Hoping my GNW post on Jefferson Davis Capture Site, don't get moved to politics Forum

[Top Row Dawg]

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I've been pulling out all the props on my last few GNW Post....

My Lewis Grizzard Books all signed. For Moreland Georgia.



And my Jefferson Davis Capture Site Pine Cones.

They have the best view of Midtown.


Oh, look there is one for each 4 National Championships.

[UncleJohnsDawg]

Great stuff Top Row Dawg. Hunker Down.

[Beatledawg]

TRD can you do any work on the 1942 National Championship? I find a bit of controversy of who became the '42 champ. I find that Georgia was proclaimed and then some sorta review selected another team ( I forget which one, USC, ND, OS, ....). Thought you may be able to determine what was happening and caused the controversy.

[ugafan49]

Thanks TRD, Right ON!!!!!

[Top Row Dawg]

We lost to Auburn and Ohio State was the AP National Champion. But they didn't play in a Bowl game while we did .

Wikipedia

The teams ranked highest in the final AP Poll in December 1942 were:

  1)  The Ohio State Buckeyes won the Big Ten championship and compiled an overall record of 9–1 record with the team's one loss coming against No. 3 Wisconsin. The Buckeyes ranked second nationally in scoring offense (33.7 points per game) and fourth in total offense (397.5 yards per game). They were ranked No. 1 in the final AP Poll but did not appear in a bowl game. Gene Fekete led the Big Ten with 910 rushing yards. Ohio State was selected as the national champion by the Associated Press (AP).

  2)  The Georgia Bulldogs won the SEC championship and had an overall record of 11–1, including a victory over UCLA in the 1943 Rose Bowl. The Bulldogs ranked first nationally with 429.5 yards of total offense per game and were voted second in the final AP Poll in December 1942, prior to the Rose Bowl. A majority of selectors (including Billingsley and Houlgate) later named the Bulldogs as the national champion.

  3)  The Wisconsin Badgers finished second in the Big Ten with an overall record of 8–1–1 record, including a 17–7 victory over eventual AP national champion Ohio State. They were ranked No. 3 in the final AP Poll. The Helms Athletic Foundation selected Wisconsin as 1942 national champions following the bowl games.

   4)  The Tulsa Golden Hurricane won the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) championship with a 10–1 record and was ranked No. 4 in the final AP Poll. They ranked first nationally in scoring offense (39.5 points per game) and passing offense (233.9 yards per game). Glenn Dobbs ranked fourth nationally with 1,427 yards of total offense.

   5)  The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets finished second in the SEC and compiled a 9–2 record, including a loss to Texas in the 1943 Cotton Bowl Classic. They were ranked No. 5 in the final AP Poll.

Frank Sinkwich of Georgia won the Heisman Trophy and led the nation with 2,187 yards of total offense (including 1,392 passing yards), making him the first major-college player to tally more than 2,000 yards in a season. Paul Governali of Columbia won the Maxwell Award. The year's other statistical leaders included Rudy Mobley of Hardin-Simmons with 1,281 rushing yards, Ray Evans of Kansas with 1,117 passing yards, Harding Miller of SMU with 531 receiving yards, and Bob Steuber of Missouri with 121 points scored.

With large numbers of college and professional football players serving in the armed forces, "service teams" competed against the college teams. The top-ranked service teams were Great Lakes Navy (No. 1), Iowa Pre-Flight (No. 2), and Georgia Pre-Flight (No. 3).

The AP poll, the College Football Researchers Association, the National Championship Foundation, and the Boand and Dunkel math systems all went with Ohio State.

The other 9 math-based systems all came up with Georgia. Berryman QPRS, Billingsley System, DeVold System, Houlgate System, Litkenhous, Poling System, Sagarin, Sagarin (ELO-Chess), Williamson System.

The University of Georgia wouldn’t officially claim the 1942 championship until the 1990s, when Athletic Director Vince Dooley initiated a review of the records from 1942 and decided that winning a consensus of the polls in use, as well as the historic polls, allowed Georgia to reasonably claim the national championship for that year.  So, though the 1942 team was not named as national champion in their own year, that title was retroactively claimed by UGA. The title for 1942 is still claimed outright by Ohio State.