The Associated Press (AP Poll) provides a weekly ranking of the top 25 NCAA teams in one of three Division I college sports: football, men's basketball and women's basketball. Ratings are collected by polls of 65 sports authors and broadcasters from across the nation. Each voter rated itself out of the top 25 teams, and the individual ratings were combined to produce national rankings by giving the team 25 points for first place votes, 24 for second place votes, and so on up to 1 point for twenty-five spot elections. Votes from voting members in the AP Poll were announced to the public.
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College soccer
Football polls are released on Sunday at 2 pm Eastern time during the football season, unless the ranking team has not completed their game.
History
The AP college polls have a long history. The news media began running its own poll of sports writers to determine who, in popular opinion, the country's best soccer team at the end of the season. One of the earliest polls was the AP University Football Polls, first run in 1934. In 1935, AP sports editor Alan J. Gould declared a three-way tie for national champions in football between Minnesota, Princeton and Southern Methodist. Minnesota fans protested, and a number of Gould's colleagues led by Charles "Cy" Sherman suggested he create a sports editor poll instead of just using his own list, and the following year the poll was born. It goes on from 1936.
Due to the long historical relationship between each college football conference and high-end bowl games such as the Rose Bowl and the Orange Bowl, the NCAA has not held a tournament or championship game to determine the champion of what is now the highest division, NCAA Division I, Football Bowls division (Division I, Football Championship Division, and bottom division organize championship tournaments). As a result, the public and the media began to recognize the leading voters in the AP Poll final as national champions for the season.
While Poll AP is currently registering the top 25 teams in the country, from 1936 to 1961 the wire service was only ranked 20 teams. From 1962 to 1967 only 10 recognized teams. From 1968 to 1988, AP resumed the Top 20 before expanding to the current 25 teams in 1989.
AP began conducting pre-season polls beginning in 1950.
At the end of the 1947 season, AP released an unofficial post-bowl poll that was different from the regular end-of-season polls. Until college football season 1968, the final AP poll of the season was released after the end of the regular season, with the exception of the only season of 1965. In 1964, Alabama was crowned the national champion in Poll AP final after the completion of the regular season but lost at Orange Bowl to Texas, leaving Arkansas as the only unbeatable and undefeated team after Razorbacks beat Nebraska in the Cotton Bowl Classic. In 1965, the AP's decision to wait to crown his champion was expensive, as the state of Michigan was ranked the top loser of UCLA in the Rose Bowl, Arkansas number two lost to LSU in the Cotton Bowl Classic, and fourth-placed Alabama beat third-ranked Nebraska in the Orange Bowl, jumped Crimson Tide to the top of the AP poll (Michigan State was crowned national champion at the last UPI Coaches Poll, which did not conduct post-bowl polls).
Beginning in the 1968 season, post-bowl match polls became permanent and the AP championship reflected the results of bowl games. UPI did not follow suit with coach polls until the 1974 season.
No. 1 vs. No. 2
After finishing the 2015 season, the team ranked number one has faced the team ranked two ranks 50 times since the start of Poll AP in 1936. Team number one has record 28-20-2 against team number two.
Polling AP inclusion in BCS
In 1997, the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) was developed to try to unify the poll results by selecting two teams for a "real" national championship game. For the first few years, the AP Poll played a role in the ranking of BCS, along with other factors including Polls and computer-based polls. Due to a series of controversies surrounding BCS, the AP demanded in December 2004 that his polls were no longer used in the BCS rankings, so the 2004-2005 season was the last season AP Poll used for this purpose..
In the 2003 season the BCS system broke down when the BCS final standings ranked University of Southern California (USC) at No. 3 while two human polls in the system have ranked USC at No. 1. As a result, USC does not play in BCS's national championship match. After beating another high-ranking team, Michigan, in his last game, Poll AP saves USC at No. 1. 1 while the Coaches Poll is required on a contractual basis to select the winner of the BCS, Louisiana State University (LSU) match, as No. 1. 1 team. The resulting national title split is a problem created by BCS to be solved, and is widely considered embarrassing.
In 2004, a new controversy erupted at the end of the season when Auburn and Utah, both of whom finished the regular season of 12-0, abandoned the BCS game title in favor of Oklahoma. also is <12th <> 12-0 and has won convincingly over Colorado in the 12th Championship. USC went on to easily win over Oklahoma at the Orange Bowl while Auburn and Utah both won their bowl matches, leaving three unbeaten teams at the end of the season. In addition, in the same year, Texas made a base in California (Cal) in the BCS standings and as a result earned a high payout, in a big place in the Rose Bowl. Earlier for the poll, Cal had been ranked top Texas in both human polls and BCS polls. Going to their last game, the Golden Bears are made aware that while the margin of victory does not affect the computer rankings, it affects the human polls and only eight voters changing their votes can affect the top standings. Both teams won their game that week, but Texas coach Mack Brown has made a public effort to lobby his team to move higher in the rankings. When a human poll is released, Texas remains behind Cal, but it has closed the gap enough so that BCS poll (which determines the placement) puts Texas above Cal, infuriating Cal and his conference, Pac-10. The position of the last poll has not changed with Cal in No. 4 AP, No. 4 trainers, and a computer poll. 6 and Texas at No. 6 AP, No. 5 trainers, and no computer polls. 4. AP Poll voters are caught in the middle because their voice changes are automatically published, while votes from Coaches polls are kept confidential. Despite a substantial shift in the vote acquisition of the Coaches Poll, the only clear target for rabid fanatical anger is voters in the AP Poll. While officials from Cal and Pac-10 called for the coach's voices to be announced, the offer was rejected and did not solve the problem of AP voters. Cal then lost out to Texas Tech at the Holiday Bowl. Texas beat Michigan in the Rose Bowl.
Many members of the press who voted in AP Poll were upset by the controversy and, on the orders of its members, the AP requested that its polls be no longer used in the BCS rankings. The 2004 season is the last season AP Poll used in BCS rankings, replaced by the BCS equation by the newly created Harris Football College Poll.
Final AP vote
Other media polls
The AP Poll is not the only college football poll. Another major poll was the Coaches Poll, which had been sponsored by several organizations: United Press (1950-1957), United Press International (1958-1990), USA Today (1991-present), CNN (1991-1996), and ESPN 1997-2005). Having two major polls has led to many national titles being "split", in which two polls disagree on the team. 1. This has happened on eleven different occasions (1954, 1957, 1965, 1970, 1973, 1974, 1978, 1990, 1991, 1997, 2003).
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College basket
In college basketball of men and women in division I, AP Polls are mostly just a tool to compare schools throughout the season and spark debate, because it has nothing to do with the postseason game. Generally, all the top 25 teams in the poll are invited to the NCAA men's and women's basketball tournament, also known as March Madness. Polls are usually released every Monday and voter ballots are announced.
Men's basket
The AP began to rank the top 20 men's basketball teams during the 1948-1949 season. It has been issuing this poll continuously since the 1950-1951 season. In January 2018, UCLA and Duke were tied for top appearances on rankings in 134 times.
Female Women's basket
Women's basketball polls began during the 1976-1977 season, and were originally compiled by Mel Greenberg and published by The Philadelphia Inquirer. Initially, it was a poll of trainers conducted over the phone, where the coaches identified top teams and the resulting Top 20 team list. The initial list of coaches did not include Pat Summitt, who requested to join the group, not to improve his ratings, but due to the lack of media coverage, Summitt believes it would be a good way to stay on top of who the top teams are outside of their own schedule. The contributors continued to coach until 1994, when the AP took over the voting administration from Greenberg, and switched to the author's panel. In 1994, Tennessee started out as No. 1 in a poll with Connecticut at No. 1. 4. After loss by No. 2 and No. 3 teams, Tennessee and Connecticut ranked No. 1. 1 and No. 2, to the showdown, scheduled as a special event on Martin Luther King's day, the only women's basketball game scheduled for the day. Due to the unusual circumstances, a decision was made to postpone AP's vote for one day, to ensure it would happen after the game. Connecticut won the game, and moved to first place in an AP poll, which was published on Tuesday for the only time. (Connecticut went on to complete an unbeatable season.) During the polls' history, more than 255 coaches have had teams represented in the polls.
NFL football
Starting in 2012, the AP began to issue a weekly pro football rankings, AP Pro32 ranking.
See also
References
External links
- The Associated Press Top 25 College Football Polls at The Associated Press
- The Associated Press Top 25 Men's Basketball Basketball Column at The Associated Press
- AP Voting Information Index by Voters and Team for Men's Soccer/Basketball
- AP AP Footer AP
- AP Male Polling Basketball Player
- Archive of all AP weekly polls for men's and women's soccer and basketball
- List all the AP results of the final soccer and champions foot
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