Utah and Oregon were awarded national championships by a few organizations over the past three years. It is what it is. Somehow, Oregon is considered a co-champion last year by Rothman (FACT). And they use mathematics to identify who's the champion.Fair enough. But the National Championship Foundation also recognized Clemson, Nebraska, Pittsburgh, and Texas that year.
And the Helms foundation was the only major organization to recognize SMU the second one. Penn State, by contrast, was recognized by:AP, Billingsley, DeVold, Dunkel, FACT, FB News, Football Research, FW, Helms, Litkenhous, Matthews, National Championship Foundation, NFF, NY Times, Poling, Sagarin, Sporting News, UPI, USA/CNN