re: Last football national championship for each SEC team

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Agree, but I don't think Wild is a big proponent of those types of arguments. Lots of bigger fish to fry.

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While I've found him to be more reasonable than myself in demeanor here, it gets to me that in a topic so varied as national championship claims, that people can get a exact viewpoint just by posting a list. How many times in this thread alone has a list which contains no information at all on the respectability of a "title" been posted as if somehow it contains all the answers.

James Howell has all my respect as a researcher and I like his power index. In all my conversations with him, I've found nothing that would indicate he doesn't know his stuff. The same with Congrove. However, I know full well that they count for nothing in the scheme of "national titles". No school has ever claimed a title because one of these two guys as ever given them the title. Outside of their websites, they get little recognition. Comparing either, or both, to a title that went out on a syndicated wire in it's day smacks of ignorance to me.