Scott Van Pelt joins the chorus of making fun of Auburn's newfound "championships"

Scott Van Pelt is one of the only sports media personalities who is universally loved. If you don't like SVP, that probably says a lot more about you than it does him. He's the only real reason to turn ESPN on when there isn't a game playing these days, pretty much single-handedly keeping alive SportsCenter, which mostly now feels like a relic of a bygone era.

It's an absolute travesty that Van Pelt's brilliance on TV has never led to an Emmy Award. He's been nominated six times, but he's never taken home the hardware. The good news for SVP and all of his fans - that no longer matters, thanks to Auburn.

Van Pelt is taking a page out of Auburn's playbook and proclaiming himself a two-time Emmy winner now. He's giving himself the 2020 Emmy when his show was one of the only shows still running in a sports world that had almost completely shut down. He's also claiming another one of the heck of it, this time in 1910, as a way to poke fun at one of the new years Auburn is now claiming it won the National Championship.

Scott Van Pelt has more ground to stand on claiming an Emmy than Auburn does National Championships

At least in Van Pelt's case, he was at least nominated for an Emmy in 2020, the year he is jokingly claiming victory in. For Auburn, on the other hand, the Tigers have now claimed National Championships in two years which there were National Championship Games played that they were not a part of.

Auburn was controversially left out of the 2004 title game in favor of No. 1 USC and No. 2 Oklahoma. The Tigers finished undefeated by knocking off Virginia Tech in the Sugar Bowl, while USC went on to throttle Oklahoma in the championship. USC was later forced to vacate that title, but that doesn't mean Auburn gets to retroactively claim a title they didn't win.

For the record: USC would have blown out Auburn just like they did Oklahoma. Look at the two teams on paper; they weren't close in talent.

Auburn also claimed a National Championship in 1993 during a season in which the Tigers were on probation for cheating and not eligible for postseason play as a result.

And look - if you want to claim a title from 1910, go with God. Nobody cares. There was no real system for those things back then, so do what you want to do. But claiming titles in years where people vividly remember you not winning them is just an embarrassment, and another example of Auburn being Auburn.

I guess one good thing came out of it - congrats to SVP!