How many NCs should NU claim?

[Nebfanatic]

I've said it before and I'll say it again. NC's are overrated. Just get W's. That's all you have control over. I realize the debate is what makes CFB special, and I realized their is a playoff now, but that just pushes the argument down two spots. On the other end of the spectrum NCAA BBALL has what? 68 spots? I doubt the best team rarely actually wins. It's just random at that point.

It's not random. Better teams have a better chance to get deeper in the tourney plain and simple. You do get your Cinderellas, but to say it's random is just simply not true

 

[Landlord]

Just the five from the major selectors. We have arguably the best claim to all of the five official titles we claim, and while we could claim others, there are better arguments for other teams than Nebraska. The stretch from 1980-1984 would be silly to claim titles from, for example. However, give us a playoff in those years and I'll bet Nebraska gets at least one title in that span. Lots of things change in a playoff. You get more film, players get banged up, etc.

I don't understand how anyone could have chosen Nebraska in 1983 or 1993. We lost both of those on the field. Those are no-brainers.

1993 was lost in the field of the referees bank account

Doesn't matter. Everyone has to deal with ref problems, and we didn't win.

 

[grandpasknee]

We should claim 8. The five we already have, and the next three we win in the next 10 years.

 

[skersfan]

Personally I am not worried about the past ones we won or didn't win. I worry about the future ones Coach Riley will rack up!

Okay I am stepping away from the ledge. We have what we have, nothing more, nothing less.

 

[AFhusker]

Good offseason fodder:

Been thinking about this since I saw the news last week that just Kentucky claimed the 1950 NC. It seems that a lot of schools "claim" NCs for years that are questionable, mainly in the SEC (looking at you Alabama), but others do as well (Ohio St and Texas both claim 1970).

So how many titles should NU claim? Just the 5?

Wiki says that we can claim 11 if we want:

1970, 1971

1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984

1993, 1994, 1995, 1997

It's too bad that we weren't at the top of our game in the 30s/40s/50s so we could go 9-1 and "claim" an NC.

Nebraska went

9-0 in 1902

10-0 in 1903

8-0 in 1913

7-0-1 in 1914

8-0 in 1915

And went undefeated in The team's very first season.. of course it was only a two game schedule in 1890.

So we could claim at least 17 if we were so inclined. But then we would be as pathetic as those schools that do claim titles like that. So lets not do that.

Mechicken is the worst at that. They claim something like 15 but they only have 1/3 of a title from 1997, the rest are claiming stuff from the WWII era when there were 12 magazines that all picked different big name schools as their champs. ND, Alabama are two others that do it. Personally I only count the MNC's since the polls started in 1969, if the AP or the UPI haven't picked a school, then they are just making sh#t up.

 

[AFhusker]

Just the five from the major selectors. We have arguably the best claim to all of the five official titles we claim, and while we could claim others, there are better arguments for other teams than Nebraska. The stretch from 1980-1984 would be silly to claim titles from, for example. However, give us a playoff in those years and I'll bet Nebraska gets at least one title in that span. Lots of things change in a playoff. You get more film, players get banged up, etc.

I don't understand how anyone could have chosen Nebraska in 1983 or 1993. We lost both of those on the field. Those are no-brainers.

1993 was lost in the field of the referees bank account

Doesn't matter. Everyone has to deal with ref problems, and we didn't win.

If Bennett could kick straight we still would have won.

 

[Count 'Bility]

Just the five from the major selectors. We have arguably the best claim to all of the five official titles we claim, and while we could claim others, there are better arguments for other teams than Nebraska. The stretch from 1980-1984 would be silly to claim titles from, for example. However, give us a playoff in those years and I'll bet Nebraska gets at least one title in that span. Lots of things change in a playoff. You get more film, players get banged up, etc.

I don't understand how anyone could have chosen Nebraska in 1983 or 1993. We lost both of those on the field. Those are no-brainers.

1993 was lost in the field of the referees bank account

Doesn't matter. Everyone has to deal with ref problems, and we didn't win.

If Bennett could kick straight we still would have won.

59 minutes and 59 seconds of football, and you deliberately put it on the kicker. The same kicker that made the winner 1 minute and 16 seconds earlier.