8-0, Big Ten champion, first of Bernie Bierman's back-to-back-to-back-to-back title teams. Named champion by Billingsley, Boand, Dickinson, Football Research (CFRA), Helms, Litkenhous, National Championship Foundation, Sagarin, and Sagarin (ELO-Chess).
Minnesota’s 1934 schedule1934 National Champion: And Who Else Claims It
MULTIPLEDISPUTEDMinnesota swept Helms, the National Championship Foundation, and the College Football Researchers Association under Bernie Bierman; Alabama's and Pittsburgh's rival claims rest on selectors we don't carry picks for.
The case for each side
Claimed by the program: no recognized selector picked them
10-0, won the Rose Bowl over Stanford. Named champion by Berryman, Dunkel, Houlgate, Poling, and Williamson; not a Helms, NCF, or CFRA selection.
Alabama’s 1934 schedule
Claimed by the program: no recognized selector picked them
8-1. Not listed among any of the major contemporary or retroactive selectors in the NCAA book's 1934 entry; the school's claim does not correspond to a documented selector pick.
Pittsburgh’s 1934 scheduleNo national title game was played after the 1934 season: before 1998 there was no mechanism to play one, which is why so many of these seasons were settled by vote instead.