Nebraska's first national championship in 1970 was split with Texas.Ĭornhusker defensive tackle Jason Peter was less sharing than Frost. The title had been split nine times previously since the coaches poll was established in 1950, most recently in 19. It should be split."įrost was well-versed on national championship history. "I can't see how any coach outside of the Big Ten or Pac-10 would vote for Michigan because if somebody from North Carolina, Florida State, wherever it might be, Notre Dame, coaches from there, if they were undefeated and won the Alliance bowl game, they would expect to share the national title," the senior from Wood River, Neb., said on the field, in front of CBS television cameras. That was Cornhusker quarterback Scott Frost's point immediately after t he decisive victory against Tennessee. The split title seemed a reasonable solution. 1 team had ever won its bowl game and been dropped from the top. On the other hand, Michigan argued, no No. No major college football team has gone 13-0 and been deprived of a national title. "They probably lookedĪt the fact we were 13-0, and to be unrewarded in some way would be. 1997 Season in Reviewīeing a coach, I know a little bit how they think," said Osborne, who was among those with a vote in the USA Today/ESPN poll.
The Wolverines retained the top spot in the AP poll. 2 going into the Orange Bowl game, had squeezed ahead of Michigan in the coaches poll on the strength of a 42-17 victory against No. The source of his pleasure had been the announcement on ESPN - the television set in his room at the Sheraton Bal Harbour on Miami Beach had been tuned to the network "by chance," he said - that his 25th and final team had been voted the USA Today/ESPN Coaches national champion. "Naturally, I was very pleased, very gratified," he said. His response to the news was typically low-key. 3, 1998, when he heard the news.īy that time, I was wrung out enough that there wasn't much emotion left," he would say later that morning during a post-Orange Bowl game news conference.> NEBRASKA'S 1997 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP TEAMĪ pajama-clad Tom Osborne was packing for home in the early morning hours of Jan.
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