1993 National Champion: And Who Else Claims It

MULTIPLEDISPUTED

Florida State beat Nebraska in the Orange Bowl for the program's first national championship and was the consensus pick of every major selector.

The case for each side

Florida State

12-1

Recognized byAPConsensusFWAARecognizedNFFRecognizedUPIConsensusUSA/CNNConsensus· claimed by the program

12-1, beat Nebraska in the Orange Bowl; consensus national champion by AP, FWAA, UPI, USA Today/CNN, and NFF.

Florida State’s 1993 schedule

Auburn

11-0

Claimed by the program: no recognized selector picked them

The school claims the title; Auburn went undefeated but was on NCAA probation and ineligible for bowls and polls, so it received no major-selector recognition this season.

Auburn’s 1993 schedule

No national title game was played after the 1993 season: before 1998 there was no mechanism to play one, which is why so many of these seasons were settled by vote instead.