1928 college football season
Conference Champion ( s ) Record
Central Intercollegiate Athletics Association Hampton Institute 7-0
Central Intercollegiate Athletic Conference College of Emporia 6-0
Far Western Conference Saint Mary 's ( CA ) 2-0
Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference Baker 5-0-2
Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Iowa State Teachers 4-0-2
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Albion 5-0
Midwest Collegiate Athletic Conference Coe Hamline 4-0-1 1-0
Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Augsburg Saint Mary 's 4-1-2 6-1
Missouri Intercollegiate Athletic Association Northeast Missouri State Teachers Southwest Missouri State Teachers 3-0-1
Nebraska College Athletic Conference Hastings 5-0-1
Nebraska Intercollegiate Athletic Association Nebraska State Teachers-Peru -
North Central Intercollegiate Conference North Dakota 4-0
Ohio Athletic Conference Heidelberg 6-0-1
Oklahoma Intercollegiate Conference Phillips 5-1-1
Pacific Northwest Conference Whitman 4-0
Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Occidental 5-1
South Dakota Intercollegiate Conference Black Hills Teachers 5-0
Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Clark College Tuskegee 5-1-1
Southwestern Athletic Conference Wiley ( TX ) 5-0
Texas Collegiate Athletic Conference Howard Payne 5-0
Conference standings -- Minor conferences
The 1928 football season have both the USC Trojans and the Georgia Tech Golden Tornado claim national championships. USC was recognized as champions under the Dickinson System, but the Rose Bowl was contested between the #2 and #3 teams, California and Georgia Tech. The game was decided by a safety scored after Roy Wrong Way Riegels ran 65 yards in the wrong direction. Vance Maree blocked the ensuing punt which gave Georgia Tech a safety deciding the 8-7 win. The Florida Gators led the nation in scoring as a team, led by its Phantom Four backfield, with 336 points. They were remembered by many sports commentators as the best Florida football team until at least the 1960s. NYU halfback Ken Strong led the nation in scoring as an individual, with 162 points, and tallied some 3,000 total yards from scrimmage.