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Anyone keeping up with all that’s going on in college athletics knows the U.S. Senate is discussing and presumably debating the Protect College Sports Act. The proposed legislation attempts to bring some sanity in the form of regulations on name, image and likeness; the transfer portal; eligibility; and the ever-shifting landscape of college athletics.
Rick ClevelandMost, if not all, major conferences support the Protect College Sports Act. It’s not perfect, but it’s a start. University presidents and athletic directors clamor for legislation because the NCAA has failed its membership miserably. Still, nothing as yet has been resolved.
Ah, but the Senate did act on something Thursday, and you won’t believe what it was – or maybe, considering all the ways our legislators have failed us, you will. The Senate adopted by unanimous consent Senate Resolution 833, recognizing Missouri as one of the teams with a claim to the 1960 college football national championship. I am laughing through tears as I type.
If you can’t fix what’s wrong today, do something about something that happened 66 years ago, I guess.
You should know four other universities, including Ole Miss, already claim a version of the 1960 national title. Ole Miss finished 10-0-1 that year, beating Rice in the Sugar Bowl. The only blemish was a 6-6 tie with LSU. Those Rebels were voted No. 1 by the Football Writers Association of America, which was a pretty big deal back then.
Missouri finished the 1960 season with a 10-1 record, defeating Navy in the Orange Bowl. But Missouri was thrashed by Kansas 23-7 at Missouri in a late-season game. It was later determined that Kansas used an ineligible player in the game, therefore Missouri claims victory by forfeit. Never mind that the Tigers didn’t achieve a first down until late in the third quarter of the game.
Other claims to the 1960 title:
Minnesota, which finished 8-2, and still was recognized as national champion by both wire service polls, The Associated Press and United Press International. Iowa, which finished 8-1, losing only to Minnesota, and was recognized as No. 1 by Litkenhous Ratings. Washington, which finished 10-1 and defeated Minnesota in the Rose Bowl, was deemed the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation. The Huskies’ only loss was by one point to Navy.As you can see, none of the teams have a clear claim to the national championship, but Missouri was the only one the five that suffered a one-sided defeat – at home, no less. That didn’t deter current Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt, a Republican, who introduced and championed the resolution.
“More than six decades later, the 1960 Tigers embody the character of Missouri,” Schmitt said. “We are a people who work. We are a people who endure. We are people who keep our promises. The men of that team brought home a Big Eight Championship and the Orange Bowl championship game in a perfect season.”
Spoken like a true politician. No doubt, it will earn Schmitt some brownie points in the Show-Me State. Only, it wasn’t a perfect season, not even close. Kansas, which lost twice to other teams and by two touchdowns to Iowa, crushed Missouri at Missouri.
What the Senate achieved was adding one more team to the four that already claimed a disputed national championship. Again, Ole Miss claims two more of those. The 1959 Rebels finished 10-1 and avenged their only defeat that season, trouncing LSU 21-0 in the Sugar Bowl. The Rebels, for my money the best college football team in Mississippi history, out-scored opponents 329-21. Nevertheless, Syracuse (11-0 and winner over Texas in the Cotton Bowl) was No. 1 in both wire service polls and is widely considered the 1959 national champion. Perhaps Ole Miss was better, but we will never know. Syracuse did have a player, perhaps the greatest ever, named Jim Brown.
The 1962 Rebels, who finished 10-0 and beat Arkansas in the Sugar Bowl, were ranked No. 1 by Litkenhous Ratings. But Rose Bowl champion Southern Cal finished 11-0 and was ranked No. 1 in both major (AP and UPI) polls.
College football is all screwed up these days. Teams now travel across three time zones to play conference games. Players transfer willy-nilly from school to school, based on how many hundreds of thousands of dollars (sometimes millions) the next school will pay. So now seems a good time to remind every one that college football at least does one thing right in 2026.
That is, the national championship is now decided on the field – not by wire service polls, not by various fly-by-night rating services and certainly not by the U.S. Senate.
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