'Split' title 35 years ago? Don't tell Colorado and Georgia Tech that

""Oh no. I would never say it was a split national championship," Swilling said. "They can call us split, co- whatever they want to call it, but as far as Georgia Tech is concerned, we won the national championship in 1990. Heck, it took them five downs against Missouri to get the split anyway.""

""We were the best team in the nation. I have no doubts about that," Brown says. "So people's opinion about the Fifth-Down Game and people's opinion about who should have won a national championship, it lands so poorly on me I don't think about it. When someone says, 'You won a national championship at Colorado?' I say, 'Yes, I did.' 'You don't say you won a split national championship?' No. Never once have I e"

Colorado and Georgia Tech both claim the 1990 college football national championship and each team wears a gold ring with a diamond-filled "1" commemorating 1990. Colorado finished 11-1-1, topped the AP poll, and points to a superior strength of schedule as justification for its claim. Georgia Tech finished 11-0-1, topped the coaches' poll by one vote, and points to its unbeaten season as justification for its claim. The disagreement persists 35 years later. The dispute stems from the pre-BCS era when no mechanism existed to settle competing national-title claims on the field, and controversial moments such as Colorado's Fifth-Down Game remain focal points of the debate.

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