1986 National Champions

Champion

Penn State

12-0

Recognized byAPConsensusFWAARecognizedNFFRecognizedUPIConsensusUSA/CNNConsensus· claimed by the program

Penn State’s 1986 schedule

No national title game was played after the 1986 season: before 1998 there was no mechanism to play one, which is why so many of these seasons were settled by vote instead.