By Year By Team By Selector Explore Wire Service Era · 1950–1997 AP writers and UPI coaches voted, sometimes for different teams. Split titles were routine and nobody played a game to break the tie.
The case for each side Recognized by AP Consensus FWAA Recognized NFF Recognized UPI Consensus · claimed by the program 11-0, beat Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl; consensus AP/UPI/FWAA/NFF national champion.
USC’s 1962 schedule Claimed by the program: no recognized selector picked them
10-0 school claim; finished the season unbeaten but was not recognized by any of the four major selectors that year.
Ole Miss’s 1962 schedule No national title game was played after the 1962 season: before 1998 there was no mechanism to play one, which is why so many of these seasons were settled by vote instead.
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1962 College Football National Championship: USC or Ole Miss? - Winsipedia
