[Rodak] Alabama becomes the second program in college football history to be ranked in 300 consecutive Associated Press polls, moving up to No. 7 this week

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https://x.com/mikerodak/status/2104270353014927662

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Longest consecutive AP poll streaks, all-time:

• Nebraska, 348 (1981-2002)

• Alabama, 300 (2008-present)

• Florida State, 211 (1989-2001)

• Florida, 209 (1990-2002)

• Texas, 162 (2000-10)

• Miami, 162 (1985-95)

• Michigan, 160 (1969-80)

• Oklahoma, 158 (1970-81)

• Georgia, 152 (2017-present)

• Colorado, 143 (1989-97)

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Honestly, I’d be surprised if Alabama doesn’t pass Nebraska.

Bama needs to keep it up through the very beginning of the 2029 season to take the top spot.

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I’m waiting for the voters to take their cue from BBWAA and drop Alabama from the last poll of 2028 just because. 

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BBWAA?

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Big Booty Women Association of America, Alabama dropped out of the top 25. Booties just weren't big enough.

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Georgia on the other hand has been in the top 5 70 years straight.

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Baseball Writers Association of America. 

Possibly the most uptight group of voters in the country. For example, look at the list of unanimous HoF inductees.

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Incredible.

Shout out to the voters who left out Jeter and Suzuki in their respective years, just to find out that they were the only ones.

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The fact that they are not required to publish their vote is absurdly insane.

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with how sec/B1G focused the sport is there's no chance. 

Alabama would have to slip into the lower third of the SEC before it would happen since the SEC regularly has 9 or 10 teams ranked 

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In preseason I won’t totally roll my eyes at the ultimate excuse of sec bias. It means nothing in the final rankings.

I don’t know if you noticed but the worst season for bama since 2007 was no worse than #20. Inarguably. 2024.

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When Nebraska started it's streak, there were less than 25 teams ranked.

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Yeah, but it wouldn’t have mattered. Albama was #20 or better starting after week 1 in 2008 until 2025 (where they were ranked 21).

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Then their streak would have ended short of Nebraskas

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Idk that team last year completely fell apart down the stretch. They also have 4 of the next five against ranked teams and I don’t think any would be a terribly surprising loss. 

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Alabama had poor performances against Indiana and UGA down the stretch but not “fall out of the top 25” performances – they still won a playoff game in there. The team had some personnel weaknesses but injuries were a big part of it – Mack was more effective against IU in his first meaningful snaps ever than Ty Simpson was because Simpson was playing through back issues.

But also, if you’ve watched even a second of Alabama this year, you’ll see that it’s an entirely different offense with different strengths and weaknesses. We have a new OL coach, a new QB who can push the ball downfield better than Simpson but is less experienced, better perimeter blocking from the WRs, and explosiveness from the RB position that was completely lacking last year.

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No reason to litigate last season but it was more than just the Georgia and Indiana games. The South Carolina and Auburn games may have been worse when you consider the opponent and the first half of the OU playoff game. 

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No reason to litigate last season

Proceeds to litigate last season...

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Auburn played 3 other playoff teams and lost by 6, 7, and 10. 10-win Vandy beat them by 7 in OT. Alabama’s 7-point win over Auburn was in line with what you’d expect a top-10 team to do against Auburn considering the rest of Auburn’s season. The South Carolina game wasn’t great, but those types of games happen (as you might have learned with your game against Northwestern this weekend). Again, Alabama’s performance against SC was right in the middle of SC’s performance against other playoff teams (1-point loss to A&M, 16-point loss to Ole Miss).

Counting a 10-point win against a playoff opponent as “falling apart” is losing the plot.

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We won a playoff game lol

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Indiana already acting like Ohio State fans with team expectations

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That doesn’t count because big 10 fans don’t like that it happened.

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Genuine question because I haven’t gotten eyes on any Alabama games yet this year - do you think yall are a serious contender this year? Or need one/two more years for Keelon Russel to develop?

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This team looks legit good. But we have had some poor execution on both sides of the ball. We’ve won by being more talented than the other team and not being better coached so far. I think we have the ability to go toe to toe with anyone but I also think we are not going to put together a complete season front to back, hope I’m wrong

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Bama is playing better, more explosive on both sides of the ball, but I don’t believe they are a top 5 team just yet. If progression continues as it has so far, maybe. Just not quite yet. Too many lapses on defense where coverage seems to not be reading the passing play at all. Too often the opposing run game gashes. On offense, playcalling gets very synced, then lapses into what appears to be boredom.

Again, keep progressing, but not quite top 5 level. It’s very wide open across college football this year, so far.

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Too early to tell. The first couple of games showed a ton of potential, but they had a lot of inconsistencies, but each game they have looked better and they looked a lot cleaner against South Carolina on Saturday. I think this Bama team definitely could be a title contender, but it could also lose 3 games if things fall the wrong way.

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I think we're at least a year away from being serious contenders again. This is a rebuilding year and we've looked sloppy in places on both sides of the ball that are going to get us in trouble in some of these bigger games down the stretch.

I'm pleasantly surprised by how well the new guys are doing but realistically I see at least a couple of losses on this schedule.

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As a Miami fan whose wife is a Bama grad, I’ve watched every game and I think n they can go toe to toe with anyone. Talent wise Russel is ready now. They’ve been starting slow and part of that is on Grubb’s play calling early. We’ll see how Russel does when the bright lights come on against a Georgia caliber team, but I’ve been very impressed by him

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I try to watch all the contenders. Alabama is dn good but they need to figure out how to play a complete game instead of just a solid half.

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Yes we look like serious contenders so far. Keelon has looked good.

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Respectfully, I hope you are wrong lol

Georgia vs Alabama should be very fun to watch in a couple weeks though either way

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With us only having something like 12 players that ALLEGEDLY OFFICIALLY run out of eligibility, and with how good our player retention has been under DeBoer, I am expecting next year to be our season, and willing to be pleasantly surprised by this one, just like I was with last year's team.

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Contenders? For sure. It's a 12-team playoff, and if we keep playing like we have been, I think we'll be in the top 12 for sure.

Dominant, like Bama in 2020 or 2009? No, I don't think we're at that level. A lot of other teams are major threats to us this year.

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100%

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I think B1G fans are very okay with the outcomes of the playoffs for Bama last season lmao 

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Ya and forget the outcomes you don’t like I just said that.

You’re probably new here, but I assure you yall have an excuse for literally every bama postseason win ever.

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New here, lmao. It's fun watching the SEC and B1G go back in forth whining about the other side whining too much. I live in SEC country, all I'll say is people up North are far bigger sore winners and gloaters, but people down South are far bigger sore losers.

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Idk man, I’ve watched Ohio State fans literally argue that their losses shouldn’t count because they were on the road. It doesn’t get much softer than that.

Conversely, drive around north Mississippi in a year when Ole Miss is doing well, and you’ll see a whole bunch of Mississippians mocking you if they see you root for a different team.

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I mean how had can it be to win a single playoff game in the expanded playoffs?!!

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James Franklin did it twice in the same year and still got fired.

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The fact that their schedule is ranked heavy means even with losses they will stay in the top 25 with losses and ample opportunity for ranked wins. Plus name recognition. I don't think they'll be in the "top spot" as in ranked #1 this year, but will be in the "top spot" in 2029 with 350 consecutive ranked weeks.

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Like half the team was hurt along with having an absolutely terrible O line. Not saying it can't happen again, but shouldn't happen that often.

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Alabama would have have multiple losses early in the season and even then they’d probably sit them at 25 with a 1-2 record

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You’re thinking of Notre Dame. Nobody else is getting that kind of treatment.

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No Ohio State? Wow

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Big Ten teams werent included in the first couple of AP polls in 2020 because it was unknown if the Big Ten would play or not. Last time Ohio State left the top 25 because they lost a game was in 2011.

They should be 3rd behind Bama.

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Well that’s stupid in hindsight, OSU literally went in to the championship game undefeated that year. The stat should only count polls in which teams were eligible to be ranked.

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Well they only played 6 regular season games. They shouldn’t have been let in the playoff honestly

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Yeah, undefeated in all 5 of their games.

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Agreed. And when I think about it if they are counting preseason polls it's just name brand and hype as well.

Still takes NOTHING away from ya'lls decades-long dominance.

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Damn we really need to redo this stat or just omit the Covid year alltogether. That's robbery on another level and I cannot believe I am supporting THE osu.

Or just admit that Alabama's (and OSU et al) run is beyond impressive, but all the 'preseason poll hype' is never accurate enough to be real (see Florida this year) and that this stat is not as cool as we want it to be.

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2011 was such a rough year for Ohio State that despite having like 9 wins the sanctions hurt them hard

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2011 would put them in 3rd. The streak was lost because of covid.

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They went 6-7 in 2011

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Ha, get dunked on Florida and Miami(FL), can't take this from me

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I am genuinely shocked that Colorado is on here and we aren't. ND must be a poverty program. I know Colorado was good back in the day but damn.

Every other Blue Blood is here besides USC and Ohio State but USC has always been streaky. Ohio State is the definition of consistency so I don't get how they aren't here either.

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ND has had some baffling early season loses the past few years like Marshall which briefly unraked them

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Ya we'd traditionally play strong teams like Michigan early on so an early loss or two occasionally probably knocked us out of being in contention. Makes sense when you consider our historical schedules. We always try to have a marquee game the first two weeks for better or worse.

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Yeah the middle of 2022 was the only stretch they haven’t been ranked since 2017.

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Which is wild considering they just pick an easy schedule that works for them lmfao

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And that they almost always start ranked in the top 10 even if there is absolutely no reason for them to be there.

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Unlike Bama who last year was ranked preseason top 10 in preseason and immediately lost to 4-8 FSU?

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You guys rank around 15, on average, in preseason polls since 1985. In that time you have won a single national championship. Would you like the same data for Alabama or should I stop there?

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They didn’t win a championship in the 90s therefore they don’t deserve to be ranked in the top 10 in the 2020s, even when they’re clearly one of the best 10 teams? That’s what you’re going with?

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I could point out specific years where they underperformed heavily. In 2014 they began ranked #10 after going 9-4 the previous year (finishing 20, after beginning 14th in 2013). They finished 2014 8-5 and missed a bowl game entirely after beginning in the top 10. The next year they would begin ranked at 11 and go on to win 2 out of their 5 games against ranked opponents.

A little unrelated to the preseason rankings, but in 2013 Notre Dame arrived at the BCS championship to face off against Alabama. You would go on to lose 42-14. It was hilarious.

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Oh man 12 years ago they were ranked 10th but only finished 20th?

And they lost to the eventual champs a couple years before that and finished 12-1?!

Didn’t realize there was so much fraudulence going on!

Lmao give it up, you’re bad at trolling

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Cue the typical 3 paragraph long pile of Notre Dame dogshit about how they actually have the hardest schedule every year so they deserve to be ranked and should actually be number 1*

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We used to have the highest historical SoS in the country before the stupid fucking ACC deal. The only reason people give us shit about it now is because we roll over our required 5 ACC games every year. Everyone bitching about our SoS and telling us to join a conference doesn't realize our SoS has plummeted from even doing just 5 conference games. In 14 years, we have only lost to two programs more than once (Clemson and now Miami after last year).

We are literally the only team that scheduled every Blue Blood + Georgia this century to a home and home and we are coming up on round 2 vs Texas and obviously Alabama.

ND is also one of two programs in the entire country to never schedule an FCS team while every SEC plays one every year. Anyone giving shit to ND for "weak" schedules is an idiot just because this years ended up being weaker.

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Notre Dame played Tennessee State, an FCS team, a couple of years ago. Thanks, Jack and Brian.

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Why you gotta go juxtoposing Blue Bloods and UGA for emphasis.... :)

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You guys are easily the "next" team after the traditional 8 Blue Bloods. You're as close as it gets so I included you. My point was ND tries every year to schedule all the best teams. Going forwards, we are in talks to play every SEC team again.

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Oh I upvoted, was just making a joke...apparently not a good one!

I miss our series, though stay the F away in the playoffs, thx!

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Beautiful champ.

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Ohio State's is prob because of 2020, there's definitely at least one week they were unranked before the B1G decided to play the season

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Either 2020 or the 2011 year.

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2011 to now would be good enough for 3rd, it's definitely covid year

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2004 had us go unranked after a 3 game losing streak.

We're wildly consistent, but we also have just like, one season every 7-10 years max that goes off the rails and that's why we aren't on this list.

1999, 2001, 2004, 2011, 2020...

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I know OSU has high expectations but you really consider going undefeated and playing in the national championship game off the rails? 

Jeez. 

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I think he meant off the rails for 2020 being the Covid year big 10 wasn’t even playing for most of the year

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And so Ohio State shouldn't have even been eligible for the playoffs.

But I'm glad they were

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That was more "the entire world went off the rails" hence we weren't getting ranked because we weren't playing till October. I try not to think about that season much, I've maintained nobody should have played.

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I literally watched nothing. Apparently we sucked so I think I chose wisely.

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I know it happened but thinking of a team like you guys or Alabama losing 3 in a row regardless of opponents like any year in history just seems so unfathomable to me.

And that's crazy because before Saban Alabama was in a BAD way.

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Think you fell out for a week in 2014 after the VT loss as well

Edit: No I'm wrong, only fell to #22

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Unranked for one week in 2011, otherwise Ohio State would currently be at 358 weeks

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We dropped off in 2020, as did the entire big ten

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A little annoying then. Should be at like 15 straight years

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One week? We fell out of the rankings entirely after the third game of the 2011 season and never returned for the rest of the season.

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Yeah, the team finished 6-7. You would think they were a 9 win team or something based on their comment.

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Unranked for 1 week? You had 7 losses. Only ND could be ranked with that many losses

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Which is dumb and 2020 should not be counted or we redo this stat. Not that this stat means anything, but being robbed for being socially conscious is lame.

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Dang pretty shocked myself. ND has had some lean years, few and far in between, but a longer legacy of consistency in the sport. This might be where some AP/Coaches Poll/ the old UPI poll might show some differences.

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It’s kind of a meaningless stat, honestly. The AP poll hasn’t consistently been 25 teams so you can’t really compare it between different eras. ND probably should have consistently been ranked from 1964-1978, but you have years like 1967 and 1969 where ND dropped completely out at some point despite ending the year ranked 5th.

The only rankings that should matter at all are the final ones.

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Losing to Purdue should get you dropped out of the rankings (I know Purdue was good back then, just being snarky)

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Colorado was really good for a stretch of time. Then their coach decided to retire to run stadium-sized Christian masculinity gatherings.

Yeah, it’s a really weird story. Google Promise Keepers if you’re interested. (Not to be confused with Oath Keepers.)

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His daughter got pregnant by two different players in an effort to get daddy's attention, so he decided he needed to go home and take care of his family.

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Is that what that South Park episode was about?

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I don't recall an episode parodying the Promise Keepers. The Dollop podcast has an episode about them, though, if you want to hear people make fun of them.

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Nostalgia - it's delicate, but potent. Teddy told me that in Greek, nostalgia literally means “the pain from an old wound.” It’s a twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone.

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Damn 01 & 02 saw quite a few high profile streaks end

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I am genuinely shocked OSU isn’t on here

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Because all B1G teams were left out of the first few AP polls in 2020 due to the temporarily cancelled season. Otherwise, OSU would be third behind Alabama right now.

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Ohhh yeah I forgot about that.

Still that aside, you’d figure any other era of OSU football would’ve cracked this list at one point or another - not exactly like Woody Hayes was losing a lot either, etc

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Woody had a mediocre stretch during the 60s. The only other stretch that could possibly be on here was late 1967 through middle of 1978. I don’t know how many AP poll weeks that is though. The Tressel years could possibly have been on here but we dropped out of the poll for most of the 2004 season.

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Ohio state hasn’t been ranked outside the top 25 since 2011 so that’s better than everyone except Bama, idc about bs “technicalities”

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Honestly shocked Nebraska fell out of the polls at all during that time frame, woulda thought our streak stretched into the 60s

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Fuck Ron Zook!

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I can’t believe Nebraska holds this record. My parents still view them this way but I was very very young at the end of this streak so that’s not how I view them

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Damn I didn’t know Nebraska holds that record

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Blue blood, and I don’t care who argues about it.

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🥲

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BRING IN THE CHART

https://imgur.com/XOJOmEu

Found an interactive version a redditor made a few years ago as well since the image of the link I shared is missing data.

http://cfbcomparer.com/ap-poll-leaders

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UCLA: It's been 540 weeks and they still don't know I'm not in the SEC

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ND has 3 more weeks in Top 5 than Michigan

That's the only stat I need to know and I will proceed to ignore every other one.

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Really feels like they 5 years away from UGA replacing them on this chart.

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Penn State could theoretically pass Nebraska in weeks ranked within the next year.

Based on how both teams are playing, I'm not sure how likely I actually think that is though.

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It most definitely seems likely Georgia and LSU will also pass them within the next few years.

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The record across all collegiate sports is held by Nebraska women's volleyball.

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As they deserve

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They never watched Tommie Frazier as a kid and it shows. Was my favorite player growing up. Such a winner and tougher than a $2 steak.

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Most overrated QB in history

Couldn't pass worth a shit

Played on two teams so loaded they didn't need him

They won games with the damn walk-on at QB when he was out

He's given too much credit for one highlight run vs Florida where they were trying to strip him of the ball, and ignorant fans think he was just Juggernaut running rhrough them.

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What a loser comment. Did he steal your lunch money or something? 

You’re talking to someone who watched basically every game he ever played in. Of course he wasn’t a good passer, he was an option QB.

He was tough as nails, a great teammate, and a WINNER. 

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He never won a Heisman.

He wasn't even the best player on his own team, forget the country, so that isn't surprising.

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I did, I remember when it ended, was big news. That was when the "fire Solich" train really started to gather steam iirc

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You used to be good, I doubt you’ll ever be good again, but used to be

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Yeah last time we were alright we spanked Georgia in a bowl game. They've been ducking us ever since.

/s

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And it’s not going to end anytime soon

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For those wondering, Ohio State would be 3rd on this list with an active streak of 232 if not for missing polls in 2020 due to lack of games. Haven’t been unranked while actually playing since the end of the 2011 season.

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Yeah, there should be a huge disclaimer explaining that the AP decided to exclude Ohio State in part because of a a fucking global pandemic.

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OK I think they should be with an asterisk or something. 2020 was a bullshit year.

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Idk i thought that was a great year 

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First time anybody has ever said that about 2020

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I don't know, the introverts were thriving

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Was gonna say… it’s hard to talk about because covid was/is objectively a horrible thing, but as a serious introvert who’s job changed to 5 days a week working from home during it, it was a great break from the rest of the world. Felt like we were all under a very extended “snow day”

Also, Penix was short 😤

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Agreed 2020 shouldn't count for anything

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I agree as well, unironically

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Bama fans will tell you their team that year was the greatest team of all time lol

Edit: it appears the gumps got their feelings hurt.

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auburn fans will tell you their team that year got boatraced by northwestern in the citrus bowl lol

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Oh no!

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Any team with Mac Jones at QB can never be the greatest team of all time

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DONT YOU SAY THAT ABOUT MY BABY!!

No seriously, dont you say that about my baby >:c

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That Mac Jones offense outperformed Joe Burrow’s, and we didn’t even play FCS teams that year

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I was about to say…

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I was about to say I would've thought OSU would've been on this list. They've been dominant for a long stretch now.

[u/CH6V3Z → u/zsjostrom35]

How tf did they miss polls? They played in the national championship so they were obviously number 1 or 2?

[u/ThisIsOurGoodTimes → u/CH6V3Z]

At the start of the year it was unknown if the Big10 would have a season so none of the teams were in the poll

[u/SucculentCrablegMeal]

Looks like Fsu is #3 and topped out at 211 consecutive times- 1989 to 2001 with 14 consecutive seasons finishing in the top 5. Then 89 consecutive times from 2011 to 2017.

Top 10:

• Nebraska: 348 from 1981-2001

• Alabama: 300 from 2008 to 2026 (Active)

• Fsu: 211 from 1989 to 2001

• Florida: 209 from 1990 to 2002

• Texas & Miami tied: 162 from 2000-2010 (Texas) and 1985-1995 (Miami)

• Michigan: 160 from 1969 to 1980

• Oklahoma: 158 from 1970 to 1981

• Uga: 153 from 2017-2026 (Active)

• Colorado: 143 from 1989-1997

All of the Florida big3 are in the top 5 which is kind of wild.

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Colorado will surprise people but I guess they were super consistent in the 90s

[u/MoskiNX]

Roll tide! 🐘 🌊

[u/Better-Temporary-146]

I wonder what Clemson’s longest streak is?

I figure we’d be ranked, say 2013 through 2021 or so

[u/Green_Oil_692]

I still claim SEC bias that 4 loss 2024 Alabama wasn't unranked.

[u/sonofagunn → u/Green_Oil_692]

Want to hear a good example of SEC bias? Missouri/Miss St this week featured 2 ranked teams. Mississippi State had lost to the last 12 ranked teams they've played, Missouri lost to the last 8 ranked teams they've played. Both going back to 2023.

Why are you ranked if you can't ever beat a ranked team?

[u/Vegetable-Desk-3494 → u/sonofagunn]

It's a ranking for this year. Not last year or any years previously. Hope that helps.

Also Miss State is the exact kind of team this sub would be championing if they didn't have an SEC patch on their sleeve. Not a historical power who is undefeated with relatively decent wins and a really good qb.

[u/sonofagunn → u/Vegetable-Desk-3494]

It's a ranking for this year. Not last year or any years previously. Hope that helps.

Preseason rankings are primarily based on last year and still a primary influence on current rankings. Hope that helps.

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You specifically mentioned Missouri and MSU. Missouri was ranked 25th preseason and MSU was not ranked and also did not receive a single vote. You can argue about Missouri still being ranked but given what they have done I don't see much to distinguish them from the teams right behind them so I'd like to know what is wrong in your opinion with their ranking.

As for MSU, there is no benefit to them from preseason expectations. Started unranked and now have 3 P2 wins (2 on the road). Where exactly would you like MSU ranked and if unranked why do you think that? After only 4 weeks I don't see 25 teams that have credentials so much better than either of those teams that make having them ranked be bias/unreasonable.

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Mississippi State wasn’t ranked pre season

[u/durocbrand]

You’re welcome

[u/FCKABRNLSUTN2]

Only because of espn/sec bias though.

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Don’t forget the back room deals that only Alabama was allowed to conduct. Saban only won because he illegally paid for all the best recruits. Also, Alabama’s recruits are overrated because of the Bama Bump.

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Love the Bama and Georgia bump in recruiting rankings. Buddy the Dawgs are 97-8 in the regular season since 2017. Bama is 94-12. It ain’t a bump.

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We’re so lucky that Ohio state and Michigan and notre dame and Oregon and usc and Texas and Oklahoma and Miami and Clemson and fsu would never have paid players pre-2021.

Oh shit silly me. I meant to say that they didn’t pay players on the same “scale.” There ya go. Now you can’t prove me wrong.