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Here's the all-time UPI/Coaches Poll Preseason Top 25 rankings
Posted on 8/19/23 at 6:42 pm
Posted on 8/19/23 at 6:42 pm
From College Football News.....
The scoring system gives every UPI/USA TODAY-ranked preseason No. 1 team 25 points, the No. 2 team 24, No. 3 23, and so on down to the bottom of the top 20 in the early years, and then it became the top 25 later on.
The UPI rankings began in 1951 (AP in 1936); however, they did not begin their Preseason Top 25 rankings until 1978 (the AP began theirs in 1950). The USAToday took over the rankings in 1991.
[For the majority of you SECranters, you're way too young to know the history of polls and how they were conducted as well as their influence upon the season's rankings.
A little bit of a history lesson fer ya (no charge, it's free): preseason rankings used to be everything in the national championship chase.]
For the most part – back in the poll-and-bowl era – if you were ranked in the preseason top five or so and kept on winning, that was it. You were locked in. It was a brutally flawed system – as opposed to the current one that’s just painfully flawed – in lieu of any playoff format to determine a champion.
Most of college football’s national champions were based on nothing more than a belief of a voting base that didn’t have access to more than a few games a week. Even worse, the bowl games weren’t taken into account in the national championship voting until 1968 for the AP and 1974 for the Coaches Poll.
So, with the release of the 2023 Preseason Coaches Rankings which have already been factored in, here's the UPI/USA Today/Coaches rankings of ALL-TIME...........
1 -- Ohio State 768
2 -- OKLAHOMA 766
3 -- Florida State 701
4 -- Michigan 691
5 -- ALABAMA 687
6 -- Nebraska 588
7 -- USC 570
8 -- Notre Dame 555
9 -- GEORGIA 543
T10 -- Penn State 540, TEXAS 540
12 -- FLORIDA 516
13 -- LSU 500
14 -- Miami (FL) 491
15 -- Clemson 435
16 -- AUBURN 410
17 -- Washington 378
18 -- TENNESSEE 357
19 -- TEXAS A&M 332
20 -- UCLA 295
21 -- Wisconsin 260
22 -- Oregon 253
23 -- Virginia Tech 220
24 -- Iowa 189
The scoring system gives every UPI/USA TODAY-ranked preseason No. 1 team 25 points, the No. 2 team 24, No. 3 23, and so on down to the bottom of the top 20 in the early years, and then it became the top 25 later on.
The UPI rankings began in 1951 (AP in 1936); however, they did not begin their Preseason Top 25 rankings until 1978 (the AP began theirs in 1950). The USAToday took over the rankings in 1991.
[For the majority of you SECranters, you're way too young to know the history of polls and how they were conducted as well as their influence upon the season's rankings.
A little bit of a history lesson fer ya (no charge, it's free): preseason rankings used to be everything in the national championship chase.]
For the most part – back in the poll-and-bowl era – if you were ranked in the preseason top five or so and kept on winning, that was it. You were locked in. It was a brutally flawed system – as opposed to the current one that’s just painfully flawed – in lieu of any playoff format to determine a champion.
Most of college football’s national champions were based on nothing more than a belief of a voting base that didn’t have access to more than a few games a week. Even worse, the bowl games weren’t taken into account in the national championship voting until 1968 for the AP and 1974 for the Coaches Poll.
So, with the release of the 2023 Preseason Coaches Rankings which have already been factored in, here's the UPI/USA Today/Coaches rankings of ALL-TIME...........
1 -- Ohio State 768
2 -- OKLAHOMA 766
3 -- Florida State 701
4 -- Michigan 691
5 -- ALABAMA 687
6 -- Nebraska 588
7 -- USC 570
8 -- Notre Dame 555
9 -- GEORGIA 543
T10 -- Penn State 540, TEXAS 540
12 -- FLORIDA 516
13 -- LSU 500
14 -- Miami (FL) 491
15 -- Clemson 435
16 -- AUBURN 410
17 -- Washington 378
18 -- TENNESSEE 357
19 -- TEXAS A&M 332
20 -- UCLA 295
21 -- Wisconsin 260
22 -- Oregon 253
23 -- Virginia Tech 220
24 -- Iowa 189
This post was edited on 8/19/23 at 6:45 pm
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Posted on 8/19/23 at 6:50 pm to JetDawg
There was no real NC until the playoffs. Heck, the bowls and polls were better than the ridiculous BCS. That was the worst system ever implemented in any sport to determine a NC. In my opinion, the SEC champion was the closest thing to a real natty there was until the playoffs.
Posted on 8/19/23 at 6:52 pm to Darindawg
Posted on 8/19/23 at 9:12 pm to WilliamTaylor21
Damn 2 back to back UGA Nattys have broken you.
Posted on 8/19/23 at 9:33 pm to muttenstein
He was broken long before then
Posted on 8/19/23 at 11:20 pm to muttenstein
Wait until it's three.
Posted on 8/20/23 at 12:15 am to Darindawg
The SEC is better than the NC if you ask me
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