1926 college football season

The 1926 college football season was the first in which an attempt was made to recognize a national champion after the season.

Stanford, coached by Pop Warner, was the top team in the U.S. under the Dickinson System and was awarded the newly established Rissman Trophy. Unbeaten Stanford (10–0) faced unbeaten Alabama (9–0) in the Rose Bowl, and the two teams played to a 7–7 tie. Some prominent retroactive rankings have recognized Navy as the season's champion. Seven years after the season Parke H. Davis, a renowned football historian and football rules committee member, retroactively ranked Lafayette (9–0), where he had previously coached, a "National Champion Foot Ball Team" in Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide.

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