Only 5 unranked teams in the AP preseason/first poll have won the AP championship

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#1 · Original post · Tue, 10 November 2026 18:17
Only 5 unranked teams in the AP preseason/first poll have won the AP championship

Like the title says we’ve had 90 years of the AP Poll with only 5 teams that were unranked in the preseason or first in-season poll finishing #1. In the early years with no preseason poll they did the first in-season poll usually after Week 2. Here‘s the list of unranked to #1 - 1958 LSU 1960 Minnesota 1981 Clemson 1983 Miami 1984 BYU ************************* So this got me thinking: Which preseason unranked team...

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