Alabama, Clemson and Ohio were at the helm of the Associated Press College’s final regular season football poll on Sunday, with No. 4 Notre Dame comfortably ahead of No. 5 Texas A&M.
Before the football college selection committee revealed its selections for the final, the AP Top 25 voters published their final ranking. Fighting Irish were 41 comfortable points ahead of Aggies.
Undefeated Cincinnati was No. 6. Indiana, Oklahoma, Coastal Carolina and Florida completed the top 10.
The only team to come out of the standings this week was Buffalo, who lost the game in the title of the Mid-American Conference.
Oregon Southern California’s upset in the Pac-12 title lifted the Ducks back in the standings in 25th place. USC dropped nine places from 13 to 22 after its first loss of the season.
San Jose State made the biggest jump in the rankings this week. The undefeated Spartans climbed six places to No. 25 in 19th place after winning the Mountain West Championship against Boise State.
Alabama took its weekly series of appearances to the polls at 212, breaking a tie with Florida State and taking second place on the all-time list. Nebraska is in first place with a series of 348 in the period 1981-2002.