{"id":261137,"date":"2026-09-05T04:00:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T04:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/05\/the-ncaa-football-national-champions-quiz\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T04:00:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T04:00:43","slug":"the-ncaa-football-national-champions-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/05\/the-ncaa-football-national-champions-quiz\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;NCAA football national champions&#8217; quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>For the first time in school history, the Indiana Hoosiers begin a national title defense in college football this week when they take on the North Texas Mean Green.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>The reigning-champions enter the season ranked No. 6 in the AP Top-25 under head coach Curt Cignetti despite losing Heisman Trophy winner and first-overall NFL Draft pick Fernando Mendoza.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>While few would have expected the Hoosiers to be the school to complete the job, 2025-26 was the third-straight season a Big 10 school has won the national championship after a run of four-consecutive from the SEC.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>Which brings us to today\u2019s quiz. How many of the college football national champions since 1950 can you name in seven minutes?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Good luck!<\/p>\n<p><span><em>Did you like this quiz? Are there any quizzes you\u2019d like to see us make in the future? Let us know your thoughts at quizzes@yardbarker.com, and make sure to subscribe to our Quiz of the Day Newsletter for daily quizzes sent right to your email!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/college_football\/articles\/the_ncaa_football_national_champions_quiz\/s1__44258167\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in school history, the Indiana Hoosiers begin a national title defense in college football this week when they take on the North Texas Mean Green.\u00a0 The reigning-champions enter the season ranked No. 6 in the AP Top-25 under head coach Curt Cignetti despite losing Heisman Trophy winner and first-overall NFL Draft [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-261137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}