7-0-1, Big Ten champion (the "Hurry Up" Illini). Named champion by Billingsley, Dickinson, Helms, and the National Championship Foundation, plus contemporary sportswriter Parke Davis.
Illinois’s 1927 schedule1927: 3 Champions, Zero Agreement
SPLITMULTIPLEDISPUTEDIllinois was the Helms and National Championship Foundation pick; Yale's only major-selector nod came retroactively from the College Football Researchers Association, not from Helms or the National Championship Foundation.
The case for each side
Recognized byCFRARetroactive
7-1. Named champion only by the College Football Researchers Association's retroactive Football Research poll; not a Helms or NCF selection.
Yale’s 1927 schedule
Claimed by the program: no recognized selector picked them
8-0-1 and Southwest Conference champion. The school's claim rests on later computer rankings (Sagarin, Sagarin ELO-Chess), not on Helms, the National Championship Foundation, or the CFRA.
Texas A&M’s 1927 scheduleNo national title game was played after the 1927 season: before 1998 there was no mechanism to play one, which is why so many of these seasons were settled by vote instead.