Tennessee was the reighning National Football Champions of the previous year (1938).
They finished a 10 game regular season schedule UNDEFEATED / UNTIED / & UN- SCORED upon for the ENTIRE regular season! (The ONLY football team in the modern era to accomplish that!). - Yeah, they lost to USC in a bowl game - but bowl games back then were just like a minor festival……
The pollsters gave the National Championship to Texas A&M - who had a weaker schedule anyway!
General Neyland got ROBBED on THAT one!!!
There is NO Reason that UT should NOT claim 1939 as a National Championship!
Alabama claimed THREE undeserved titles just by putting them in their “Annual Programs…..”
