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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 2150513, member: 289"]
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                                         [I]Indiana[/I]
1940-41                [B][I]Minnesota[/I]                                          [I]Wisconsin[/I][/B]
1941-42                [I]Minnesota[/I]                                          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                                           [I]Kentucky[/I]
1951-52                [I]Tennessee[/I]                                           Kansas
1952-53                [B]Michigan State                                 Indiana[/B]
1953-54                Maryland                                             LaSalle
1954-55                Ohio State/UCLA                              San Francisco
1955-56                Oklahoma                                           San Francisco
1956-57                Oklahoma                                           North Carolina
1957-58                [B]Auburn[/B]/Ohio State                         [B][I]Kentucky[/I][/B]
1958-59                [I]Louisiana State [/I]                                California
1959-60                Syracuse                                              [I]Ohio State[/I]
1960-61                [I]Minnesota[/I]                                          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                                       [I]UCLA[/I]
1967-68                [B]Southern California                        UCLA[/B]
1968-69                Ohio State                                           UCLA
1969-70                Texas                                                    UCLA
1970-71                Nebraska                                             UCLA
1971-72                Nebraska                                             [I]UCLA[/I]
1972-73                [B][I]Southern California[/I]                        UCLA         [/B]
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                                       [I]Kentucky[/I]
1978-79                [I]Alabama[/I]/Southern California    Michigan State
1979-80                Alabama                                              Louisville
1980-81                Georgia                                                                    Indiana
1981-82                [B]Clemson[/B]                                              [B]North Carolina[/B]
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/[B]Georgia Tech                 Duke[/B]
1991-92                U of Miami/Washington                                   Duke
1992-93                Alabama                                              [I]North Carolina[/I]
1993-94                [I]Florida State[/I]                                      Arkansas (FSU joined the ACC in 1991)
1994-95                Nebraska                                             UCLA
1995-96                Nebraska                                             [I]Kentucky[/I]
1996-97                [I]Florida  [/I]                                                Arizona
1997-98                Michigan/Nebraska                        [I]Kentucky[/I]
1998-99                [I]Tennessee[/I]                                          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                                                    [I]Florida[/I]
2006-07                [B][I]Florida[/I][/B]                                                 [B][I]Florida[/I][/B]
2007-08                [I]Louisiana State  [B]              [/B][/I][B]                 [/B] Kansas
2008-09                Florida                                                  North Carolina
2009-10                Alabama                                              Duke
2010-11                Auburn                                                 Connecticut
2011-12                [B]Alabama                                              [I]Kentucky[/I][/B]
2012-13                [I]Alabama[/I]                                             Louisville (They joined the ACC the next season)
2013-14                Florida State                                       Connecticut
2014-15                Ohio State                                           Duke
2015-16                Alabama                                              Villanova
2016-17                [B]Clemson                                              North Carolina[/B]

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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