How many national championships in football has Georgia Tech won?

Answer 1

Four teams laid claim to several versions of the National Championship in 1990: *GEORGIA TECH YELLOWJACKETS: UPI, Dunkel, FACT, National Championship Foundation *MIAMI HURRICANES: Billingsley, Eck, FACT, NY Times, Sagarin *WASHINGTON HUSKIES: FACT *Colorado BUFFALOES: AP, Berryman, DeVold, FACT, FB News, Football Research, FW, Matthews, National Championship Foundation, NFF, Sporting News, USA/CNN **An Important Note--From Wikipedia's entry entitled "Fifth Down": "A fifth down that was the result of an error by the officiating crew enabled the Colorado Buffaloes to defeat the Missouri Tigers by scoring a touchdown on the last play of their game on October 6, 1990. The ensuing controversy cast doubt on the claim to major College Football's 1990 national championship by the University of Colorado Buffaloes.Immediately before the Missouri game, Colorado was ranked 12th nationally, and Missouri was unranked (ranked 26th or lower)...The Missouri game actually caused Colorado's ranking to decline to 14th. However, most of the top teams lost in subsequent weeks, while the Buffaloes won their remaining games, including squeakers over highly-rated Nebraska and Notre Dame. The Orange Bowl victory over Notre Dame was considered very controversial as well (Notre Dame Coach Lou Holtz had told his team in a pregame speech that Colorado was "living a lie"), due to a questionable clipping call on the Irish on a punt return touchdown late in the game by Raghib Ismail when Colorado held a 10-9 lead, which would be the final score after Notre Dame was assessed the penalty.Colorado finished the 1990 season with a record of 11

Answer 2

Answer Georgia Tech has received 4 National Championships: 1917, 1928, 1952, and most recently in 1990. That is 2 more than UGA. ;P