The 1957 NCAA University Division football season saw two different national champions. Auburn University was ranked first in the AP writers' poll taken at season's end, while Ohio State University was first in the UPI coaches' poll.[3]
Auburn was ineligible for a bowl game, however, having been placed on
probation indefinitely by the Southeastern Conference, after having paid
two high school players US$500 apiece.[4] During the 20th century, the NCAA had no playoff for the college football
teams that would later be described as "Division I-A". The NCAA did
recognize a national champion based upon the final results of "wire
service" (AP and UPI) polls. The extent of that recognition came in the
form of acknowledgment in the annual NCAA Football Guide of the
"unofficial" national champions. The AP poll in 1957 consisted of the
votes of as many as 360 sportswriters. The UPI poll was taken of a panel
of 35 coaches. In both cases, the voters would give their opinion of
the ten best teams, and under a point system of 10 points for first
place, 9 for second, etc., the "overall" ranking was determined. The top
teams played on New Year's Day in the four major postseason bowl games:
the Rose Bowl (near Los Angeles at Pasadena), the Sugar Bowl (New Orleans), the Orange Bowl (Miami), and the Cotton Bowl Classic (Dallas). Taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957_college_football_season.
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