 44 and Southern Illinois 1967 45 46 Long Island and Kentucky also recognize their selections as the 1939 and 1954 national champions by the Helms Foundation s Bill Schroeder during seasons that a different NCAA Champion was crowned 47 48 The following table is a partial list of schools that claim a national championship from the pre NCAA Tournament era of college basketball See also Helms Athletic Foundation basketball national titles 9 Not all schools recognize national championship honors bestowed by third party selectors although almost every school with a team named as a Helms national champion claims the title for the selected seasons Tournament playoff winners Year pre 1939 School Source 1904 Hiram 49 1904 Olympic Games college championship tournament 1908 Chicago 50 51 National Championship Playoff 1916 Utah 52 AAU tournament 1920 New York University 52 Pennsylvania 53 AAU tournamentNational Championship Playoff 1922 Wabash 54 First National Collegiate Championship Tournament 1924 Butler 52 55 AAU tournament 1925 Washburn 52 AAU tournament 1930 Pittsburgh 56 Naismith Basketball HOF Championship Game 1935 LSU 57 American Legion Bowl Game 1937 Central Missouri 58 National Inter collegiate Basketball Tournament NAIA 1938 Temple 59 Central Missouri 58 NITNational Inter collegiate Basketball Tournament NAIA Retrospective selections Year pre 1939 School Source 1901 Yale 60 Helms Athletic Foundation 9 1902 Minnesota 61 Helms Athletic Foundation 1903 Yale 62 Helms Athletic Foundation 1911 St John s 63 Helms Athletic Foundation 1912 Wisconsin 64 Helms Athletic Foundation 1913 Navy 65 Helms Athletic Foundation 1914 Wisconsin 66 Helms Athletic Foundation 1915 Illinois 67 Helms Athletic Foundation 1916 Wisconsin 68 Helms Athletic Foundation 1917 Washington State 69 Helms Athletic Foundation 1918 Syracuse 70 Helms Athletic Foundation 1919 Minnesota 71 Helms Athletic Foundation 1920 Pennsylvania 72 Helms Athletic Foundation Premo Porretta 1921 Pennsylvania 73 Helms Athletic Foundation 1922 Kansas 74 Helms Athletic Foundation 1923 Kansas 74 Helms Athletic Foundation 1924 North Carolina 75 Helms Athletic Foundation 1925 Princeton Helms Athletic Foundation 1926 Syracuse 70 Helms Athletic Foundation 1927 Notre Dame 76 Helms Athletic Foundation 1928 Pittsburgh 77 Helms Athletic Foundation 1929 Butler 55 Montana State 78 Veteran Athletes of PhiladelphiaHelms Athletic Foundation 1930 Pittsburgh 79 Helms Athletic Foundation 1931 Northwestern Helms Athletic Foundation 1932 Purdue 80 Helms Athletic Foundation Premo Porretta 1933 Kentucky 81 Helms Athletic Foundation 1934 Wyoming 82 Helms Athletic Foundation 1935 New York University 83 Helms Athletic Foundation 1936 Notre Dame 76 Helms Athletic Foundation 1937 Stanford 84 Helms Athletic Foundation 1938 Temple 59 Helms Athletic FoundationHistorically black colleges and universities editBlack national basketball championships edit In 1941 Southern University coached by the famed football coach Ace Mumford defeated North Carolina Central 48 42 in the National Invitational Intercollegiate Basketball Tournament this tournament was held because the NIT would not invite HBCUs at the time NCCU was still designated national champions by the Associated Negro Press that year 85 There would be several other attempts at creating HBCU national tournaments in the 1940s 86 87 In late 1947 National Championships Inc announced that they would begin hosting a postseason football bowl game and basketball tournament for HBCUs 88 the basketball tournament does not appear to have been held Jet magazine began sponsoring HBCU basketball polls in 1974 89 Dr Cavil s Classic Cuts names champions for a Major Division NCAA Division I 90 and a Mid Major Division NCAA Division II NAIA Division I and NAIA Division II 91 The following table contains a list of men s black national champions This list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items July 2017 Yearly national championship selections men edit Year School Source 1941 Southern 85 National Invitational Intercollegiate Basketball Tournament def North Carolina Central 48 42 North Carolina Central 85 Associated Negro Press 1942 1943 no champions selected 1944 Lincoln PA 86 Negro National Championship game def North Carolina Central 57 52 1945 no champion selected 1946 Langston 87 Unspecified national tournament championship game which may have actually been an early era SWAC basketball tournament def Southern 1947 1973 no champions selected 1974 Maryland Eastern Shore 89 Jet 1975 Kentucky State 92 Jet 1976 Alcorn State 93 Jet 1977 Kentucky State 94 Jet 1978 Winston Salem State 95 Jet 1979 no champion selected 1980 Alcorn State 96 Jet 1981 Savannah State 97 Jet 1982 Xavier LA 98 Jet 1983 UDC 99 Jet 1984 Norfolk State 100 Jet 1985 Virginia Union 101 Jet 1986 Cheyney 102 Jet 1987 Norfolk State 103 Jet 1995 Texas Southern 104 American Sports Wire 1996 South Carolina State 105 American Sports Wire 1998 South Carolina State 105 American Sports Wire 2000 South Carolina State 105 American Sports Wire 2009 Morgan State Major Division 106 Claflin Mid Major Division 107 Dr Cavil s Classic Cuts 2010 Morgan State Major Division 108 unavailable Mid Major Division Dr Cavil s Classic Cuts 2011 unavailable 2012 Norfolk State 109 Black College Sports Page Norfolk State Major Division 90 Shaw Mid Major Division 110 Dr Cavil s Classic Cuts 2013 Benedict College 111 Black College Sports Page Southern Major Division 90 Benedict College Mid Major Division 110 Dr Cavil s Classic Cuts 2014 North Carolina Central 112 Black College Sports Page North Carolina Central Major Division 113 Wiley College Mid Major Division 91 Dr Cavil s Classic Cuts 2015 Texas Southern NCAA Division I Livingstone College NCAA Division II 114 Black College Sports Page Texas Southern Major Division 115 Talladega College Mid Major Division 116 Dr Cavil s Classic Cuts 2016 Hampton NCAA Division I Virginia State NCAA Division II 117 Black College Sports Page 2017 North Carolina Central NCAA Division I Clark Atlanta NCAA Division II 118 Black College Sports Page 2018 Texas Southern NCAA Division I Claflin NCAA Division II 119 Black College Sports Page 2019 Prairie View A amp M NCAA Division I Virginia State NCAA Division II 120 Black College Sports Page National championships by school men edit School National championships Seasons Norfolk State 3 1984 1987 2012 North Carolina Central 3 1941 2014 2017 South Carolina State 3 1996 1998 2000 Texas Southern 3 1995 2015 2018 Alcorn State 2 1976 1980 Claflin 2 2009 2018 Kentucky State 2 1975 1977 Morgan State 2 2009 2010 Southern 2 1941 2013 Virginia State 2 2016 2019 Benedict College 1 2013 Cheyney 1 1986 Clark Atlanta 1 2017 Hampton 1 2016 Langston 1 1946 Lincoln PA 1 1944 Livingstone College 1 2015 Maryland Eastern Shore 1 1974 Prairie View A amp M 1 2019 Savannah State 1 1981 Shaw 1 2012 Talladega College 1 2015 UDC 1 1983 Virginia Union 1 1985 Wiley College 1 2014 Winston Salem State 1 1978 Xavier LA 1 1982 The following table contains a list of women s black national champions This list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items July 2017 Yearly national championship selections women edit Year School Source 1978 South Carolina State 95 Jet 1979 1981 no champions selected 1982 Claflin 98 Jet 1983 Norfolk State 99 Jet 1984 Dillard 100 Jet 1985 Hampton 101 Jet 1986 Alabama A amp M 102 Jet 1987 Albany State 103 Jet 2007 Coppin StateNorth Carolina Central 121 Black College Sports Page 2008 unavailable 2009 North Carolina A amp T Major Division 122 Langston Mid Major Division 123 Dr Cavil s Classic Cuts 2010 North Carolina A amp T Major Division 124 unavailable Mid Major Division Dr Cavil s Classic Cuts 2011 unavailable 2012 Shaw 125 Black College Sports Page unavailable Major Division Shaw Mid Major Division 110 Dr Cavil s Classic Cuts 2013 Hampton 126 Black College Sports Page Hampton Major Division 127 Wiley College Mid Major Division 110 Dr Cavil s Classic Cuts 2014 Hampton 128 Black College Sports Page Hampton Major Division 129 Wiley College Mid Major Division 130 Dr Cavil s Classic Cuts 2015 Savannah State NCAA Division I UDC NCAA Division II 114 Black College Sports Page Texas Southern Major Division 131 UDC Mid Major Division 132 Dr Cavil s Classic Cuts 2016 North Carolina A amp T NCAA Division I Virginia Union NCAA Division II 117 Black College Sports Page 2017 Texas Southern NCAA Division I Virginia Union NCAA Division II 118 Black College Sports Page 2018 North Carolina A amp T NCAA Division I Virginia Union NCAA Division II 119 Black College Sports Page 2019 Southern NCAA Division I Virginia Union NCAA Division II 120 Black College Sports Page National championships by school women edit School National championships Seasons North Carolina A amp T 4 2009 2010 2016 2018 Virginia Union 4 2016 2017 2018 2019 Hampton 3 1985 2013 2014 Texas Southern 2 2015 2017 Wiley College 2 2013 2014 Alabama A amp M 1 1986 Albany State 1 1987 Claflin 1 1982 Coppin State 1 2007 Dillard 1 1984 Langston 1 2009 Norfolk State 1 1983 North Carolina Central 1 2007 Savannah State 1 2015 Shaw 1 2012 South Carolina State 1 1978 Southern 1 2019 UDC 1 2015 Black national baseball championships edit HBCUs first had a mythical black national champion named in 2002 by blackcollegebaseball com More recently a black national champion has been named since 2015 by blackcollegenines com The latter names champions for a Large School Division NCAA Division I and a Small School Division NCAA Division II NCAA Division III and the NAIA 133 Yearly national championship selections edit Year School Source 2002 Bethune Cookman 134 blackcollegebaseball com 2003 Southern 134 blackcollegebaseball com 2004 Bethune Cookman 134 blackcollegebaseball com 2005 North Carolina A amp TSouthern 134 blackcollegebaseball com 2006 Prairie View A amp M 134 blackcollegebaseball com 2007 Bethune Cookman 134 blackcollegebaseball com 2008 Bethune Cookman 134 blackcollegebaseball com 2009 Bethune Cookman 134 blackcollegebaseball com 2010 Bethune Cookman NCAA Division I West Virginia State NCAA Division II amp NAIA 134 blackcollegebaseball com 2011 Bethune Cookman NCAA Division I Edward Waters College NCAA Division II amp NAIA 134 blackcollegebaseball com 2012 135 unavailable NCAA Division I unavailable NCAA Division II amp NAIA blackcollegebaseball com 2013 2014 no champions selected 135 2015 Alabama State Large School Division 136 Winston Salem State Small School Division 137 blackcollegenines com 2016 Alabama State Large School Division 138 139 West Virginia State Small School Division 138 blackcollegenines com 2017 Bethune Cookman Large School Division Winston Salem State Small School Division 137 blackcollegenines com 2018 North Carolina A amp T Large School Division Albany State Small School Division 140 blackcollegenines com 2019 Southern Large School Division Winston Salem State Small School Division 141 blackcollegenines com Note Alcorn State St Augustine s and Stillman College are listed by a source as having been named black national champions by blackcollegebaseball com but the year s of the championships is not specified by the source 133 the year could be 2012 since champions were reportedly named that year 135 National championships by school edit School National championships Seasons Bethune Cookman 8 2002 2004 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2017 Southern 3 2003 2005 2019 Winston Salem State 3 2015 2017 2019 Alabama State 2 2015 2016 North Carolina A amp T 2 2005 2018 West Virginia State 2 2010 2016 Albany State 1 2018 Edward Waters College 1 2011 Prairie View A amp M 1 2006High school sports editMain article High school football national championship Because high school sports in the United States such as football and basketball are state centered sports involving thousands of schools it would be almost impossible to have a national championship playoff A single game playoff for football however was attempted in 1938 and 1939 it was particularly difficult at that time due to many states prohibition of postseason games Nearly all states crown several champions in different classifications which are not uniform from state to state based upon school enrollments Some publications and internet sites release nationwide rankings for high school sports based on polls or mathematical formulas which take into account various factors like average margin of victory and strength of schedule Schools that finish atop these rankings particularly the USA Today poll often claim to be national champions and the press calls them mythical national champions 142 National Football League editIn the earliest days of the National Football League the NFL championship was determined by a formula and by the votes of the NFL owners In three instances 1920 1921 and 1925 this led to disputed titles In 1932 two teams tied atop the standings led to a one game playoff for the championship which was made permanent the next year There has been some sort of NFL playoff ever since and as the league grew so too did the tournament which 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