Southern Fans' College Poll
- Southern Fans' College Poll
The Southern Fans' College Football Poll refers to a weekly ranking of the top 16 NCAA Division I college football and Division I teams. The rankings are compiled by polling a dedicated group of college football supporters across the Southeastern United States. Each voter provides his own ranking of the top 16 teams, and the individual rankings are then combined to produce the national ranking by giving a team 16 points for a first place vote, 15 for a second place vote, and so on down to 1 point for a sixteenth-place vote. Ballots of the voting members in the Southern Fans' Poll are [http://scfpoll.blogspot.com/ made public] .
College football
The Southern Fans' college football poll has a short history. The Southern Fans began running their own poll to determine who was, by popular opinion, the best football team in the country at the end of the season. While other polls presently list 25 teams in their respective polls, the Southern Fans' Poll includes only the top 16 teams in the country. This is to focus attention to primarily the top teams in the country, make inclusion in the rankings more awarding (while limiting the number of teams that can claim to have been ranked) and is also a hark to most collegiate fans' push for a playoff.
The poll began during the 2007 college football season, with the national champion named in the final poll following the BCS National Championship game. As the Southern Fans' College Football Poll is an independent poll, the pollsters are not required to vote the winner BCS National Championship as their number one team. Even as this is the case, it did not stop pollsters from naming LSU the nation's number one team following the Tigers' win over Ohio State in the 2008 BCS National Championship Game.
Historical Polls
Since the beginning of the 2007 college football season, the number one ranked team has never faced the number two in the Southern Fans' College Football Poll.[AP No. 1 vs. No. 2 games. Associated Press, August 13, 2008] Through the 2008 season, only three teams have been ranked in every Southern Fans' College Football Poll since its inception in 2007:]
*LSU
*Oklahoma
*FloridaTeams that had been ranked for at least one week through Week 6 of the 2008 season:MultiColAlabama
Arizona State
Auburn
Boise State
Boston College
BYU
California
Clemson
Connecticut
East Carolina
Florida
Georgia
Georgia Tech
Hawaii
Illinois
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisvile
LSU
Michigan
Missouri
Nebraska
Ohio State
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Oregon
Penn State
Rutgers
South Carolina
South Florida
Southern Cal
Tennessee
Texas
Texas Tech
UCLA
Utah
Vanderbilt
Virginia
Virginia Tech
Wake Forest
West Virginia
Wisconsin
This chart below shows the Southern Fans' No. 1 ranked team for every weekly poll.
See also
*Bowl Championship Series
*Coaches Poll
*Dickinson System
*Game of the Century (college football)
*Grantland Rice Award
*Harris Interactive College Football Poll
*Mythical National Championship
*NCAA Division I-A national football championship
References
External links
* [http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/ncaa/polls/ap/ The Associated Press Top 25 College Football Poll] at Sports Illustrated
* [http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/ncaa/men/polls/ap/ The Associated Press Top 25 Men's College Basketball Poll] at Sports Illustrated
* [http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/national_championships/ap_poll.php?year=1934 List of all Final AP Poll] results and champions
* [http://www.appollarchive.com/ Weekly AP football polls from 1936-present]
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