10-0, won the 1929 Rose Bowl over California (the Roy Riegels "wrong-way run" game). Named champion by Berryman, Billingsley, Boand, Football Research (CFRA), Helms, Houlgate, National Championship Foundation, and Poling, plus co-champion status from Parke Davis and Sagarin (ELO-Chess), shared with Detroit.
Georgia Tech’s 1928 schedule1928 National Champion: And Who Else Claims It
MULTIPLEDISPUTEDGeorgia Tech swept Helms, the National Championship Foundation, and the College Football Researchers Association after its Rose Bowl win; USC's rival claim rests on the Dickinson System, a selector we don't carry picks for.
The case for each side
Claimed by the program: no recognized selector picked them
9-0-1. Named champion by the Dickinson System and Sagarin's retroactive ranking; not a Helms, NCF, or CFRA selection.
USC’s 1928 scheduleNo national title game was played after the 1928 season: before 1998 there was no mechanism to play one, which is why so many of these seasons were settled by vote instead.