These 4 Voters Had UCF At No. 1 Over Alabama
Here are the four voters who had UCF ranked No. 1 instead of Alabama.
Alabama beat Georgia in the College Football Playoff national title game on Monday night, but the Crimson Tide weren't the only team that received No. 1 votes in the AP Poll.
The final AP Poll top 25 was released early this morning and 13-0 UCF received four first-place votes out of the possible 61.
Here are the four voters who had the Knights ranked No. 1:
- Sam McKewon of the Omaha World-Herald
- Safid Deen of the Orlando Sentinel
- Ryan Aber of The Oklahoman
- Ed Daigneault of the Republican-American
UCF, which ended its season with a win over Auburn in the Peach Bowl, came in at No. 6 in the actual poll, behind Alabama, Georgia, Oklahoma, Clemson and Ohio State.
As mentioned earlier, No. 1 was the highest any individual voter ranked them, while No. 10 was the lowest anyone ranked them.
Here's the full final poll:
1 | PV Rank 4 Points 1,521 | ||
2 | 3 1,454 | ||
3 | 2 1,374 | ||
4 | 1 1,292 | ||
5 | Ohio State Big Ten Record: 12-2 | 5 1,286 | |
6 | UCF (4) The American Record: 13-0 | 10 1,248 | |
7 | 6 1,194 | ||
8 | Penn State Big Ten Record: 11-2 | 9 1,120 | |
9 | 13 974 | ||
10 | 7 917 | ||
11 | Notre Dame Division I FBS Independents Record: 10-3 | 14 857 | |
12 | 8 839 | ||
13 | Miami (FL) ACC Record: 10-3 | 11 769 | |
14 | Oklahoma State Big 12 Record: 10-3 | 17 758 | |
15 | Michigan State Big Ten Record: 10-3 | 18 705 | |
16 | Washington Pac-12 Record: 10-3 | 12 668 | |
17 | Northwestern Big Ten Record: 10-3 | 20 528 | |
18 | 16 368 | ||
19 | Mississippi State SEC Record: 9-4 | 24 359 | |
20 | 15 336 | ||
21 | South Florida The American Record: 10-2 | 23 267 | |
22 | Boise State Mountain West Record: 11-3 | 25 251 | |
23 | North Carolina State ACC Record: 9-4 | - 232 | |
24 | Virginia Tech ACC Record: 9-4 | 22 126 | |
25 | Memphis The American Record: 10-3 | 19 119 |