AP Top 25 Reality Check: How much weight to give head-to-head games?

Former UW-Whitewater coach Lance Leipold has turned around what was the worst Power Five program, making the Jayhawks bowl eligible for the se…

Can the Wolverines become the first team from outside the Deep South to hold the top spot in the rankings since Ohio State in 2015?

The seventh-ranked Nittany Lions lost a seventh straight game to Ohio State, needing more than 59 minutes to finally get into the end zone aga…

For the first time this season, more than one team that plays in a non-Power Five conference is ranked in The Associated Press college football poll.

Imagine football without the kick. No. 8 Oregon and No. 7 Washington gave a glimpse into that world Saturday in what might go down as the game…

In the final Red River Rivalry in the Big 12 before it moves to the Southeastern Conference, second-year Oklahoma coach Brent Venables got his…

Perfect starts by Texas and Oklahoma have set up the 43rd meeting between the Red River Rivals where both teams will be ranked.

Georgia (5-0) extended its school-record winning streak to 22 games at Auburn on Saturday, but the Bulldogs again didn't look much like the cl…

Six teams received a first-place vote in this week's AP Top 25 poll, the most during the regular season since November 2015.

A Statement Saturday in September that featured six games matching ranked teams was the first chance to make some sense of the season. Here's …

There was a time when that threesome practically ruled the sport. As recently as 2000, the Seminoles, Hurricanes and Gators all finished in th…

No. 10 Alabama, which went through two quarterbacks and needed almost three quarters just to get into the end zone at South Florida, was unrec…

Reality check is in no rush to declare the dynasty dead, but it is fair to say that Alabama is in a rut.

In their final season as a member of the Big 12, the Longhorns made a statement against Alabama with the biggest victory of Steve Sarkisian's …

A separation weekend in the Big 12 and Southeastern Conference turned into a survive-and-advance Saturday around college football. It's Novemb…

After USC and Kansas State dropped out of the AP top 25 Sunday, 18 teams  ranked now also were ranked in the preseason.

The Crimson Tide have won eight straight since losing to Texas at home in Week 2, and Jalen Milroe has gone from benched to possible Heisman T…

The two-time defending national champions have been No. 1 all season, but it has been a methodical ramp up to Death Star mode for the Bulldogs…

With just three more AP Top 25s to go, 42 teams have spent at least one week in the poll. From 2018-22, the average was 50 teams.

For the first time in more than 14 years, the same eight teams held the top eight spots in the poll for five straight weeks.

After two seasons in which there was record turnover from start to finish in the poll, 17 teams that began the season ranked in the Top 25 fin…