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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 Poll is not the only college football poll. The other major poll is the Coaches Poll , which has been published by several organizations: the United Press (1950–1957), the United Press International (1958–1990), USA Today (1991–present), CNN (1991–1996), and ESPN (1997–2005).
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]
In the United States, the Coaches Poll is a weekly ranking of the top 25 NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) college football, Division I college basketball, and Division I college baseball teams. The football version of the poll has been known officially as the US LBM Coaches Poll since 2023. The football rankings are compiled by ...
College football ranking for Week 7 US LBM Coaches Poll. SEC teams bolded. First-place votes in parentheses. Texas (44) Ohio State (11) Oregon. Georgia. Penn State. Miami. Alabama. Ole Miss ...
Two human polls and a committee's selections comprise the 2023 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) football rankings, in addition to various publications' preseason polls. Unlike most sports, college football's governing body, the NCAA, does not bestow a national championship at the FBS ...
[5] It was cited as the first college football ratings system. [6] From the late 1930s through the early 1960s, Dunkel also hosted a weekly radio program called "Dick Dunkel Football Forecasts". [7] [8] [9] He also issued college basketball forecasts and rankings in conjunction with Converse, starting in the 1940s. [10] [11]
The USA Today / CNN Top 25 football poll was a weekly ranking of the top 25 NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision college football teams. The poll was published in the nascent national newspaper USA Today , which first launched in 1982, and was distributed on parent company Gannett 's newswire .