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This is a list of college football teams by the number of weeks they have been ranked number one in the AP poll since its inception in 1936 through January 21, 2025 (Final poll for 2024-25 season). [1] [2]
Georgia head coach Kirby Smart and players celebrate a win over Texas after the Southeastern Conference championship NCAA college football game, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024, in Atlanta.
In American college sports, the Associated Press poll (AP poll) provides weekly rankings of the top 25 NCAA teams in one of three Division I sports: football, men's basketball and women's basketball. The rankings are compiled by polling 62 sportswriters and broadcasters from across the nation. [ 1 ]
The AP Poll began with the 1936 college football season. [6] The Coaches Poll began with the 1950 college football season and became the second major polling system. [7] [better source needed] In 1978, Division I football was split into two distinct divisions and a second poll was added for the new Division I-AA.
The AP Top 25 has a new No. 1 after Saturday's Week 3 action. Texas is the new team atop the poll after the Longhorns' 56–7 demolishing of UTSA in Austin. Starting quarterback Quinn Ewers left ...
Oregon was the unanimous choice for No. 1 in The Associated Press college football poll on Sunday, strengthening its bid for the top spot in the College Football Playoff selection committee's ...
Clemson entered the game at No. 14 in the AP poll and nearly fell out of the top 25 entirely after the loss. The Tigers are at No. 25. Texas, Alabama and Notre Dame now round out the top five.
At the end of each season the poll's No. 1 team was awarded the Top 25 trophy, [2] emblematic of the poll's college football national championship. The NCAA recognizes the USA Today and USA Today / CNN polls as "major selectors" [3] of national championships for the years 1982 and 1983–1990, and additionally denotes that the Top 25 poll's ...