11-0, AP and UPI national champion.
LSU’s 1958 schedule1958: 3 Champions, Zero Agreement
SPLITMULTIPLEDISPUTEDLSU went 11-0 and swept the AP and UPI polls, but the FWAA gave its Grantland Rice Award to Iowa after the bowl season.
The case for each side
FWAA (Grantland Rice Award) national champion; not named champion by AP or UPI.
Iowa’s 1958 schedule
Claimed by the program: no recognized selector picked them
9-0-1, on probation and ineligible for a bowl game; not named champion by AP, UPI, or FWAA.
Auburn’s 1958 scheduleNo national title game was played after the 1958 season: before 1998 there was no mechanism to play one, which is why so many of these seasons were settled by vote instead.