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1967 National Champion: And Who Else Claims It

MULTIPLEDISPUTED

USC, anchored by its regular-season win over UCLA, swept every major selector for a clean consensus title.

The case for each side

USC college football team logo

USC

10-1
Recognized byAPConsensusFWAARecognizedNFFRecognizedUPIConsensus· claimed by the program

10-1, beat Indiana in the Rose Bowl; consensus AP/UPI/FWAA/NFF national champion, with the only loss coming to Oregon State.

USC’s 1967 schedule
Claimed by the program: no recognized selector picked them

9-2 SEC champion school claim; not recognized by any of the four major selectors that year.

Tennessee’s 1967 schedule

No national title game was played after the 1967 season: before 1998 there was no mechanism to play one, which is why so many of these seasons were settled by vote instead.