[borna'horn]

To my eyes, that is totally bogus.

In neither 1961 nor 1970 did you finish #1 in either of the polls. Furthermore, the AP national champion in both those years had a better record than you. ('61 Alabama went 11-0 to your 9-0-1, '70 Nebraska went 11-0-1 to your 10-1)

The only case where a team has a legitimate argument for being called a national champion despite not being #1 in either poll is when that team clearly would have been named #1 if the polls would have been taken after the bowl games. (clear example: Arkansas went undefeated and won its bowl game in 1964, while "national champion" Alabama lost in the Orange Bowl to a team Arkansas beat)

Otherwise, any team can claim a bogus national championship based on somebody's computer formula. Texas has been called the national champion based on computer formulas in 1914, 1941, 1947, 1961, 1968, 1977, and 1981, in addition to the three from the major polls. So that gives us ten national championships to your seven, right?

Wrong.

We have three, and you have five. Face reality, and reprint those t-shirts.