National Championship game factoids

Submitted by BuddhaBlue on January 9th, 2024 at 7:24 PM

Since the BCS in 1998, there have been 26 national championship win-it-all finals.

  • Michigan is the 14th team to win a national championship since the BCS/Playoff format
  • Michigan and Washington were the 19th/20th teams to play for a natty
  • Michigan breaks the streak of SEC/Clemson champs and is the first non-such team to win in 9 years. OSU was the last. Only 3 other teams have even played in such games, all losers (OSU, TCU, UW)
  • Michigan is one of only 3 teams to be undefeated in the final (cheeky I know, the others are Tenn 1-0 and UF 2-0)
  • Michigan is in with 6 other teams to have played for only one 'ship. 6 teams have played in 2 finals, 6 teams have played for 3-5 championships. One has played in 9 of these games 🤯
  • Michigan is in a group with 6 others to have one championship. 7 teams have more than one. 6 teams have played for one but never reached the peak
  • In the past ten years, SEC+Clemson have gone 8-6 in the final, the rest of the ACC 0-0, PAC 0-2, Big XII 0-1, Big Ten 2-1
  • Noter Dame has never won a BCS/Playoff final and played in only one (2012) and were memorably blown out

Here is an ugly "visualization" of each year, grouped by conference. Most conclusions are rather sad, but it is interesting that the SEC barely got a sniff in the first third of the period.

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Duke of Zhou

January 10th, 2024 at 12:24 AM ^

Also, Edwards and Corum each rushed for 100+ yards and 2 touchdowns - a feat that had only been accomplished twice before in a CFP title game. 

Michigan became the first team in CFP title game history to have two rushers of over 100 yards. 

Michigan's 303 yards rushing was a CFP title game record and relegated OSU to #2. 

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lhglrkwg

January 10th, 2024 at 6:25 AM ^

I believe Washington's offense ran for like 2.5 ypc and passed for 5.0 ypa. That is a locker stuffing and the defense will never get enough credit for it because it never looks sexy when you just see a QB standing back in the pocket with ?? over his head as the pocket quickly collapses. They whooped em

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TruBluMich

January 9th, 2024 at 8:02 PM ^

I get that Nebraska is in the Big Ten now, but they were not in the Big Ten when they played in the BCS Title Game against Miami (who was still in the Big East along with Va Tech). That happened a decade before Nebraska joined the Big Ten.

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