9-1; AP's final poll (released November 30, 1942, before bowls) named the Buckeyes champion by fewer than 100 points over Georgia.
Ohio State’s 1942 schedule1942 National Champion: And Who Else Claims It
MULTIPLEDISPUTEDOhio State edged Georgia in the AP's final poll, released before bowl season; Georgia's rival claim comes from six other contemporary math systems that ranked the Bulldogs first instead.
The case for each side
Claimed by the program: no recognized selector picked them
11-1, SEC champion, beat UCLA in the 1943 Rose Bowl; named champion ahead of the bowls by the Berryman, DeVold, Houlgate, Poling, Litkenhous, and Williamson systems.
Georgia’s 1942 scheduleNo national title game was played after the 1942 season: before 1998 there was no mechanism to play one, which is why so many of these seasons were settled by vote instead.