9-0, Knute Rockne's last unbeaten team, playing an all-road schedule. Named champion by Billingsley, Boand, Dickinson, Dunkel, Football Research (CFRA), Helms, National Championship Foundation, and Poling, plus a co-champion nod from Sagarin (ELO-Chess).
Notre Dame’s 1929 schedule1929 National Champion: And Who Else Claims It
MULTIPLEDISPUTEDNotre Dame swept Helms, the National Championship Foundation, and the College Football Researchers Association; Pittsburgh's rival claim rests solely on contemporary sportswriter Parke Davis, a selector we don't carry picks for.
The case for each side
Claimed by the program: no recognized selector picked them
9-1. Named champion only by Parke Davis; not a Helms, NCF, or CFRA selection.
Pittsburgh’s 1929 scheduleNo national title game was played after the 1929 season: before 1998 there was no mechanism to play one, which is why so many of these seasons were settled by vote instead.