RE: Final AP poll for the season: Bama, UGA, OU, Clemson, tOSU, UCF
More statistics:
This was the 50th season in which the final AP poll was taken after the bowl games. (Hard to believe they took the final poll before the bowls up until then, but that's what they did.)
Here are all the teams in those 50 years that finished undefeated and didn't finish #1 in the AP poll, with their final AP ranking. Didn't know the list was so long until I looked it up.
1968
Penn State, 11-0, #2
1969
Penn State, 11-0, #2
USC, 10-0-1, #3
1970
Arizona State, 11-0, #6
Toledo, 12-0, #12
Dartmouth, 9-0, #14
1971
Toledo, 12-0, #14
1973
Ohio State, 10-0-1, #2
Oklahoma, 10-0-1, #3
Penn State, 12-0, #5
Michigan, 10-0-1, #6
Miami-OH, 11-0, #15
1974
Miami-OH, 10-0-1, #10
1975
Arizona State, 12-0, #2
1976
Rutgers, 11-0, #17
1979
USC, 11-0-1, #2
1982
SMU, 11-0-1, #2
1987
Syracuse, 11-0-1, #4
1990
Georgia Tech, 11-0-1, #2 (voted #1 in final coaches poll)
1991
Washington, 12-0, #2 (voted #1 in final coaches poll)
1992
Michigan, 9-0-3, #5 (yep, 3 ties)
1993
Auburn, 11-0, #4 (on probation, no bowl)
1994
Penn State, 12-0, #2
Texas A&M, 10-0-1, #8 (on probation, no bowl)
1995
Toledo, 11-0-1, #24
1997
Nebraska, 13-0, #2 (voted #1 in final coaches poll)
1998
Tulane, 12-0, #7
1999
Marshall, 13-0, #10
2004
Auburn, 13-0, #2
Utah, 12-0, #4
2006
Boise State, 13-0, #5
2008
Utah, 13-0, #2
2009
Boise State, 14-0, #4
2010
TCU, 13-0, #2
2012
Ohio State, 12-0, #3 (on probation, no bowl)
2017
UCF, 12-0, #6
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