Tag: AP Poll

  • College Football – 2014 Week 3 Rankings

    College Football – 2014 Week 3 Rankings

    No change in the first five spots of the latest top 25 rankings, meaning Florida State, Oregon, Alabama, Oklahoma and Auburn didn’t move whether they played or not, but Georgia fell seven spots after losing to South Carolina, getting a 10-spot surge up the rankings. Virginia Tech and Louisville lost to unranked teams, costing them a spot among the elite, meaning Nebraska and Oklahoma State fill in their place.

  • College Football – 2014 Week 2 Rankings

    College Football – 2014 Week 2 Rankings

    The number one team in the nation remains Florida State according to the rankings, but Oregon leap over Alabama to the number two spot thanks to their win over Michigan State as the Big Ten took some major hits from the voters and on the field. BYU, destroying Texas, and Virginia Tech, stunning Ohio State, are newcomers to the top 25 this season.

  • College Football – 2014 Week 1 Rankings

    College Football – 2014 Week 1 Rankings

    There’s no real change in the top of the rankings after the week 1 games, as Florida State and Alabama occupy the top two despite unimpressive wins. Georgia (after beating Clemson) and Texas A&M (defeating South Carolina) are the high risers, scorching their way into the top 10, while Louisville beating Miami made them the only new team in the rankings, coming in instead of an unimpressive Washington team.

  • College Football – 2014 Preseason Rankings

    College Football – 2014 Preseason Rankings

    A College Football season can’t begin with a preseason poll, that doesn’t surprise anyone by putting Florida State as the number one team heading into the 2014 season, although Alabama, Oregon and Oklahoma have also been getting consideration as potential national champions when this is all over.

  • College Football – Way Too Early 2014 Preseason Rankings

    It’s impossible to predict what happens in College Football season, but it’s always worth giving it a shot. The new playoff system means no more BCS rankings, and maybe even more significance in public perception for the AP Poll and its top 25.

  • 2014 College Basketball Season – Week 6 Rankings

    2014 College Basketball Season – Week 6 Rankings

    Despite struggling against UNLV at home, Arizona dominated the polls and landed its first top spot in a decade thanks to their 9-0 record and wins over Duke and San Diego State earlier on. The Wildcats lead a foursome with an undefeated record – Syracuse, Ohio State and Wisconsin.

  • College Football Preseason Rankings Mean Nothing – 2013 Edition

    College Football Preseason Rankings Mean Nothing – 2013 Edition

    Every season there’s another example of how preseason polls are quite terrible at predicting who are actually the best teams in college football. Florida State, undefeated and number one heading into the conference championship game, were outside the top 10. Florida, who finish the season at 4-8 were the number 10 team in the nation when the polls came out.

  • 2013 College Football Season – Week 7 Rankings

    2013 College Football Season – Week 7 Rankings

    A little bit of shake up in the top 10, although the usual suspects of Alabama, Oregon and Clemson remain in the lead of the top 25, but LSU and Texas A&M make big moves forward, rising thanks to the fall of Georgia and Stanford, losing for the first time in the 2013 season. The […]

  • 2013 College Football Season – Week 5 Rankings

    2013 College Football Season – Week 5 Rankings

    Once again, not a lot of motion in the upper side of the top 25, with Georgia being a three-spot movers up the AP Poll after beating LSU, remaining behind undefeated Stanford, Ohio State, Clemson, Oregon and Alabama, who kept on their winning ways, while Arizona State and Maryland are newcomers to the rankings this week. The biggest drop was experienced by Oklahoma State after losing to West Virginia, free falling 10 spots.

  • 2013 College Football Season – Week 4 Rankings

    2013 College Football Season – Week 4 Rankings

    One of the more uneventful weeks in recent history of the top 25, as the top 14 teams didn’t move due to a very soft schedule, as Alabama remain on top with the majority of the first place votes, followed relatively closely by Oregon, Clemson, Ohio State, Stanford and LSU as the hopefuls for the title game at the end of the 2013 College Football season.