It's a big day for Oklahoma State football, for today is the day the Cowboys have won the 1945 national title. Pop open some old, flat bottles of champagne, Cowboys fans. As for how a team can be awarded a national title 71 years after the fact, the decision was made by the American Football Coaches Association. The AFCA put together a committee of coaches to retroactively select schools who deserve the Coaches Trophy between the seasons of 1922 and 1949. Schools who felt they had a legitimate bid for the title submitted their reasons why, and the committee would then hear their case and decide. Oklahoma State's case for its 1945 season was convincing enough. "After gathering all the pertinent information and doing our due diligence, it is the pleasure of our Blue Ribbon Commission of coaches to officially recognize Oklahoma State's 1945 championship season with the AFCA Coaches' Trophy," said AFCA executive director Todd Berry in a release announcing the decision. The Cowboys went 9-0 in 1945, finishing the season with a 33-13 win over St. Mary's in the Sugar Bowl. Unfortunately for Oklahoma State, it was one of a few teams to go undefeated in 1945. Army finished the season ranked No. 1 at 9-0, with 10-0 Alabama checking in at No. 2, a 7-1-1 Navy at No. 3 and 9-0-1 Indiana at No. 4. The Cowboys had to settle for No. 5. As if all this isn't enough, Oklahoma State is now the first school to win a national title in both football and basketball in the same season, as the school's basketball team won its second consecutive basketball title in 1945. Sorry, 2006 Florida. You're the second to do it now. http://www.cbssports.com/college-fo...med-college-footballs-1945-national-champion/
Congrats, Aggies. Are they also going to get a trophy for the 1951 team which viciously assaulted and broke the jaw of Drake's black All American running back? The Aggie administration and the redneck who assaulted Johnny Bright denied that incident for half a century. Do you suppose OU made a case for Bud's 1949 undefeated Sugar Bowl champions? The AP gave it to Notre Dame though they did not go to a bowl.
So another school is claiming 1945 now, are they? Used to be Army was the consensus #1 for that year. One poll gives it to Alabama but no one considered OK A&M, undefeated though they were, they were not impressive at all that year. Oklahoma A&M's best game this season was that 33-13 rout of #11 St. Mary's (6-2) in the Sugar Bowl. Their other big win was less impressive, 12-6 over #14 Tulsa (8-3) at home. Those were the only winning teams they played, and they struggled to get by 3-7 Arkansas 19-14. It is telling that even the rabid fans at Bama don't claim 1945 (of the 12 they do list), and they had a better season in terms of quality wins than the Pokes. I guess there is no chance of OSU refusing to recognize this nonsense for what it is and no doubt, will clear out a special place in the trophy cabinet for the gaudy hardware they are about to receive.
https://www.orangepower.com/threads/football-national-champions.221106/ Aggies celebrate their fake title! They claim OU fans are mad and "butt hurt." Yeah some of us have hurt sides from laughing so hard at the pathetic pokes and their phony retroactive title. Is this an Aggie thing? A&M likes to claim fake retroactive national titles and imaginary conference titles too. And oh yeah, the aggie cult contributed more officers during WWII than any other school . . . . . . Take that, you aggie haters!
The correct statistic is, more "officers" from A&M died in WWII than did officers from West Point, the implication being they were more fanatical about doing things like throwing themselves on a live grenade or charging head on at a machine gun nest.
Or as Trump would probably say, they were worse soldiers than West Point soldiers--he likes the ones that don't die or get captured.
How can anyone think that the Orange aggs would have beaten the '45 Army team featuring 2 Heisman winners in Blanchard and Davis?
