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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 2848393, member: 289"] Auburn in 2004 won their bowl game and everybody said, "Well it wasn't the national championship game so they can't national champion." We were never ranked in the top 3 all season when we won the basketball crown but we were the legitimate champion because we won the tournament. The important thing is to have all the teams in the tournament that, by the standards we have established over the years for what a national champion is to be in the tournaments. And for everyone in a division to have a shot at the championship if they keep beating the team in front of them. We are still well shot of that, as I have demonstrated in this and my subsequent post on this subject. [URL="https://syracusefan.com/threads/what-it-might-have-looked-like-with-16-teams.138714/"]What it might have looked like with 16 teams[/URL] [/QUOTE]