College national championships at the highest level in the sport

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Mississippi State won its first ever national title last night, in baseball.

Interesting facts:
- there are plenty current P5 schools that have never won a football national title at the highest level (in the various forms that has taken since 1869)
- Pittsburgh is the only P5 school that has national titles in football at the highest (last was 1976), but no titles in any other sport
- there are two remaining schools in P5 that have never won a national title at the highest level in any sport: Kansas State and Virginia Tech (though arguably "runner up" in the 1999 football season).

 

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Pretty awesome how Minnesota has national titles in all of the big four sports. Yes some happened a way back but still, nice having all of those banners.

 

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One thing to keep in mind: Rutgers is credited with a national championship at the highest level in football .... from 1869.

Looking more closely at that, there were only two games played the whole year, both Princeton vs Rutgers with Rutgers winning the initial game and then losing a rematch a week later. So I have no idea how Rutgers gets credit for that. Maybe both do, who knows.


So anyway, no doubt these facts would look a bit different if you limited to say results from 1960 onward or something like that.