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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 ----------------------------------- 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 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: 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 ---------------------------- 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 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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