NATIONAL CHAMPIONS |
Year |
Team |
Record |
Game |
Coach |
1883 |
Yale |
8-0-0 |
No bowl |
Ray Tompkins (Captain) |
1884
|
Yale
|
9-0-0
|
No bowl
|
Eugene L. Richards (Captain)
|
1885 |
Princeton |
9-0-0 |
No bowl |
Charles DeCamp (Captain) |
1886 |
Yale |
9-0-1 |
No bowl |
Robert N. Corwin (Captain) |
1887
|
Yale
|
9-0-0
|
No bowl
|
Harry W. Beecher (Captain)
|
1888 |
Yale |
13-0-0 |
No bowl |
Walter Camp |
1889 |
Princeton |
10-0-0 |
No bowl |
Edgar Poe (Captain) |
1890
|
Harvard
|
11-0-0
|
No bowl
|
George A. Stewart
George C. Adams |
1891 |
Yale |
13-0-0 |
No bowl |
Walter Camp |
1892 |
Yale |
13-0-0 |
No bowl |
Walter Camp |
1893 |
Princeton |
11-0-0 |
No bowl |
Tom Trenchard (Captain) |
1894 |
Yale |
16-0-0 |
No bowl |
William C. Rhodes |
1895 |
Pennsylvania |
14-0-0 |
No bowl |
George Woodruff |
1896 |
Princeton |
10-0-1 |
No bowl |
Garrett Cochran |
1897 |
Pennsylvania |
15-0-0 |
No bowl |
George Woodruff |
1898 |
Harvard |
11-0-0 |
No bowl |
W. Cameron Forbes |
1899 |
Harvard |
10-0-1 |
No bowl |
Benjamin H. Dibblee |
1900 |
Yale |
12-0-0 |
No bowl |
Malcolm McBride |
1901
|
Michigan
|
11-0-0
|
Rose: Beat Stanford 49-0
Season: Outscored opposition 550-0 |
Fielding Yost
|
1902 |
Michigan |
11-0-0 |
No bowl |
Fielding Yost |
1903 |
Princeton |
11-0-0 |
No bowl |
Hart Hillebrand |
1904 |
Pennsylvania |
12-0-0 |
No bowl |
Carl Williams |
1905 |
Chicago |
11-0-0 |
No bowl |
Amos Alonzo Stagg |
1906 |
Princeton |
9-0-1 |
No bowl |
Bill Roper |
1907 |
Yale |
9-0-1 |
No bowl |
Bill Knox |
1908 |
Pennsylvania |
11-0-1 |
No bowl |
Sol Metzger |
1909 |
Yale |
10-0-0 |
No bowl |
Howard Jones |
1910 |
Harvard |
8-0-1 |
No bowl |
Percy Houghton |
1911 |
Princeton |
8-0-2 |
No bowl |
Bill Roper |
1912 |
Harvard |
9-0-0 |
No bowl |
Percy Houghton |
1913 |
Harvard |
9-0-0 |
No bowl |
Percy Houghton |
1914 |
Army |
9-0-0 |
No bowl |
Charley Daly |
1915 |
Cornell |
9-0-0 |
No bowl |
Al Sharpe |
1916 |
Pittsburgh |
8-0-0 |
No bowl |
Glenn "Pop" Warner |
1917 |
Georgia Tech |
9-0-0 |
No bowl |
John Heisman |
1918 |
Pittsburgh |
4-1-0 |
No bowl |
Glenn "Pop" Warner |
1919 |
Harvard |
9-0-1 |
No bowl |
Bob Fisher |
1920 |
California |
9-0-0 |
No bowl |
Andy Smith |
1921 |
Cornell |
8-0-0 |
No bowl |
Gil Dobie |
1922 |
Cornell |
8-0-0 |
No bowl |
Gil Dobie |
1923 |
Illinois |
8-0-0 |
No bowl |
Bob Zuppke |
1924 |
Notre Dame |
10-0-0 |
Rose: Beat Stanford 27-10 |
Knute Rockne |
1925
|
Alabama (H)
Dartmouth (D) |
10-0-0
8-0-0 |
Rose: Beat Washington 20-19
No bowl |
Wallace Wade
Jesse Hawley |
1926
|
Alabama (H)
Stanford (H, D) |
9-0-1
10-0-1 |
Rose: Alabama and Stanford tied 7-7
|
Wallace Wade
Glenn "Pop" Warner |
1927 |
Illinois |
7-0-1 |
No bowl |
Bob Zuppke |
1928
|
Georgia Tech (H)
USC (D) |
10-0-0
9-0-1 |
Rose: Beat Cal 8-7
No bowl |
Bill Alexander
Howard Jones |
1929 |
Notre Dame |
9-0-0 |
No bowl |
Knute Rockne |
1930 |
Notre Dame |
10-0-0 |
No bowl |
Knute Rockne |
1931 |
USC |
10-1-0 |
Rose: Beat Tulane 21-12 |
Howard Jones |
1932
|
USC (H)
Michigan (D) |
10-0-0
8-0-0 |
Rose: Beat Pitt 35-0
No bowl |
Howard Jones
Harry Kipke |
1933 |
Michigan |
7-0-1 |
No bowl |
Harry Kipke |
1934 |
Minnesota |
8-0-0 |
No bowl |
Bernie Bierman |
1935
|
Minnesota (H)
SMU (D) |
8-0-0
12-1-0 |
No bowl
Bowl: Lost Stanford 7-0 |
Bernie Bierman
Matty Bell |
1936 |
Minnesota |
7-1-0 |
No bowl |
Bernie Bierman |
1937 |
Pittsburgh |
9-0-1 |
No bowl |
Jock Sutherland |
1938
|
TCU (AP)
Notre Dame (D) |
11-0-0
8-1-0 |
Sugar: Beat Carnegie Tech 15-7
No bowl |
Dutch Meyer
Elmer Layden |
1939
|
USC (D)
Texas A&M (AP) |
8-0-2
11-0-0 |
Rose: Beat Tennessee 14-0
Sugar: Beat Tulane 14-13 |
Howard Jones
Homer Norton |
1940 |
Minnesota |
8-0-0 |
No bowl |
Bernie Bierman |
1941 |
Minnesota |
8-0-0 |
No bowl |
Bernie Bierman |
1942 |
Ohio State |
9-1-0 |
No bowl |
Paul Brown |
1943 |
Notre Dame |
9-1-0 |
No bowl |
Frank Leahy |
1944 |
Army |
9-0-0 |
No bowl |
Red Blaik |
1945 |
Army |
9-0-0 |
No bowl |
Red Blaik |
1946 |
Notre Dame |
8-0-1 |
No bowl |
Frank Leahy |
*-1947
|
Notre Dame
Michigan |
9-0-0
10-0-0 |
No bowl
Rose: Beat USC 49-0 |
Frank Leahy
Fritz Crisler |
1948 |
Michigan |
9-0-0 |
No bowl |
Bennie Oosterbaan |
1949 |
Notre Dame |
10-0-0 |
No bowl |
Frank Leahy |
1950 |
Oklahoma |
10-1-0 |
Sugar: Lost Kentucky 13-0 |
Bud Wilkinson |
1951 |
Tennessee |
10-1-0 |
Sugar: Lost Maryland 28-13 |
Bob Neyland |
1952 |
Michigan State |
9-0-0 |
No bowl |
Biggie Munn |
1953 |
Maryland |
10-1-0 |
Orange: Lost Oklahoma 7-0 |
Jim Tatum |
1954
|
Ohio State (AP)
UCLA (UPI) |
10-0-0
9-0-0 |
Rose: Beat USC 20-7
No bowl |
Woody Hayes
Red Sanders |
1955 |
Oklahoma |
11-0-0 |
Orange: Beat Maryland 20-6 |
Bud Wilkinson |
1956 |
Oklahoma |
10-0-0 |
No bowl |
Bud Wilkinson |
1957
|
Auburn (AP)
Ohio State (UPI) |
10-0-0
9-1-0 |
No bowl
Rose: Beat Oregon 10-7 |
Shug Jordan
Woody Hayes |
1958 |
LSU |
11-0-0 |
Sugar: Beat Clemson 7-0 |
Paul Dietzel |
1959 |
Syracuse |
11-0-0 |
Cotton: Beat Texas 23-14 |
Ben Schwartzwalder |
1960 |
Minnesota |
8-2-0 |
Rose: Lost Washington 17-7 |
Murray Warmath |
1961 |
Alabama |
11-0-0 |
Sugar: Beat Arkansas 10-3 |
Bear Bryant |
1962 |
USC |
11-0-0 |
Rose: Beat Wisconsin 42-37 |
John McKay |
1963 |
Texas |
11-0-0 |
Cotton: Beat Navy 28-6 |
Darrell Royal |
1964 |
Alabama |
10-1-0 |
Orange: Lost Texas 21-17 |
Bear Bryant |
1965
|
Alabama (AP)
Michigan State (UPI) |
9-1-1
10-1-0 |
Orange: Beat Nebraska 39-28
Rose: Lost UCLA 14-12 |
Bear Bryant
Duffy Daugherty |
1966 |
Notre Dame |
9-0-1 |
No bowl |
Ara Parseghian |
1967 |
USC |
10-1-0 |
Rose: Beat Indiana 14-3 |
John McKay |
1968 |
Ohio State |
10-0-0 |
Rose: Beat USC 27-16 |
Woody Hayes |
1969
|
Texas
|
11-0-0
|
Cotton: Beat Notre Dame 21-17
|
Darrell Royal
|
1970
|
Nebraska (AP)
Texas (UPI)
|
11-0-1
10-1-0
|
Orange: Beat LSU 17-12
Cotton: Lost Notre Dame 24-11 |
Bob Devaney
Darrell Royal
|
1971 |
Nebraska |
13-0-0 |
Orange: Beat Alabama 38-6 |
Bob Devaney |
1972 |
USC |
12-0-0 |
Rose: Beat Ohio State 42-17 |
John McKay |
1973
|
Notre Dame (AP)
Alabama (UPI) |
11-0-0
11-1-0 |
Sugar: Beat Alabama 24-23
Sugar: Lost Notre Dame 24-23 |
Ara Parseghian
Bear Bryant |
1974
|
Oklahoma (AP)
USC (UPI) |
11-0-0
10-1-1 |
No bowl
Rose: Beat Ohio State 18-17 |
Barry Switzer
John McKay |
1975 |
Oklahoma |
11-1-0 |
Orange: Beat Michigan 14-6 |
Barry Switzer |
1976 |
Pittsburgh |
12-0-0 |
Sugar: Beat Georgia 27-3 |
Johnny Majors |
1977 |
Notre Dame |
11-1-0 |
Cotton: Beat Texas 38-10 |
Dan Devine |
1978
|
Alabama (AP)
USC (UPI) |
11-1-0
12-1-0 |
Sugar: Beat Penn State 14-7
Rose: Beat Michigan 17-10 |
Bear Bryant
John Robinson |
1979 |
Alabama |
12-0-0 |
Sugar: Baylor 30-2 |
Bear Bryant |
1980 |
Georgia |
12-0-0 |
Sugar: Beat Notre Dame 17-10 |
Vince Dooley |
1981 |
Clemson |
12-0-0 |
Orange: Beat Nebraska 22-15 |
Danny Ford |
1982 |
Penn State |
11-1-0 |
Sugar: Beat Georgia 27-23 |
Joe Paterno |
1983 |
Miami, Fla. |
11-1-0 |
Orange: Beat Nebraska 31-30 |
Howard Schnellenberger |
1984 |
Brigham Young |
13-0-0 |
Holiday: Beat Michigan 24-17 |
LaVell Edwards |
1985
|
Oklahoma
|
11-1-0
|
Orange: Beat Penn State 25-10 |
Barry Switzer
|
1986 |
Penn State |
12-0-0 |
Fiesta: Beat Miami 14-10 |
Joe Paterno |
1987 |
Miami, Fla. |
12-0-0 |
Orange: Beat Oklahoma 20-14 |
Jimmy Johnson |
1988
|
Notre Dame
|
12-0-0
|
Fiesta: Beat West Virginia 34-21 |
Lou Holtz
|
1989 |
Miami, Fla. |
11-1-0 |
Sugar: Beat Alabama 33-25 |
Dennis Erickson |
1990
|
Colorado (AP)
Georgia Tech (UPI) |
11-1-1
11-0-1 |
Orange: Beat Notre Dame 10-9
Citrus: Beat Nebraska 45-21 |
Bill McCartney
Bobby Ross |
1991
|
Miami, Fla. (AP)
Washington (Coaches) |
12-0-0
12-0-0
|
Orange: Beat Nebraska 22-0
Rose: Beat Michigan 34-14
|
Dennis Erickson
Don James
|
1992 |
Alabama |
13-0-0 |
Sugar: Beat Miami 34-13 |
Gene Stallings |
1993 |
Florida State |
12-1-0 |
Orange: Beat Nebraska 18-16 |
Bobby Bowden |
1994
|
Nebraska
|
13-0-0
|
Orange: Beat Miami, Fla. 24-17
|
Tom Osborne
|
1995 |
Nebraska |
12-0-0 |
Fiesta: Beat Florida 62-24 |
Tom Osborne |
1996 |
Florida |
12-1 |
Sugar: Beat Florida St. 52-20 |
Steve Spurrier |
1997
|
Michigan (AP)
Nebraska (Coaches)
|
12-0
13-0
|
Rose: Beat Wash. St. 21-16
Orange: Beat Tennessee
42-17 |
Lloyd Carr
Tom Osborne
|
1998 |
Tennessee |
13-0 |
Fiesta: Beat Florida St. 23-16 |
Phillip Fulmer |
1999 |
Florida State |
12-0 |
Sugar: Beat Va. Tech 46-29 |
Bobby Bowden |
2000 |
Oklahoma |
13-0 |
Orange: Beat Florida St. 13-2 |
Bob Stoops |
2001 |
Miami, Fla. |
12-0 |
Rose: Beat Nebraska 37-14 |
Larry Coker |
2002
|
Ohio State
|
14-0
|
Fiesta: Beat Miami, Fla.
31-24 (2 ot) |
Jim Tressel
|
2003
|
LSU (National Champs)
USC (#1 in AP Poll) |
13-1
12-1 |
Sugar: Beat Oklahoma 21-14
Rose: Beat Michigan 28-14 |
Nick Saban
Pete Carroll |
2004 |
USC |
13-0 |
Orange: Beat Oklahoma 55-19 |
Pete Carroll |
2005 |
Texas |
13-0 |
Rose: Beat USC 41-38 |
Mack Brown |
2006
|
Florida
|
13-1
|
BCS Championship Game:
Beat Ohio State 41-14 |
Urban Meyer
|
2007
|
LSU
|
12-2
|
BCS Championship Game:
Beat Ohio State 38-24 |
Les Miles
|
