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 Navy in the Cotton Bowl; consensus AP/UPI/FWAA/NFF national champion.
Texas’s 1963 schedule 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 schedule No 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.
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1963 College Football National Championship: Texas or Delaware? - Winsipedia
