USC has offense, schedule to pull off unprecedented feat
Jake Curtis, Chronicle Staff Writer
Thursday, September 1, 2005
Like many football lifers, USC coach Pete Carroll was surprised to learn a few weeks ago that no college team had won three straight national championships.
"Didn't Oklahoma win a lot of games in a row way back?" he said.
Indeed, the Sooners won a record 47 straight in the mid-1950s. Frank Leahy went unbeaten four consecutive seasons while coaching Notre Dame in the '40s. Army didn't lose a game in the three years Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis shared the backfield.
Yet none of those teams won three consecutive national titles, which is what USC is trying to do this year. Well, technically, it has been done before. Minnesota won three in a row from 1934 through 1936, but the '34 and '35 titles were bestowed upon the Gophers by a variety of organizations that named national champions in those days.
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