Talk:1993 Auburn Tigers football team

WikiProject class rating
This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot (talk) 17:54, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Stop claiming the national championship.
Florida State was the consensus national champion. The NCAA's official site (http://www.ncaa.com/history/football/fbs) lists split championships, and Auburn is nowhere to be found in 1993. There is no substantiation for this claim and Auburn was ineligible for the postseason. The same exact thing happened to Ohio State in 2012, but they don't have the audacity to claim the national championship for that year because they were under sanctions. Even if you compare like opponents (Florida), which isn't a great metric, FSU beat UF in Gainesville by 12, whereas Auburn squeaked out a 3-point win at home. FSU played 2 top 3 teams and won their bowl game. Auburn didn't. We might as well start giving Utah and Boise State national titles while we're at it, although those teams would actually have better claims since they played in the postseason and weren't on Santa's naughty list. This seems like a Little Brother Syndrome issue with Alabama. 71.203.110.138 (talk) 02:39, 17 May 2014 (UTC)

Auburn University doesn't claim the championship for this season. The school only recognizes championships awarded by the Associated Press Poll, in 1957 and in 2010 (see http://www.auburntigers.com/trads/02_auburn_national_championships.html). However, the athletics page does list the 1993 team being awarded a national championship by the National Championship Foundation (see http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/aub/sports/m-footbl/auto_pdf/2013-14/misc_non_event/20140421_ncaa_champions.pdf). This is mentioned on the football page (see http://www.auburntigers.com/sports/m-footbl/aub-m-footbl-body.html) but on the page dedicated to Auburn National Championships, the school itself only claims 1957 and 2010.Tjackson1986 (talk) 02:31, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
 * The NCF gave it to no less than FOUR teams that year. It's a ridiculous "selector." You might as well say Alabama won the national championship last season because I'm sure there are several people who view them as the best team last season. It's a fraud. And the site has 1993 among others under "Champions." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.203.110.138 (talk) 06:03, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

Which is why Auburn doesn't recognize it. 1957 and 2010 are the only seasons they recognize. The 1993 season is listed as a season in which a selector picked Auburn as champions, but Auburn doesn't recognize it because it wasn't the AP and it's not the consensus. No one is trying to argue this, stop pretending they are. This is all repeating what was said earlier, and now the page reflects exactly what the Auburn Athletics site claims. The listing of 1993 on the "champions" page is only stating that a selector voted them champions that year, meanwhile the "national championships" takes precedence and only lists 1957 and 2010.Tjackson1986 (talk) 13:40, 20 May 2014 (UTC)