Factoid #5 - 1950 - Four teams win the NCAA football championship?

The Oklahoma Sooners were the decided favorite and outright consensus national champion after the end of the regular season, having gone 9-0-0. However, they were upset then in Sugar Bowl by the 10-1-0 Kentucky Wildcats. (The Wildcats were coached by that upstart Bear Bryant, who coached eight years for the Wildcats, a few years for Texas A&M, but then went to Alabama where he became a legend.)

Some of the polls in 1950 did not vote after the regular season. Because of this, it was a particularly sloppy year in NCAA Football history: four different teams claimed 15 different titles. The four teams were the University of Kentucky Wildcats, the Oklahoma Sooners, Princeton Tigers, and the Tennessee Volunteers. Needless to say this was a mess and inconsiderate of the fans!

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