Ultimate football state: No one can touch Alabama for football success
The schools from Alabama that can claim national titles are, clockwise from top left: West Alabama (shown in 1971 when it was Livingston University), Jacksonville State (shown in 1992), Tuskegee (shown in 2007), Auburn (shown in 2010), North Alabama (shown in 1995), Troy (shown in 1984) and Alabama (shown in 2009). (The Birmingham News illustration/Kent Kasey) BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- Larry Blakeney admits it. He's not a neutral observer. He's lived and worked in this state his whole life.
Born in Birmingham. Raised in Gordo. Graduated from Auburn and got a master's from Montevallo.
Coached at three different high schools and two different universities, 14 years as an Auburn assistant and the past 20 years as the head coach at Troy.
You don't have to twist his arm to get him to support the following declaration: Alabama is the ultimate football state.
"As far as interest and participation and winning and bowls and championships, it's got to be," Blakeney said. "Other folks can make claims. If this isn't the best football state in America, I need to know who it is."
In other words, he already knows.
You don't have to be a scholar to know how rich this state's football history is. One way a state becomes the ultimate football state is by winning the ultimate football prize, the national championship, and the numbers there are staggering.
Seven different universities in this state have combined to claim 31 national titles, and it's not just the University of Alabama with 13 championships and Auburn University with a pair of its own.
It's Tuskegee with eight Historically Black College and University titles, stretching from 1924 to 2007.
It's Troy with three championships, one in the NAIA in 1968 and two more in Division II in 1984 and 1987.
It's North Alabama with three straight Division II titles in 1993, 1994 and 1995.
It's West Alabama with an NAIA title in 1971 and Jacksonville State with a Division II crown in 1992.
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