re: 1908 National Champions

LSU could legitimately claim it if it wanted to.

Pretty much all titles before 1936 are retroactive. There was no such thing as the concept of "national champion" in the early days.

Hell, before 1906 the rules weren't even standardized, differnet areas of the country and different schools played with different rules.

Basically the older you go back, the harder it is to really see who was the best team that year, so it's not uncommon to have split claims and nobody would really dispute it.

FYI, the oldest title Bama claims is from 1925, a team that went 10-0 and won the Rose Bowl, so ya.

There's only one BS title Alabama claims and that's 1941, it's the only post 1936 title they claim not awarded by one of the major polls (AP or Coahes).

Keep telling yourself whatever you want, no matter how you count the titles Alabama either has the most or is tied with Notre Dame for the most. Of the 14 Alabama claims 13 of them are acknowledged consensusly, with only the bogus 1941 claim not being so.