While hotly contested races that take hours or days to count may attract the most attention, the AP for decades has called landslide or uncontested races at poll closing time. That’s what ...

The Associated Press will consider multiple factors and analyze available data before determining whether a winner can be declared when polls close in a given state. But the AP will never declare ...

Note: When calculating average finish in the CFP poll for teams that were ranked in the preseason AP poll, we assigned a rank value of 30 for any team that wasn't ranked in the final CFP poll.

College football rankings are always a matter of intense debate, and a lot of disagreement. How can they not be? A team's place in the AP Top 25 poll, and certainly the College Football Playoff ...

Once the CFP selection committee releases its first set of rankings at 7 p.m., Nov. 5, the AP poll becomes moot. However, at least right now, for Longhorn seniors Jake Majors and Michael Taaffe ...

Ahead of Monday's release of the preseason AP Top 25 rankings, there is an idea of how it will look based on offseason narratives and storylines. Several perceived title contenders ahead of the ...