1963 National Champion: And Who Else Claims It
MULTIPLEDISPUTEDTexas went undefeated wire-to-wire and swept every major selector for a clean consensus title.
The case for each side
Claimed by the program: no recognized selector picked them
School claim at the small-college/FCS level; not in contention for the major-selector national title that year.
Delaware’s 1963 scheduleNo national title game was played after the 1963 season: before 1998 there was no mechanism to play one, which is why so many of these seasons were settled by vote instead.