NCAA Football National Champions

The NCAA Football National Championship Trophy is among the most coveted awards in the college sports world. Many schools have never won it, but that doesn’t mean they haven’t tried. There have been many of these trophies given out over the years, but a few teams have been able to dominate and win more titles than anyone else.

Since the advent of the Bowl Championship Series, which employs a mixture of computer and human polls to determine the No. 1 and 2 teams at the end of the regular season, the process has been a bit more orderly. That doesn’t mean fans aren’t every bit as passionate – and argumentative – concerning whether their team got a fair deal or not.

Here’s the list of all the National Champions since 1970:

Bowl Championship Series Era
2007 LSU
2006 Florida
2005 Texas
2004 USC
2003 LSU (BCS Champions, USC (#1 in AP Poll)
2002 Ohio State
2001 Miami, Fla.
2000 Oklahoma
1999 Florida State
1998 Tennessee

Pre-BCS
1997 Michigan (AP), Nebraska (Coaches)
1996 Florida
1995 Nebraska
1994 Nebraska
1993 Florida State
1992 Alabama
1991 Miami, Fla. (AP), Washington (Coaches)
1990 Colorado (AP), Georgia Tech (UPI)
1989 Miami, Fla.
1988 Notre Dame
1987 Miami, Fla.
1986 Penn State
1985 Oklahoma
1984 Brigham Young
1983 Miami, Fla.
1982 Penn State
1981 Clemson
1980 Georgia
1979 Alabama
1978 Alabama (AP), USC (UPI)
1977 Notre Dame
1976 Pittsburgh
1975 Oklahoma
1974 Oklahoma (AP), USC (UPI)
1973 Notre Dame (AP), Alabama (UPI)
1972 USC
1971 Nebraska
1970 Nebraska (AP), Texas (UPI)

Source: NCAA.com