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Appearances
Total, Preseason, Final Polls | Weekly, Season Streaks | Last
Miscellaneous
National Championships
Number 1 vs Number 2
Preseason Number 1 vs Number 2
Preseason vs Final Rankings of #1 Teams
Percentage of First-Place Votes for the Preseason #1 Team
Preseason #1 that Finished #1 with Fewest Regular-Season Weeks at #1:
1985 Oklahoma (1), 1978 Alabama (2), 1975 Oklahoma (4), 1974 Oklahoma (5),
1951 Tennessee (5)
AP Poll vs Harris Poll
Teams Ranked #2 With No First-Place Votes
Three Teams from the Same Conference in the Top 4
Most Points Allowed in One Game By an AP National Champion
January 7, 1948 Special Poll (Michigan/Notre Dame controversy)
November 15, 1934 Poll
Dates of Preseason/First Polls 1998-Present
Never Been Ranked
What do you think of the preseason football polls?
Are preseason polls really THAT bad?
Non-BCS vs BCS 2000-09
Research from Others
If you have some research that you would like to publish here, or know of some located elsewhere on the internet, please contact me.
Ranking high: scientific proof that preseason polls matter, Scott Albrecht, College Football by the Numbers, August 2009.
Most over-rated (football), Statistickler, August 2008.
Season Openers for Preseason #1 Teams, Tex Noel/1st-N-Goal, August 2008.
Rectifying a Stupid Conclusion - Preseason Polls, Scott Albrecht, College Football by the Numbers, August 2008.
Games Where #1 Was Shutout, Doug Tammaro, August 2008.
Tracking AP's National Champions!, Tex Noel/1st-N-Goal, August 2008.
Testing Bayesian Updating with the AP Top 25 (312 KB PDF), Daniel F.Stone, July 10, 2008. (check here for updates)
Whoa, Nellie! Empirical Tests of College Football's Conventional
Wisdom (abstract only), Trevon D. Logan, November 2007.
Success of Current Division-I College Football Teams Since Inception of Polls in 1936 (94 KB PDF), Lemieux, September 2007.
Evidence of Television Exposure Effects in AP Top 25 College Football Rankings (abstract only), Noel D. Campbell, Tammy M. Rogers, R. Zachary Finney.
BCS Rankings
Total Appearances | National Championships
UPDATE All BCS rankings have been added to the AP poll pages with the exception of a small percentage (3%) of teams ranked from #19 to #25 in the BCS that only appeared in the Others Receiving Votes section in the AP Poll. These BCS rankings will not display in the AP team week-by-week view, but are counted in the BCS total appearances.
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