The College Football Championship

The College Football Championship
Author: Matt Doeden
Publisher: Millbrook Press
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2015-11-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 146778852X

In 2015, when Ohio State took on the University of Oregon in the first College Football Playoff championship game, millions of sports fans tuned in. But back in 1869, when Rutgers University and Princeton University played the first-ever college football game, no one predicted the national spectacle that a college football championship game would become. Author Matt Doeden takes readers on a journey from the disorganized games of the early years to the most recent playoffs to determine the best college team in the nation. Along the way, discover some of the most incredible moments, games, blunders, and statistics in the history of college football championships.

ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia

ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia
Author: Espn
Publisher: Espn Books
Total Pages: 1234
Release: 2009
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0345513924

A comprehensive reference provides historical overviews of all 335 Division 1 teams, season-by-season summaries, ESPN/Sagarin rankings of top-selected college basketball programs, and more.

Auburn's Unclaimed National Championships

Auburn's Unclaimed National Championships
Author: Michael C. Skotnicki
Publisher:
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2012-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9780615693682

Because major college football has never had a playoff system to produce a true champion, controversy has surrounded the issue of which team could be declared a National Champion, even as far back as the early years of the last century. The sports media and followers of college football filled that vacuum by creating polls and mathematical systems to name various teams as National Champions, even retroactively naming champions for college football's early years. Some colleges have seized every opportunity to glorify their football teams by claiming a National Championship for every year possible. An exception has been Auburn University, which has not done all it can to celebrate its success on the gridiron and officially claims a National Championship for only two seasons, 1957 and 2010. Auburn even declines to claim a National Championship for its undefeated 1913 team, although that squad is recognized as a National Champion in the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book. Auburn's Unclaimed National Championships seeks to alter this position of the Auburn University Athletic Department and is perhaps one of the most important books ever written about the Auburn University football program. Author Michael Skotnicki argues that until a playoff system is instituted by the NCAA to establish a true major college football National Champion, multiple teams can make a legitimate claim to a National Championship and the concept of a true single National Champion for any season is mythical. Skotnicki notes that many universities have claimed National Championships for seasons where they were not named such by the two most well-know selectors, the Associated Press and the Coaches Poll, with two universities even adding retroactive National Championship claims to past seasons as recently as this year (2012). This well-researched text brings needed attention to the entire history of Auburn football and makes the case for the position that in addition to the 1957 and 2010 National Championship seasons claimed by the Auburn Athletic Department, there are seven other seasons - 1910, 1913, 1914, 1958, 1983, 1993, and 2004 - for which Auburn should be recognized as a National Champion. Skotnicki, an appellate attorney, provides a history for each of these seasons, brings them to life, and makes the case for why Auburn's claim to recognition as a National Champion for each of those years is as strong or stronger than the teams accepted as national champions in those seasons. Skotnicki argues that in only claiming two National Championship seasons, Auburn University is forsaking much of its great football history, and that it should claim a total of nine National Championships.

Who's #1?

Who's #1?
Author: Christopher J. Walsh
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2007
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN:

Walsh takes a comprehensive view of over a century of controversy in America's college football national champions, breaking teams down into one of three categories: perennial powers, contenders, and former greats. He then details the ten most controversial championships, suggests candidates for the best overall football program, and concludes with some thoughts on the future of the BCS along with a complete appendix listing national champions since 1869.

NCAA Championships

NCAA Championships
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 570
Release: 1997
Genre: College sports
ISBN:

Official ... National Collegiate Championships records book.

In the Arena

In the Arena
Author: Joseph N. Crowley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2006
Genre: College sports
ISBN:

Pitch Perfect

Pitch Perfect
Author: Mickey Rapkin
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2008
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781592403769

Chronicles the competition between three contending groups for the Collegiate A Cappella championship, evaluating how their achievements reflect a rising surge in the music form's popularity, as well as the diversity that has shaped its expression.