Welcome to College Football Polls

Because unlike every other colligate sport and every other division of college football, division one college football does not have a playoff system, and thus does not have an officially recognized national champion, the polls are all that we have. 

Most would agree, a playoff system would be best, but the "plus one" which is coming in 2010 is better than the current state. It is really a four team playoff. Nevertheless, getting into that playoff will have much to do with the polls.

Here at College Football Polls, you can check on the latest college football polls and see the history of past polls.

Asscoated Press College Football Poll

AP college football poll has a long history. Due to the long-standing historical ties between individual college football conferences and high-paying bowl games like the Rose Bowl and Orange Bowl, the NCAA has never held a tournament or championship game to determine the champion of what is now the highest division, NCAA Division I-A (the lower divisions do hold championship tournaments). As a result, the news media began running their own polls of sports writers to determine who was, by popular opinion, the best football team in the country at the end of the season. One of the earliest such polls was the AP College Football Poll, first run in 1934 and then continuously from 1936. The public and the media began to take the leading vote-getter in the final AP Poll as the national champion for that season. read more

AP Week 1 Poll | AP Week 2 Poll | AP Week 3 Poll | AP WEEK 4 POlL | AP WK 5 POlL | AP WK 6 Poll | AP WK 7 Poll

USA Today Coach's Football Poll

Beginning in the 1974 season, the poll of coaches conducted its final poll after the bowl games for the first time. In 1991, USA Today and CNN took over publishing the coaches' football poll. In 1997, ESPN took the place of CNN as co-sponsor. Finally, following the 2005 season, as a result of controversial voting practices related to the BCS, ESPN dropped its co-sponsorship of the football poll, leaving USA Today as the sole sponsor.^[3]

Although the coaches' football poll is often generally in accord with the AP Poll, there are important differences. Eleven times the Coaches Poll has crowned a different national champion...  read more

Coach's Week 1 Poll | Coach's Week 2 Poll | Coach's Week 3 Poll |Coach's Week 4 Poll |Coach's Week 5 Poll |Coach's Week 6 Poll |Coach's Week 7 Poll

Morris Football Poll

The Morris Poll is a computer generated composite poll made up of four inputs.  The  average of the AP poll and the Coach's Poll are weighted 40% of the total.

A computer algorithm which generates power ratings of each Division 1 team is also 40% of the total. These power ratings are formulated to not only reflect the wins and loses of each team, but also the strength for their competition to sixteen levels. The mathematics behind the power ratings are a closely guarded secret because historically they can predict the outcome of a particular game to such a high degree of accuracy that it would undermine the game... read more

Morris Week 1 Poll | Morris Week 2 Poll | Morris Week 3 Poll | Morris Week 4 Poll | Morris Week 5 Poll | Morris Week 6 Poll | Morris Week 7 Poll

Other Division 1 Football Polls

Harris Interactive College Football Poll - the  Top 25 results compiled from rankings submitted by the Harris Interactive panel of former coaches, players and

administrators, and current and former members of the media.

Jeff Sagarin NCAA football ratings

Billingsley Report on Major College Football

Colley's Bias Free College Football Rankings

Massey College Football Ratings

FOUNDATION FOR THE ANALYSIS OF COMPETITIONS AND TOURNAMENTS ("FACT")

 

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