College Football history made with 2013 season

[liberal N proud]

Why? Because even that array of excellence was an outlier. At no time previously had college football come so close to championship perfection; indeed, only in 1982, when the the champions of Divisions I-AA, II, and III (Eastern Kentucky, Southwest Texas State, and West Georgia) had all gone unbeaten had there even been the credible threat.

Welcome to 2013, and history. Florida State finished 14-0 to claim the BCS Trophy. North Dakota State captured their third straight Division I Football Championship, running the table to finish 15-0. Northwest Missouri State also rolled to a 15-0 record to claim the Division II title, while 15-0 Wisconsin-Whitewater vanquished their eternal nemesis to win their fifth Stagg Bowl in seven years. And in the NAIA, Grand View secured their first-ever national championship to cap off a perfect 14-0 season.

Five teams. Seventy-three wins. Not a loss between them. It had never happened before in the history of the greatest game on turf, but we can now hold 2013 up as the year the worth of every single national champion was utterly indisputable.

http://www.bringonthecats.com/2014/1/7/5284096/2013-college-football-history-achieved-five-champions-unbeaten-first-time-ever

Proud to be an alumni from one of those teams, Northwest Missouri State University.

[Eleanors38]

1. Also notable, a state of Florida team has won nearly a third

of the consensus national champs since 1980 (Div. 1). The state has become a permanent power house only in modern times.