AP Top 25 Reality Check: How will final AP poll teams look heading into 2024 season?

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.

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.

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

Reality Check believes the AP poll voters did OK with the head-to-head results this week, but had a few complaints.

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?

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.

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

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

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

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

Tim Lester replaces coach Kirk Ferentz's son, Brian Ferentz, as offensive coordinator at Iowa.