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2018 NCAA Tournament: The 14 Teams That Can Win the Championship
Taking overall performance, offensive and defensive efficiency as well as Pomeroy ratings into account, here is the 14-team shortlist which will produce the 2018 NCAA Tournament champion. The list includes surprising names such as Texas Tech and Wichita State, alongside heavy favorites like Virginia, Villanova and Duke, as well as the defending champions, North Carolina.
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College Football Week 3 Rankings
Three newcomers to the top 25, as Nebraska, San Diego State and Utah replace Iowa, Notre Dame and Oregon. Alabama maintain the top spot while Ohio State rise to number 2 and Louisville take over number 3. The rest of the top 7 remains unchanged, while Miami moving up 10 spots to number 15 is the biggest rise of the week. Both Oklahoma and Florida State dropped 11 spots.
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2016 College Football Season: Week 1 Rankings
The week 1 AP Top 25 offers little change in top 5, with Alabama and Clemson retaining their 1-2 spots, while Florida State, Ohio State and Michigan make minor advancements instead of Oklahoma and LSU, having huge falls after their losses. Houston rose to number 6 thanks to beating the Sooners, while Washington, Georgia and Wisconsin join Stanford to complete the top 10, while Florida were the only team that won and still dropped from the rankings.
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2016 College Football Season: Preseason Rankings
As expected, the first preseason poll puts Alabama on top of the rankings, favorites to defend their national title. They were among seven teams, including Clemson, Oklahoma, Florida State, LSU, Ohio State and Michigan to receive first place votes.
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College Basketball Rumors – Duke Blue Devils, North Carolina Tar Heels Had a Bad Day
A couple of firsts for both Duke and North Carolina on the same day, as the Blue Devils were not included in the AP Top 25 rankings for the first time since the preseason rankings of the 2007-2008 season, while the Tar Heels, losing 71-65 at Louisville, were beaten for the first time this season in ACC play.
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2015 College Football Season – Final Rankings
The College Football season is over with Alabama as national champions, which gives them the number one spot on the final rankings, followed by runners-up Clemson at number two, Rose Bowl champions Stanford at number three and Ohio State, probably the second best team in the country at least, settling for the Fiesta Bowl and the number four spot. Navy and Western Kentucky make rare appearances in the AP Top 25, and the same goes for Houston and Iowa (despite the loss), finishing the season in the top 10.
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Teams With the Most College Football National Championships
In the poll-era which began in 1936 and includes teams finishing the college football season at #1 on the AP Poll or Coaches poll, later including the BCS championship and now the College Football Playoff, there are only seven programs with five national titles or more: Alabama, Miami, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, Ohio State and USC.
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2016 College Basketball Season – Rankings Don’t Change Much, For Now
The week 7 rankings of the AP Poll give us a similar lead in the top 25 to the previous week, with Michigan State holding on to the number one spot and the top 3, which include Kansas at number two and Oklahoma at number three, is unchanged. Kentucky fall to number 12 after their loss while Duke fall to number 15.
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2015 College Football Season – Week 10 Rankings
The AP Poll rankings don’t determine anything, but they still mean something, and following week 10 in the 2015 season, they put Clemson on top for the first time in 34 years, followed by Ohio State, Alabama, Baylor and Oklahoma State in the top 5. The Cowboys rising seven spots are the big winners of the week while Michigan State and TCU tumbled down eight spots, not to mention Toledo, Ole Miss and Texas A&M dropping out, replaced by Navy, Wisconsin and Northwestern.
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2016 College Basketball Season: Preseason Rankings
Despite being quite a way from their most recent success, North Carolina are crowned as the preseason number one team, with Kentucky, Maryland, Kansas and defending national champions Duke completing the top 5. Wisconsin, last year’s national title game losers, are in at number 17.