Talk:1945 college football season

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--JeffGBot (talk) 16:33, 4 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

All major selectors in 1945 (AP, Boand, Devold, Dunkel, Helms, Houlgate, Litkenhous, Poling, Williamson) named Army #1

For any given college football season in the AP-Poll era, the national champion listed in the college football season infobox is the team(s) that was contemporaneously selected at the end of the season. By any yardstick, Army was the overwhelming consensus selection for the 1945 title. All nine major selectors that existed in 1945 (AP, Boand, Devold, Dunkel, Helms, Houlgate, Litkenhous, Poling, Williamson) selected Army. Unanimous consensus happened in 1945; it cannot then un-happen (especially not 71 years later and especially not by self-selection, as Oklahoma State did in 2016). There was no vote in 2016 by the AFCA membership; the AFCA essentially began passing out candy upon request. According to the AFCA under its program, any school with a spider-thread claim between 1922 and 1949 can apply and receive an AFCA trophy.

Reality: There was never any contemporary doubt about the national champion in 1945, especially with the overwhelming superiority demonstrated by one team, Army, which has been called the greatest college football team of all-time. Jeff in CA (talk) 05:53, 24 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Again, deleting and suppressing quotes from the AFCA itself in order to push an opinion article with unsourced claims that support your personal opinion is bad faith editing and edit warring. An AFCA quote explaining why a national championship was given to Oklahoma A&M should not be repeatedly suppressed due to it not supporting your personal opinion. 72.214.239.30 (talk) 21:08, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Furthermore, you continue to edit war on the premise that "reliable sources" are being removed, yet the "reliable source" is an opinion piece that is factually inaccurate (as TCU and Texas A&M have both claimed retroactive AFCA national titles), unreliable as none of the claims made in the article or sourced or proven as factual, and biased, as again, it's based on one's point of view, versus the facts.

Its perfectly acceptable to not agree with someone else, it's pretty unacceptable to continue to delete relevant information and quotes because it doesnt fit your opinion, while pretendimg that a fsctually incorrect, biased opinion article is "a reliable source". Ridiculous. 2600:8804:586:3D00:DCFD:7E33:7508:D7EE (talk) 22:30, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]