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April 1: The Baylor-Stanford Women's Final Four game was the 44th AP #1 vs #2 matchup. It also marked the 5th time that there have been three such matchups in one season, and just the 2nd with the same #1 team in all three games:

#1 Team		Season		W-L
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Baylor		2011-12		3-0
Connecticut	1999-00		2-1
3 teams		1992-93		1-2
2 teams		1988-89		2-1
2 teams		1982-83		1-2

March 14: The latest AP MBB poll has been posted and the Total Appearances are now current.


March 14: The latest AP WBB poll has been posted and the Total Appearances are now current.


March 7: According to my records, North Carolina has reached 800 appearances in the AP men's
basketball poll.


March 7: Amen... Whether it's football or basketball, college coaches polls need to go.


January 11: Here are the milestones for the latest AP football poll:

Last Appearances:
- Alabama makes first appearance #1 since the 10/3/2010 poll (25 polls)

Weekly Streaks:
- Houston's Top 25 streak reaches 10
- LSU's Number 1 streak ends at 11
- Michigan State's Top 25 streak reaches 10

Final Streaks:
- Ohio State's streak ends at 9 seasons
- Oregon's streak reaches 5 seasons

Total Appearances:
- Cincinnati ties Holy Cross for #83
- Nebraska ties Texas for #6
- Southern Miss ties Wyoming for #71
- Wisconsin ties Iowa for #23


January 11: Oklahoma finishes with the lowest final ranking of a preseason #1 since Penn State in 1997.


January 11: According to my records, this is the 65th time two teams from the same conference have been ranked #1 and #2 in the AP poll. The SEC has done it the last 18 times. Independents have done it a total of 70 times. The breakdown:

Big 8		24
SEC		22
Big Ten		14
Pac-10		 2
Southwest	 2
Big 12		 1

January 9: First time since 1996 that the #1 team was shutout, and only second time in #1 vs #2 matchups.


December 4: With just one game/poll left, #19 Oklahoma could have the lowest final ranking of any preseason #1 since 1960 (not including 1962-64 where only 10 teams were ranked in the final poll). Here is the breakdown since the AP preseason football poll began in 1950 (61 seasons):

Category	Teams	PCT
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Number 1	10	16.4
Top 5		38	62.3
Top 10		49	80.3
Ranked		56	91.8
Unranked	5*	8.2

* 3 of the 5 occurred from 1962-64

October 29: Added coaches to the AP National Championships football page.


October 9: How much difference does it make to wait a month for the first poll to come out? Apparently, not much.


September 27: In this week's poll (9/25), the AP #1 team (Oklahoma) won but fell to #2. This is the 70th time that this has occurred, an average of nearly once per season. See the full list.


September 25: Oklahoma and Oklahoma State are ranked in the AP Top 5 for the 3rd time (11/20/1984 and 10/8/1985 are the others).


September 11: LSU's 17 first place votes in today's AP poll are the 5th highest for a #3 team since 1960 (the year where the number of voters was greatly reduced and standardized). The Top 4 are:

25 - Nebraska, 10/18/1994
24 - Nebraska, 10/25/1994
19 - USC, 12/3/1979
18 - Oklahoma, 9/16/1974


August 28: The #1 progression for the football polls has returned with a minor enhancement. Hovering the mouse over the number of first-place votes will display the percent of total first-place votes that team received in a tooltip.


August 20: Historical football conference affiliations have been added to the polls. More conference-related data will be added in the future.


May 18: The AP National Championships page (football) has been updated to include independents and a breakdown of the teams and their conference affiliation at the time of the championship.


Poll: What do you think of the preseason football polls?

Poll: Should USC be stripped of its 2004 National Championship?

Poll: Which rankings do you trust the most?



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