1913 National Champion: And Who Else Claims It
DISPUTEDHarvard (9-0) sweeps the major retroactive selectors for 1913, while Auburn's unbeaten season draws only a secondary rating system's nod.
The case for each side
Claimed by the program: no recognized selector picked them
8-0-0, undefeated and untied; claims a national championship on that record, but neither Helms nor the National Championship Foundation named Auburn; only the secondary Billingsley MOV system did.
Auburn’s 1913 scheduleNo national title game was played after the 1913 season: before 1998 there was no mechanism to play one, which is why so many of these seasons were settled by vote instead.