1922: 4 Champions, Zero Agreement
SPLITMULTIPLEDISPUTEDThe National Championship Foundation names California and Princeton co-champions for 1922, while Helms credits Cornell alone and the CFRA backs Princeton alone.
The case for each side
9-0; co-national champion per the National Championship Foundation only, not by Helms (which named Cornell) or the CFRA (which named Princeton).
California’s 1922 schedule
Claimed by the program: no recognized selector picked them
7-0; not named by any of Helms, the National Championship Foundation, or the CFRA; credited only by Billingsley.
Iowa’s 1922 scheduleNo national title game was played after the 1922 season: before 1998 there was no mechanism to play one, which is why so many of these seasons were settled by vote instead.