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The ACC now owns both major crowns in college sports: Clemson beat Alabama for the football championship and North Carolina beat Gonzaga for the basketball title. People will say that that doesn’t matter- let’s just care about Syracuse. I don’t agree. I think your team’s reputation is tied to that of your conference. Otherwise, why be in a ‘power’ conference? It's about the "brand", right? The ACC needed a boost after their performance in the first week of the tournament and if we are a bubble team again next year it could impact us if the conference totally bombed out this year. Also, you are what you eat and your team is who they played. Everybody is always talking about resumes this time of year and that consisted of who you played as well as how you did against them. When the teams Syracuse played do well, we look better. If we beat them, great. If we lost to them the losses don’t seem too bad. I would have loved to have seen Gonzaga win their first tile last night and I think I would have preferred it to seeing UNC win #6, especially with the dark clouds over their program. But having the ACC get both titles and the fact that SU got to play both championship teams , (and will thus be able to measure themselves against them), is a good consolation prize for us.
I decided to see how many times the same conference has held both title. Here are the recognized national champions in both sports since the 1938-39 school year, the year the NCAA basketball tournament began. The football champions are those chosen by the writer’s poll, which had begun in 1936, the coach’s poll, which began in 1950, the BCS, which began in 1998 or the playoff, which began in 2014. That means there could be more than one “champion”. The basketball champion is the team that won the NCAA tournament, of which there will be one every year. (Aren’t tournaments wonderful?) When the same conference won both in a school year, both are in bold. If the same conference won the basketball title the previous spring and the football title in the fall, those champions are in italics. The first team(s) listed are the football champions, the second the basketball champion for that school year.
1938-39 Texas Christian Oregon
1939-40 Texas A&M Indiana
1940-41 Minnesota Wisconsin
1941-42 Minnesota Stanford
1942-43 Ohio State Wyoming
1943-44 Notre Dame Utah
1944-45 Army Oklahoma A&M (State)
1945-46 Army Oklahoma A&M (State)
1946-47 Notre Dame Holy Cross (a good year for the Catholics)
1947-48 Michigan/Notre Dame Kentucky
1948-49 Michigan Kentucky
1949-50 Notre Dame CCNY
1950-51 Oklahoma Kentucky
1951-52 Tennessee Kansas
1952-53 Michigan State Indiana
1953-54 Maryland LaSalle
1954-55 Ohio State/UCLA San Francisco
1955-56 Oklahoma San Francisco
1956-57 Oklahoma North Carolina
1957-58 Auburn/Ohio State Kentucky
1958-59 Louisiana State California
1959-60 Syracuse Ohio State
1960-61 Minnesota Cincinnati
1961-62 Alabama Cincinnati
1962-63 Southern California Loyola (Chicago)
1963-64 Texas UCLA
1964-65 Alabama UCLA
1965-66 Alabama/Michigan State Texas Western (UTEP)
1966-67 Notre Dame UCLA
1967-68 Southern California UCLA
1968-69 Ohio State UCLA
1969-70 Texas UCLA
1970-71 Nebraska UCLA
1971-72 Nebraska UCLA
1972-73 Southern California UCLA
1973-74 Notre Dame North Carolina State
1974-75 Oklahoma/Southern California UCLA
1975-76 Oklahoma Indiana
1976-77 Pittsburgh Marquette
1977-78 Notre Dame Kentucky
1978-79 Alabama/Southern California Michigan State
1979-80 Alabama Louisville
1980-81 Georgia Indiana
1981-82 Clemson North Carolina
1982-83 Penn State North Carolina State
1983-84 U of Miami Georgetown (Ugh!)
1984-85 Brigham Young Villanova
1985-86 Penn State Louisville
1986-87 Oklahoma Indiana
1987-88 U of Miami Kansas
1988-89 Notre Dame Michigan
1989-90 U of Miami UNLV (Double Ugh!)
1990-91 Colorado/Georgia Tech Duke
1991-92 U of Miami/Washington Duke
1992-93 Alabama North Carolina
1993-94 Florida State Arkansas (FSU joined the ACC in 1991)
1994-95 Nebraska UCLA
1995-96 Nebraska Kentucky
1996-97 Florida Arizona
1997-98 Michigan/Nebraska Kentucky
1998-99 Tennessee Connecticut
1999-2000 Florida State Michigan State
2000-01 Oklahoma Duke
2001-02 U of Miami Maryland (Miami was still in the Big East)
2002-03 Ohio State Syracuse
2003-04 Louisianan State/Southern California Connecticut
2004-05 Southern California North Carolina
2005-06 Texas Florida
2006-07 Florida Florida
2007-08 Louisiana State Kansas
2008-09 Florida North Carolina
2009-10 Alabama Duke
2010-11 Auburn Connecticut
2011-12 Alabama Kentucky
2012-13 Alabama Louisville (They joined the ACC the next season)
2013-14 Florida State Connecticut
2014-15 Ohio State Duke
2015-16 Alabama Villanova
2016-17 Clemson North Carolina
I count 10 times one conference has won both titles in the same school year and 12 times one conference won the basketball title in the spring and the football title in the fall, (let’s call that a calendar year, even though in recent decades the football title was actually won in the next calendar year). Here are the school year and calendar year double titles for the four conferences that have won them:
ACC 3 school year and 1 calendar year
Big 10 2 school year and 3 calendar year
PAC 8/10/12 2 school year and 1 calendar year
SEC 3 school year and 7 calendar year
The following schools have won both titles:
Ohio State football: 1942, 1954, 1957, 1968, 2002, 2014 basketball: 1960
Michigan football: 1947, 1948, 1997 basketball: 1989
Michigan State football: 1952, 1965 basketball: 1979, 2000
Maryland football: 1953 basketball: 2002
UCLA football: 1954 basketball: 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1995
Syracuse football: 1959 basketball: 2003
Florida football 1996, 2006, 2008 basketball 2006, 2007
Florida, of course, is the only school to win both titles in the same school year and also in the same calendar year, having won two basketball titles and a football title from 2006-2007.
I decided to see how many times the same conference has held both title. Here are the recognized national champions in both sports since the 1938-39 school year, the year the NCAA basketball tournament began. The football champions are those chosen by the writer’s poll, which had begun in 1936, the coach’s poll, which began in 1950, the BCS, which began in 1998 or the playoff, which began in 2014. That means there could be more than one “champion”. The basketball champion is the team that won the NCAA tournament, of which there will be one every year. (Aren’t tournaments wonderful?) When the same conference won both in a school year, both are in bold. If the same conference won the basketball title the previous spring and the football title in the fall, those champions are in italics. The first team(s) listed are the football champions, the second the basketball champion for that school year.
1938-39 Texas Christian Oregon
1939-40 Texas A&M Indiana
1940-41 Minnesota Wisconsin
1941-42 Minnesota Stanford
1942-43 Ohio State Wyoming
1943-44 Notre Dame Utah
1944-45 Army Oklahoma A&M (State)
1945-46 Army Oklahoma A&M (State)
1946-47 Notre Dame Holy Cross (a good year for the Catholics)
1947-48 Michigan/Notre Dame Kentucky
1948-49 Michigan Kentucky
1949-50 Notre Dame CCNY
1950-51 Oklahoma Kentucky
1951-52 Tennessee Kansas
1952-53 Michigan State Indiana
1953-54 Maryland LaSalle
1954-55 Ohio State/UCLA San Francisco
1955-56 Oklahoma San Francisco
1956-57 Oklahoma North Carolina
1957-58 Auburn/Ohio State Kentucky
1958-59 Louisiana State California
1959-60 Syracuse Ohio State
1960-61 Minnesota Cincinnati
1961-62 Alabama Cincinnati
1962-63 Southern California Loyola (Chicago)
1963-64 Texas UCLA
1964-65 Alabama UCLA
1965-66 Alabama/Michigan State Texas Western (UTEP)
1966-67 Notre Dame UCLA
1967-68 Southern California UCLA
1968-69 Ohio State UCLA
1969-70 Texas UCLA
1970-71 Nebraska UCLA
1971-72 Nebraska UCLA
1972-73 Southern California UCLA
1973-74 Notre Dame North Carolina State
1974-75 Oklahoma/Southern California UCLA
1975-76 Oklahoma Indiana
1976-77 Pittsburgh Marquette
1977-78 Notre Dame Kentucky
1978-79 Alabama/Southern California Michigan State
1979-80 Alabama Louisville
1980-81 Georgia Indiana
1981-82 Clemson North Carolina
1982-83 Penn State North Carolina State
1983-84 U of Miami Georgetown (Ugh!)
1984-85 Brigham Young Villanova
1985-86 Penn State Louisville
1986-87 Oklahoma Indiana
1987-88 U of Miami Kansas
1988-89 Notre Dame Michigan
1989-90 U of Miami UNLV (Double Ugh!)
1990-91 Colorado/Georgia Tech Duke
1991-92 U of Miami/Washington Duke
1992-93 Alabama North Carolina
1993-94 Florida State Arkansas (FSU joined the ACC in 1991)
1994-95 Nebraska UCLA
1995-96 Nebraska Kentucky
1996-97 Florida Arizona
1997-98 Michigan/Nebraska Kentucky
1998-99 Tennessee Connecticut
1999-2000 Florida State Michigan State
2000-01 Oklahoma Duke
2001-02 U of Miami Maryland (Miami was still in the Big East)
2002-03 Ohio State Syracuse
2003-04 Louisianan State/Southern California Connecticut
2004-05 Southern California North Carolina
2005-06 Texas Florida
2006-07 Florida Florida
2007-08 Louisiana State Kansas
2008-09 Florida North Carolina
2009-10 Alabama Duke
2010-11 Auburn Connecticut
2011-12 Alabama Kentucky
2012-13 Alabama Louisville (They joined the ACC the next season)
2013-14 Florida State Connecticut
2014-15 Ohio State Duke
2015-16 Alabama Villanova
2016-17 Clemson North Carolina
I count 10 times one conference has won both titles in the same school year and 12 times one conference won the basketball title in the spring and the football title in the fall, (let’s call that a calendar year, even though in recent decades the football title was actually won in the next calendar year). Here are the school year and calendar year double titles for the four conferences that have won them:
ACC 3 school year and 1 calendar year
Big 10 2 school year and 3 calendar year
PAC 8/10/12 2 school year and 1 calendar year
SEC 3 school year and 7 calendar year
The following schools have won both titles:
Ohio State football: 1942, 1954, 1957, 1968, 2002, 2014 basketball: 1960
Michigan football: 1947, 1948, 1997 basketball: 1989
Michigan State football: 1952, 1965 basketball: 1979, 2000
Maryland football: 1953 basketball: 2002
UCLA football: 1954 basketball: 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1995
Syracuse football: 1959 basketball: 2003
Florida football 1996, 2006, 2008 basketball 2006, 2007
Florida, of course, is the only school to win both titles in the same school year and also in the same calendar year, having won two basketball titles and a football title from 2006-2007.
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