Conference play began that day with Alabama hosting Howard.
Teams other than Vanderbilt had a chance to win a title, and newspapers covered football more than the World Series for the first time.
[1] Fuzzy Woodruff says the Southern newspapers began to cover football more than the World Series.
The 1913 Tigers were retroactively recognized as a national champion by the Billingsley Report's alternative calculation which considers teams' margin of victory.
The composite All-Southern team formed by the selection of 18 sporting writers culled by the Atlanta Constitution included:[111]