National Championship Foundation

The National Championship Foundation (NCF) was established by Mike Riter of Hudson, New York. The NCF retroactively selected ^{[citation needed]} college football national champions for each year from 1869 to 1979,^[1] and its selections are among the historic national champions recognized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in its Football Bowl Subdivision record book.^[2]^[3]

Champions

The following list identifies the college football national champions as selected by the National Championship Foundation.^[4]

Season	Champion(s)	Record	Coach	Ref.
1869	Princeton	1–1		^[4]^: 118
1870	Princeton	1–0		^[4]^: 118
1871	None	No games played
1872	Princeton	1–0		^[4]^: 118
1873	Princeton	2–0		^[4]^: 118
1874	Yale	3–0		^[4]^: 118
1875	Harvard	4–0		^[4]^: 118
1876	Yale	3–0		^[4]^: 118
1877	Yale	3–0–1		^[4]^: 118
1878	Princeton	6–0		^[4]^: 118
1879	Princeton	4–0–1		^[4]^: 118
1880	Princeton Yale	4–0–1 4–0–1		^[4]^: 118
1881	Yale	5–0–1		^[4]^: 118
1882	Yale	8–0		^[4]^: 118
1883	Yale	9–0		^[4]^: 118
1884	Yale	8–0–1		^[4]^: 118
1885	Princeton	9–0		^[4]^: 118
1886	Yale	9–0–1		^[4]^: 118
1887	Yale	9–0		^[4]^: 118
1888	Yale	13–0	Walter Camp	^[4]^: 118
1889	Princeton	10–0		^[4]^: 118
1890	Harvard	11–0	George C. Adams, George A. Stewart	^[4]^: 118
1891	Yale	13–0	Walter Camp	^[4]^: 118
1892	Yale	13–0	Walter Camp	^[4]^: 118
1893	Princeton	11–0		^[4]^: 118
1894	Yale	16–0	William Rhodes	^[4]^: 118
1895	Penn	14–0	George Washington Woodruff	^[4]^: 118
1896	Lafayette Princeton	11–0–1 10–0–1	Parke H. Davis	^[4]^: 118
1897	Penn	15–0	George Washington Woodruff	^[4]^: 118
1898	Harvard	11–0	William Cameron Forbes	^[4]^: 118
1899	Harvard	10–0–1	Benjamin Dibblee	^[4]^: 119
1900	Yale	12–0	Malcolm McBride	^[4]^: 119
1901	Michigan	11–0	Fielding H. Yost	^[4]^: 119
1902	Michigan	11–0	Fielding H. Yost	^[4]^: 119
1903	Michigan Princeton	11–0–1 11–0	Fielding H. Yost Art Hillebrand	^[4]^: 119
1904	Michigan Penn	10–0 12–0	Fielding H. Yost Carl S. Williams	^[4]^: 119
1905	Chicago	10–0	Amos Alonzo Stagg	^[4]^: 119
1906	Princeton	9–0–1	William Roper	^[4]^: 119
1907	Yale	9–0–1	William F. Knox	^[4]^: 119
1908	LSU Penn	10–0 11–0–1	Edgar Wingard Sol Metzger	^[4]^: 119
1909	Yale	10–0	Howard Jones	^[4]^: 119
1910	Harvard Pittsburgh	8–0–1 9–0	Percy Haughton Joseph H. Thompson	^[4]^: 119
1911	Penn State Princeton	8–0–1 8–0–2	Bill Hollenback William Roper	^[4]^: 119
1912	Harvard Penn State	9–0 8–0	Percy Haughton Bill Hollenback	^[4]^: 119
1913	Harvard	9–0	Percy Haughton	^[4]^: 119
1914	Army	9–0	Charles Daly	^[4]^: 119
1915	Cornell	9–0	Albert Sharpe	^[4]^: 119
1916	Pittsburgh	8–0	Glenn "Pop" Warner	^[4]^: 119
1917	Georgia Tech	9–0	John Heisman	^[4]^: 119
1918	Michigan Pittsburgh	5–0 4–1	Fielding H. Yost Glenn "Pop" Warner	^[4]^: 119
1919	Harvard Notre Dame Texas A&M	9–0–1 9–0 10–0	Bob Fisher Knute Rockne Dana X. Bible	^[4]^: 119
1920	California	9–0	Andy Smith	^[4]^: 119
1921	Cornell	8–0	Gil Dobie	^[4]^: 119
1922	California Princeton	9–0 8–0	Andy Smith William Roper	^[4]^: 119
1923	Illinois Michigan	8–0 8–0	Robert Zuppke Fielding H. Yost	^[4]^: 119
1924	Notre Dame	10–0	Knute Rockne	^[4]^: 119
1925	Alabama	10–0	Wallace Wade	^[4]^: 119
1926	Alabama Stanford	9–0–1 10–0–1	Wallace Wade Glenn "Pop" Warner	^[4]^: 119
1927	Illinois	7–0–1	Robert Zuppke	^[4]^: 116
1928	Georgia Tech	10–0	William Alexander	^[4]^: 116
1929	Notre Dame	9–0	Knute Rockne	^[4]^: 116
1930	Notre Dame	10–0	Knute Rockne	^[4]^: 116
1931	USC	10–1	Howard Jones	^[4]^: 116
1932	USC	10–0	Howard Jones	^[4]^: 116
1933	Michigan	7–0–1	Harry Kipke	^[4]^: 116
1934	Minnesota	8–0	Bernie Bierman	^[4]^: 116
1935	Minnesota	8–0	Bernie Bierman	^[4]^: 116
1936	Minnesota	7–1	Bernie Bierman	^[4]^: 116
1937	Pittsburgh	9–0–1	Jock Sutherland	^[4]^: 116
1938	TCU	11–0	Dutch Meyer	^[4]^: 116
1939	Texas A&M	11–0	Homer Norton	^[4]^: 116
1940	Minnesota	8–0	Bernie Bierman	^[4]^: 116
1941	Minnesota	8–0	Bernie Bierman	^[4]^: 116
1942	Ohio State	9–1	Paul Brown	^[4]^: 116
1943	Notre Dame	9–1	Frank Leahy	^[4]^: 116
1944	Army Ohio State	9–0 9–0	Earl Blaik Carroll Widdoes	^[4]^: 116
1945	Alabama Army	10–0 9–0	Frank Thomas Earl Blaik	^[4]^: 116
1946	Notre Dame	8–0–1	Frank Leahy	^[4]^: 116
1947	Michigan	10–0	Fritz Crisler	^[4]^: 116
1948	Michigan	9–0	Bennie Oosterbaan	^[4]^: 116
1949	Notre Dame	10–0	Frank Leahy	^[4]^: 116
1950	Tennessee	11–1	Robert Neyland	^[4]^: 117
1951	Maryland	10–0	Jim Tatum	^[4]^: 117
1952	Michigan State	9–0	Biggie Munn	^[4]^: 117
1953	Notre Dame	9–0–1	Frank Leahy	^[4]^: 117
1954	Ohio State UCLA	10–0 9–0	Woody Hayes Henry Sanders	^[4]^: 117
1955	Oklahoma	11–0	Bud Wilkinson	^[4]^: 117
1956	Oklahoma	10–0	Bud Wilkinson	^[4]^: 117
1957	Auburn	10–0	Ralph Jordan	^[4]^: 117
1958	LSU	11–0	Paul Dietzel	^[4]^: 117
1959	Syracuse	11–0	Ben Schwartzwalder	^[4]^: 117
1960	Ole Miss	10–0–1	Johnny Vaught	^[4]^: 117
1961	Alabama	11–0	Paul "Bear" Bryant	^[4]^: 117
1962	USC	11–0	John McKay	^[4]^: 117
1963	Texas	11–0	Darrell Royal	^[4]^: 117
1964	Arkansas	11–0	Frank Broyles	^[4]^: 117
1965	Alabama	9–1–1	Paul "Bear" Bryant	^[4]^: 117
1966	Notre Dame	9–0–1	Ara Parseghian	^[4]^: 117
1967	USC	10–1	John McKay	^[4]^: 117
1968	Ohio State	10–0	Woody Hayes	^[4]^: 117
1969	Texas	11–0	Darrell Royal	^[4]^: 117
1970	Nebraska	11–0–1	Bob Devaney	^[4]^: 117
1971	Nebraska	13–0	Bob Devaney	^[4]^: 117
1972	USC	12–0	John McKay	^[4]^: 117
1973	Michigan Notre Dame Ohio State	10–0–1 11–0 10–0–1	Bo Schembechler Ara Parseghian Woody Hayes	^[4]^: 117
1974	Oklahoma USC	11–0 10–1–1	Barry Switzer John McKay	^[4]^: 118
1975	Arizona State Oklahoma	12–0 11–1	Frank Kush Barry Switzer	^[4]^: 118
1976	Pittsburgh	12–0	Johnny Majors	^[4]^: 118
1977	Notre Dame	11–1	Dan Devine	^[4]^: 118
1978	Alabama USC	11–1 12–1	Paul "Bear" Bryant John Robinson	^[4]^: 118
1979	Alabama	12–0	Paul "Bear" Bryant	^[4]^: 118
1980	Georgia	12–0	Vince Dooley	^[4]^: 118
1981	Clemson Nebraska Pittsburgh SMU Texas	12-0 9–3 11–1 10–1 10–1–1	Danny Ford Tom Osborne Jackie Sherrill Ron Meyer Fred Akers	^[4]^: 118
1982	Penn State	11–1	Joe Paterno	^[4]^: 118
1983	Miami (FL)	11–1	Howard Schnellenberger	^[4]^: 118
1984	BYU Washington	13–0 11–1	LaVell Edwards Don James	^[4]^: 118
1985	Oklahoma	11–1	Barry Switzer	^[4]^: 118
1986	Penn State	12–0	Joe Paterno	^[4]^: 118
1987	Miami (FL)	12–0	Jimmy Johnson	^[4]^: 118
1988	Notre Dame	12–0	Lou Holtz	^[4]^: 118
1989	Miami (FL)	11–1	Dennis Erickson	^[4]^: 118
1990	Colorado Georgia Tech	11–1–1 11–0–1	Bill McCartney Bobby Ross	^[4]^: 118
1991	Miami (FL) Washington	12–0 12–0	Dennis Erickson Don James	^[4]^: 118
1992	Alabama	13–0	Gene Stallings	^[4]^: 118
1993	Auburn Florida State Nebraska Notre Dame	11–0 12–1 11–1 11–1	Terry Bowden Bobby Bowden Tom Osborne Lou Holtz	^[4]^: 118
1994	Nebraska Penn State	13–0 12–0	Tom Osborne Joe Paterno	^[4]^{: 118–119}
1995	Nebraska	12–0	Tom Osborne	^[4]^: 119
1996	Florida	12–1	Steve Spurrier	^[4]^: 119
1997	Michigan Nebraska	12–0 13–0	Lloyd Carr Tom Osborne	^[4]^: 119
1998	Tennessee	13–0	Phillip Fulmer	^[4]^: 119
1999	Florida State	12–0	Bobby Bowden	^[4]^: 119
2000	Oklahoma	13–0	Bob Stoops	^[4]^: 119

References

^ Vautravers, James. "National Championship Foundation". Retrieved 2022-06-02. They retroactively selected national championships by member vote for every season through 1980, then named national champions every year thereafter through the year 2000. … More bothersome is the fact that for the 1901-1910 seasons, the NCF is easily the worst selector listed in the NCAA Records Book. They frequently select teams that have no business sharing the title, while dismissing truly powerful teams (such as Harvard 1901) completely. Their research for this time appears to be very shoddy, and probably in fact nonexistent. Conclusion: Not considered an authoritative selector.
^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. pp. 105–106. Retrieved January 3, 2016.
^ Christopher J. Walsh (2007). Who's #1?: 100-Plus Years of Controversial National Champions in College Football. Taylor Trade Publishing. p. 20. ISBN 978-1461734765.
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