AP Football Poll History

Great info from ACC Football RX



Most Weeks at #1

Rank	Team	Weeks	First	Latest
1	Ohio State	105	1942	2015
2	Oklahoma	101	1950	2011
3	Notre Dame	98	1938	2012
4	USC	91	1939	2012
5	Alabama	73	1961	2014
6	Florida State	72	1988	2014
7	Nebraska	70	1965	2000
8	Miami	68	1983	2002
9	Texas	45	1941	2008
10	Florida	41	1985	2009
11	Michigan	34	1947	1997
12	LSU	30	1958	2011
13	Michigan State	29	1951	1966
14	Army	27	1944	1958
15	Penn State	21	1978	1997
	Pittsburgh	21	1937	1982
16	Tennessee	19	1939	1998
17	Minnesota	18	1936	1960
19	Georgia	15	1942	2008
	Washington	15	1982	1992
21	Iowa	11	1960	1985
22	Auburn	9	1957	2010
23	Oregon	8	2010	2012
24	Clemson	7	1981	2015
	Colorado	7	1989	1990
	Syracuse	7	1959	1960
	UCLA	7	1954	1988
28	Maryland	6	1953	1955
	Texas AM	6	1939	1957
29	Ole Miss	5	1960	1968
	Mississippi State	5	2014	2014
	Northwestern	5	1936	1962
	Purdue	5	1968	1968
33	BYU	4	1984	1984
	California	4	1937	1951
	Cornell†	4	1940	1940
37	Virginia	3	1990	1990
38	Missouri	2	1960	2008
	SMU	2	1950	1950
	TCU	2	1938	1938
41	Arkansas	1	1965	1965
	Boston College	1	1942	1942
	North Carolina	1	1948	1948
	Wisconsin	1	1952	1952

OK, so only three of these teams have been ranked #1 since joining the ACC - Clemson, Florida State, and Virginia. UNC's #1 was before the ACC was formed. BC, Syracuse, Pittsburgh and Miami all reached the top before joining the conference, and Notre Dame still hasn't joined for football...

Still pretty cool to have 8 teams with this kind of football history, and a scheduling agreement with a 9th such team.

UPDATED 12/9/2015 with 2015 data from Winsipedia."

Most Weeks in AP, 1-50

"Sticking to the AP Poll history theme, here are the top 50 teams in terms of most weeks in the poll.

Rank	Team	Weeks
1	Ohio State	853
2	Michigan	806
3	Oklahoma	782
4	Notre Dame	766
5	Alabama	742
5	USC	742
7	Nebraska	716
8	Texas	702
9	Penn State	591
10	LSU	574
11	Tennessee	567
12	Florida	566
13	Georgia	542
14	Florida State	538
15	Auburn	533
16	UCLA	531
17	Miami (FL)	460
18	Arkansas	411
19	Washington	399
20	Texas AM	394
21	Clemson	386
22	Michigan State	374
23	Wisconsin	335
24	Georgia Tech	307
24	Iowa	307
26	Pittsburgh	294
27	Colorado	293
28	Arizona State	280
28	Ole Miss	280
30	Oregon	276
31	Virginia Tech	274
32	Stanford	272
32	West Virginia	272
34	Missouri	253
35	BYU	242
36	North Carolina	238
37	Purdue	237
38	TCU	219
39	Oklahoma State	211
40	Kansas State	208
41	California	197
41	Syracuse	197
43	Maryland	192
44	Baylor	188
45	South Carolina	186
46	Houston	183
47	Illinois	181
48	Mississippi State	180
49	Duke	172
50	Northwestern	171

BOTTOM LINE: 9 current ACC teams make the top 50 all-time, plus both of the former ACC teams and the one partial member. What about the other 5 teams? I'll have that in part two..."