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The American Football Coaches Association has named Oklahoma State its 1945 national champion.The AFCA, which made the announcement Thursday, said several schools requested that it establish a group of coaches to select winners from 1922, when the association was founded, to 1949, the year before its coaches poll was first published. Oklahoma State is the first school to be retroactively named national champion. Pickens, a 1951 graduate who has donated more than $500 million to the school and whose name is on the football stadium, was thrilled to hear the news.Army was The Associated Press national champion in 1945. Oklahoma A&M, as Oklahoma State was called as back then, finished No. 5 in the final AP poll that year. 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Its a necessary exercise in monotony, he said.Will it be his last?I have no idea, he said. I dont even know what Im having for dinner tonight.Fitzgerald, who turns 33 on Aug. 31, is in the final season of a two-year, $22 million deal. The Cardinals are the only team he has known since they drafted him No. 3 overall in 2004.And he returns to a team loaded with talent. Every player who gained a yard or scored a point for one of the most potent offenses in the NFL last season is back.To be able to bring back that kind of power to a team thats already really good, it really is unheard of, Fitzgerald said. But were back to the basics now. We have to learn how to make sure we dont make the same mistakes we made last year, get off to a fast start. Thats the most important thing for us right now on the third day of training camp.Fitzgerald had one of his best seasons in 2015, catching 109 passes to break the franchise record he set a decade earlier. His 1,215 yards receiving marked the seventh time he passed 1,000 yards in a season.Now his career goals have dwindled to one.I just want to win a championship, he said. Thats it.The Cardinals are a lot better known to football fans after the acclaimed All or Nothing video series on Amazon.com chronicled the teams march to a 13-3 season, dramatic playoff victory over Green Bay and crushing loss at Carolina in the NFC championship game.Fitzgerald said the series, produced by NFL Films, gave eeverybody the view that we always see.ddddddddddddWeve got a great group in this locker room, he said. Everybodys really approachable and close. Theres no egos in here. We all want to work. Its not above anybody to do whatever is asked of us.Thats hard to put together a team like that thats committed to that mentality for a whole season. Its a privilege to be on this squad and I think everybody who watched it got the same sense.Now the Cardinals have to start from scratch again.Theres a lot of optimism, Fitzgerald said. You look at the team and what weve been able to put together this offseason and what we have returning from last years team, its a lot of excitement. I think we all understand that we have the ability to be a force to be reckoned with throughout the course of the year.Obviously the health of our team has a big part to do with that, but what we have and the pieces we have are pretty special.Fitzgerald had his usual world travels this offseason, to France, England and Africa this time.He also lost two of the most important men in his life.His friend and former coach Dennis Green died of a heart attack. His agent Eugene Parker succumbed to kidney cancer.Fitzgerald was a ball boy for the Green-coached Minnesota Vikings. 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