As an Auburn alumnus, I have been a fan of the Auburn University athletic teams and have noted that the Auburn Athletic Department has not gone to the lengths that the athletic departments of other universities to celebrate the accomplishments of its football teams. For example, while the NCAA Records Book recognizes Auburn as a national champion for the 1913 season, the Auburn Athletic Department only notes this in a footnote of the media guide. This past summer, I saw in the news that the University of Minnesota had decided to claim a college football national championship for the 1903 season because it was chosen as such by a noted retroactive selector. Then later this summer it was noted that Texas A&M University has…