national championship

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The Indiana Hoosiers won a football national championship!

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

After Wednesday's result, the team need to win just one more game to win the national championship for the first time since 1973.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

The Crimson Tide went through seven different coaches over the next 27 years, winning only one national championship, before Coach Nick Saban restored its place as the dominant college football team in 2009.

From Barron's • Apr. 20, 2026

Betts averaged 17.1 points per game, 8.8 rebounds and shot 58.2% from the field as a senior in the Bruins’ national championship run.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

But Harvard and Yale did not row in any kind of intercollegiate championship regatta beyond their own annual match, and there was no semblance of a national championship event until 1895.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown