Why hasn't LSU ever claimed the 1908 NCAA football championship?

Nobody cares about 1908.

Because we're not pathetic like Alabama.

Guess I just like the every 50 years symmetry

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recognized by the NCAA.

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No football title is recognized by the NCAA unless you are talking about fcs, div 2 and 3.

All you saying we're not Bama, you do realize 1908 is a legit title right? Bama gets most of the flack for shite like their 1941 claim,

Because we aren't like Alabama, self-conscious and desperate for other people to verify our greatness.

We know we are great and we don't need a banner from 1908 to prove anything.

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We were undefeated and recognized by the NCAA.

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No we are not recognized by the NCAA. The NCAA doesn't recognize championships for FBS football. We were selected for this championship retroactively by the National Championship Foundation.

But here's the problem: LSU claiming the 1908 National Championship would be like Boise State claiming the 2009 national championship. They went undefeated, but nobody in their right mind actually believes BSU could have beaten Alabama (or Texas, for that matter). Similarly, Penn and Harvard were football powerhouses in 1908 and LSU was a backwater school playing in a joke of league.

Here's a good read on the subject. LINK

Did the powers that be, at the time, consider this a national championship? The national media (were they even interested)? If not, they had their reasons. My view is that there are NCAA championships, then everything else. They should be kept separate. Just my opinion.

Because that was back before the NCAA was around to protect young student-athletes from being taken advantage of by unscrupulous professionals who wanted to pay them.

i have an lsu pennant from late fifties.
on the pennant it has:

national champions with a tiger and football.
below it has "1908 and 1958"