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What does it take to win a small college national title?
Four Texas colleges have won national championships since 2010: Texas A&M-Commerce, Mary Hardin-Baylor, Sam Houston and Navarro. We talked to all their coaches about what it takes.

With Sam Houston’s win in the FCS national championship game last week, the state of Texas has won a national championship at every level from FBS to JUCO.
There’s a great deal of talk at the Power Five level of football about the formula of how to win a national championship – recruiting, development, schematics. However, winning at the small college level is never quite as straightforward.
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