When UCLA took over the No. 1 spot in national titles in 1996, it surpassed USC. As things currently stand, UCLA and Stanford lead with 113 titles while USC has 104. But that’s actually progress over the past six years. In 2011, UCLA had 107 championships while USC had 93. So the Trojans have made steady improvement in this area recently. Thank men’s tennis, men’s and women’s polo and beach volleyball.
It’s actually impressive when you consider some predicted in the 1980’s USC would never be a real factor again under scholarship limitations.
What are the standings between UCLA, USC, and Stanford if you take every program’s claimed football championships into account?
Or take away ugly’s championships in softball since USC does not participate in that sport.
The FB NC’s you reference were issued by competing FB press associations; the NCAA didn’t sanction a NCAA FB NC
until the advent of the BCS competition..
I know. Just curious.
He’s trying to troll you. He’s not all that good at it.
Wow, thanks for the positive post.
USC competes in polo now?
Is Traveler involved?
They do have a Polo team–which is not an NCAA sanctioned sport. But the Blogger got confused. He didn’t think the horse could swim.
I had no idea about the non sanctioned polo. What I did know was that this post contained a careless error.
You neglected to mention women soccer (2016) and LaCrosse (this coming weekend)
Stanford, maybe UCLA, participate in more sports than USC. Think gymnastics (men’s & women’s), men’s soccer, softball, other? It is easier to compile titles when you are competing in more sports.
Really? They count women’s and men’s tiddlywinks? It is amazing how many of those ucla and stanford championships are in tennis, softball, gymnastics, etc. It would be nice to get back to winning baseball WS trophies again. If Stanford can do it, why can’t we?
Why doesn’t Mr. Positive just look at men’s only national championships? Or at least mention it? Sour Wolf, per usual…..