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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 2151364, member: 289"]
Not so hard in football, since we didn't have title games until 1998. Florida state lost that won but won the next year. That's the only other time besides Clemson, (both ACC teams, of course).

In basketball:
North Carolina lost to Indiana in '81 and beat Georgetown in '82. 
Duke got blown out by UNLV in '90, came back to beat them in the semis the next year and then beat Kansas for the title. 
Kentucky lost to Arizona in '97 and beat Utah in '98. (They'd also beaten us for the crown in '96)

The following teams have lost one year and come back the next year, only to lose again:

Football:
Oklahoma in 2003-04
Ohio State in 2006-07

Basketball:
Ohio State in 1961-62, (but they'd won in 1960)
Houston in 1983-84
Michigan in 1992-93
Butler in 2010-11

Then there are the defending national champions  who got to the title game but failed to repeat.

Football:
Florida State in 2000, (they'd also lost in '98)
U of Miami in 2002
Southern California in 2005
Alabama in 2016

Basketball:
Kansas in 1953
LaSalle in 1955
California in 1960
Ohio State in 1961
Cincinnati in 1963
Georgetown in 1985
Arkansas in 1995
Kentucky in 1997
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