Football Writers Association of America
Grantland Rice Award National Championship
Winners prior to 1992
1954 UCLA
1955 Oklahoma Grantland Rice, dean of American sports-
1956 Oklahoma writers was born Novemember 1, 1880 and died
1957 Ohio State July 12, 1954. Tim Cohane, sports editor of
1958 Iowa Look magazine from 1944 to 1965, founded
1959 Syracuse the Grantland Rice Award to honor the annual
1960 Mississippi college football national champion as
1961 Ohio State selected by the Football Writers Association
1962 USC of America.
1963 Texas
1964 Arkansas
1965 Alabama & Michigan State
1966 Notre Dame
1967 USC
1968 Ohio State
1969 Texas
1970 Nebraska
1971 Nebraska
1972 USC
1973 Notre Dame
1974 USC
1975 Oklahoma
1976 Pittsburgh
1977 Notre Dame
1978 Alabama
1979 Alabama
1980 Georgia
1981 Clemson
1982 Penn State
1983 Miami FL
1984 Brigham Young
1985 Oklahoma
1986 Penn State
1987 Miami FL
1988 Notre Dame
1989 Miami FL
1990 Colorado
1991 Washington
1992 SEASON
Voted on by a four-man panel including
Mike Lopresti, Gannett News Service; Bill
Lumpkin, Birmingham (Alabama) Post-Herald;
Ivan Maisel, The Dallas Morning News; and
Ed Sherman, Chicago Tribune. Each voter
fills out a three-team ballot. First place votes
in parentheses. Winning team receives the
Grantland Rice Award, given since 1954.
1 Alabama (4)
2 Florida State
3 Miami FL
1993 SEASON
Voted on by a five-man panel including
Roy Exum, Chattanooga (Tennessee) News-Free Press;
Bob Hentzen, The Topeka (Kansas) Capital-Journal; Mike Lopresti, Gannett
News Service; Thomas OTode, Scripps-Howard News Service; and Blackie Sherrod,
The Dallas Morning News. Each voter selects
three teams in order of preference, three
points for Ist, two points for 2nd and one point
for 3td. Winning team receives the Grantland
Rice Award, given since 1954.
1st 2nd 3rd Points
1 Florida State 3 2 0 13
2 Notre Dame 2 3 0 12
3 Nebraska 0 O 4 4
4 Auburn 0 O 1 1
1994 SEASON
Voted on by a five-man panel comprised
of Ed Sherman and Andy Bagnato of The Chicago Tribune;
Mark Blaudschun of The Boston
Globe; Ivan Maisel of Newsday; and Gene
Wojciechowski of The Los Angeles Times.
Each voter selects three teams in order of
preference, three points for Ist place, two
points for 2nd place and one point for 3rd
place. Winning team receives the Grantland
Rice Award, given since 1954.
1st 2nd 3rd Points
1 Nebraska 5 0 0 15
2 Penn State 0 5 0 10
3 Colorado 0 0 5 5
1995 SEASON
Voted on by a five-man panel including
Bob Hammel of the Bloomington Herald-Times,
Ed Joyce of ESPN, Blair Kerkhoff of the Kansas City Star,
Ivan Maisel of Newsday, and
Corky Simpson of the Tucson Citizen. Each
selector voted for one team. Winning team
receives the Granttand Rice Award, given since
1954.
1 Nebraska (5)
1996 SEASON
Voted on by a five-man panel including
Andy Bagnato of the Chicago Tribune, Tony
Bamhart of the Atlanta Constitution, Mark
Blaudschun of the Boston Globe, Tim Layden of
Sports Illustrated, and Steve Weiberg of USA
Today. Each selector votes for one team.
Winning team receives the Grantland Rice
Award, given since 1954.
1 Florida (5)
1997 SEASON
Voted on by a five-man panel including
Tony Bamhart of the Atlanta Journal-Constition,
Mark Blaudschun of the Boston
Globe, Blair Kerkhoff of the Kansas City Star,
Ivan Maisel of CNN-Sports Illustrated, and Dick
Weiss of the New York Daily News. Each
selector voted for one team. Winning team
receives the Grantland Rice Award, given since
1954.
1 Michigan (5)
1998 SEASON
Voted on by a five-man
panel including Tony Barnhart of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Mark
Blaudschun of the Boston Globe, Chris Dufresne of the
Los Angeles Times,
Ivan Maisel of CNN-Sports Illustrated, and Steve Wieberg of USA Today.
Each selector voted for one team. Winning team receives the Grantland Rice
Award, given since 1954.
1 Tennessee (5)
1999 SEASON
Voted on by a five-man panel including Tony Barnhart of the Atlanta
Journal-Constitution, Mark Blaudschun of the Boston Globe, Chris Dufresne of
the Los Angeles Times, Tom Shatel of the Omaha World-Herald, and Dick Weiss of
the New York Daily News. Each selector voted for one team. Winning team
receives the Grantland Rice Award, given since 1954.
1 Florida State (5)
1992 - 1999 Recap:
1992 Alabama
1993 Florida State
1994 Nebraska
1995 Nebraska
1996 Florida
1997 Michigan
1998 Tennessee
1999 Florida State
Recap
(4) Alabama 1965, 1978, 1979, 1992
(4) Nebraska 1970, 1971, 1994, 1995
(4) Notre Dame 1966, 1973, 1977, 1988
(4) Oklahoma 1955, 1956, 1975, 1985
(4) USC 1962, 1967, 1972, 1974
(3) Miami FL 1983, 1987, 1989
(3) Ohio State 1957, 1961, 1968
(2) Florida State 1993, 1999
(2) Penn State 1982, 1986
(2) Texas 1963, 1969
Arkansas 1964
Brigham Young 1984
Clemson 1981
Colorado 1990
Florida 1996
Georgia 1980
Iowa 1958
Michigan 1997
Michigan State 1965
Mississippi 1960
Pittsburgh 1976
Syracuse 1959
Tennessee 1998
UCLA 1954
Washington 1991
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