College Football World Champion

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Like NFL Super Bowl winners are world champions, and Heavyweight champion of the world, in boxing...

With NIL, transfer portal and 12-team playoff, does it change the winner of the play-off from a "College Football National Champion" to a "College Football World Champion" or "College Super Bowl Champion?" Or just stay the same?
 
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NFL is the "National Football League" and it never stopped them from claiming a world championship.

It has less to do with a sport being internationally represented by other teams. And more to do with the USA is the best at the sport, so our champion is the best in the world. Same with boxing.

Seems sort of "relevant" to me.

Edited to add: Also see MLB World Series and College WORLD Series.
 
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DowsaTV said:
NFL is the "National Football League" and it never stopped them from claiming a world championship.

It has less to do with a sport being internationally represented by other teams. And more to do with the USA is the best at the sport, so our champion is the best in the world. Same with boxing.

Seems sort of "relevant" to me.

Edited to add: Also see MLB World Series and College WORLD Series.
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Some important context to note with NFL:

Back before the merger, there was the American champion and the National champion, so "World Championship" seemed to be the natural progression.

Boxing - the title "World Champion" is given by a magazine and isn't directly associated with the big 4 boxing organizations - which have their own belts and can have a different "world champion".

Baseball - players come from all over the world to play in the best league in the world. There are international teams (Toronto and formerly Montreal) in the MLB. The World Series absolutely makes sense.

College baseball world series was established nearly 50 years after the MLB World Series so it makes sense that they would call it that.

It would be silly to try and call it anything else; college players all refer to it as a national championship or a natty, regardless of sport.
 
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Volunteer_Kirby said:
Some important context to note with NFL:

Back before the merger, there was the American champion and the National champion, so "World Championship" seemed to be the natural progression.

Boxing - the title "World Champion" is given by a magazine and isn't directly associated with the big 4 boxing organizations - which have their own belts and can have a different "world champion".

Baseball - players come from all over the world to play in the best league in the world. There are international teams (Toronto and formerly Montreal) in the MLB. The World Series absolutely makes sense.

College baseball world series was established nearly 50 years after the MLB World Series so it makes sense that they would call it that.

It would be silly to try and call it anything else; college players all refer to it as a national championship or a natty, regardless of sport.
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So "Super Natty". I like it. :D
 
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Fun place to put this

www.cbsnews.com

Euroleague champs challenge Celtics to determine a "World Champion"

If the NBA champion Boston Celtics want to consider themselves "World Champions," they apparently have to go through the Euroleague champs.
www.cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com

Would be hilarious for an American college football team to call themselves World Champs only to be challenged by Osaka University out of Japan
 
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