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 1950 consisted of the votes of as many as 317 sportswriters.[3] Though not all writers voted in every poll, each would give their opinion of the ten best teams. Under a point system of 10 points for first place, 9 for second, etc., the "overall" ranking was determined, and the top twenty colleges were ranked based on their overall points.
For the first time, the Associated Press issued a "preseason poll", before most teams played their first games.[4]
Starting in 1950, the United Press began the "Coaches Poll." "Thirty-five of the nation's foremost football coaches will rate the country's top collegiate football teams each week for the United Press this coming season," an announcement stated, with "five coaches from each section of the country-- the east, midlands, midwest, Pacific coast, the Rockies, south and southwest". The UP added, referring to the AP writers' poll, "The nature of the board giving each section of the country equal representation avoids the sectional bias and ballot box stuffing for which other football polls have been criticized.".[5] The coaches named Notre Dame as the #1 team in the first UP poll, with 25 of the 35 first place votes.[6]
Generally, 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 (Dallas). Taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950_college_football_season
Final Stats:
| Conference | Best Team | Best Coach | Best Players in NFL Draft |
| Big 7 | Oklahoma | Bud Wilkinson | Leon Heath FB picked 4th by WAS |
| Clair Mayes G picked 95th by CHI | |||
| Nolan Lang B picked 107th by RAM | |||
| Frankie Anderson E picked 128th by DET | |||
| Ed Lisak B picked 229th by CHI | |||
| Ind | Princeton | Charles Caldwell | Holland Donan T picked 109th by NYG |
| SWC | Texas | Blair Cherry | Bud McFadin DT picked 11th by RAM |
| Ken Jackson T picked 22nd by NYY | |||
| Gene Vykukal T picked 182nd by NYG | |||
| Dick Rowan C picked 203rd by NYY | |||
| Ray Stone E picked 255th by CLE | |||
| Dick Harris C picked 297th by DET | |||
| SEC | Kentucky | Bear Bryant | Bob Gain DT picked 5th by GNB |
| Walt Yowarsky DE picked 29th by WAS | |||
| Al Bruno E picked 32nd by PHI | |||
| Bob Pope T picked 130th by PHI | |||
| Bill Leskovar B picked 163rd by CRD | |||
| Clay Webb B picked 176th by PIT | |||
| Bill Wanamaker G picked 179th by NYY | |||
| Dom Fucci DB picked 210th by WAS | |||
| Dick Martin B picked 331st by CRD | |||
| PCC | California | Pappy Waldorf | Pete Schabarum HB picked 17th by SFO |
| Jim Monachino HB picked 137th by SFO | |||
| Ray Solari G picked 231st by CLE | |||
| Western | Illinois | Ray Eliot | Lynn Lynch G picked 51st by CRD |
| Dick Raklovits B picked 91st by DET | |||
| Wayne Siegert T picked 153rd by DET | |||
| Paul Douglass B picked 158th by NYG | |||
| Chuck Brown G picked 216th by CHI | |||
| Al Tate T picked 234th by SFO | |||
| Al Brosky DB picked 324th by RAM | |||
| Southern | Clemson | Frank Howard | Fred Cone FB picked 27th by GNB |
| Ray Mathews HB picked 81st by PIT | |||
| Steve Wyndham B picked 131st by NYY | |||
| Bob Hudson DB picked 146th by NYG | |||
| Dick Hendley BB picked 262nd by PIT | |||
| Jackie Calvert T picked 300th by RAM | |||
| Skyline | Wyoming | Bowden Wyatt | Dick Campbell B picked 149th by WAS |
| Jerry Taylor C picked 325th by CHI | |||
| MVC | Tulsa | John Brothers | Jack Crocker B picked 243rd by CLE |
| S.J. Whitman DB picked 259th by CRD | |||
| Fred Smith E picked 345th by PIT |
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