HOUSTON– Michigan was voted an unanimous No. 1 in the last Associated Press Top 25 survey of the season after the Wolverines beat Washington in the College Football Playoff championship game Monday night to win their first nationwide title in 26 years.Final AP Leading 25 Survey 1. Michigan 15-0 2. Washington 14-1 3.
| Texas 12-2 4. |
Georgia 13-1 5. Alabama 12-2 6. Oregon 12-2 |
| 6. Florida St.13-1 8. Missouri 11-2 9. Ole Miss |
11-2 |
| 10. Ohio State 11-2 11. Arizona 10-3 12
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| . LSU 10-3 13. Penn State |
| 10-3 14. |
Notre Dame |
| 10-3 15. Oklahoma 10-3 16. Oklahoma State 10-4 17. Tennessee 9-4 18. Kansas |
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9-4 19. Louisville 10-4 20. Clemson |
9-4 21. NC State 9-4 22 |
. SMU |
11-3 |
| 23. Kansas 9-4 24. Iowa 10-4 25. |
| Liberty 13-1 The |
Wolverines(15-0)received all 61 first-place votes as |
| the only unbeaten team in the nation. Washington(14-1)was second, the Huskies’best final ranking considering that finishing No. 2 in 1991. That year |
| , Washington was |
No. 1 |
| in the last coaches’survey to declare its only nationwide title.Texas (12-2)was 3rd, its best ranking considering that |
finishing 2nd in 2009. Georgia(
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| 13-1 )was fourth and Alabama(12-2), which |
ended the |
Bulldogs’ |
| 29-game winning streak in the Southeastern Conference title game to make the playoff, was fifth.Florida State (13-1) and Oregon(12-2)completed tied for 6th. The Seminoles’only loss came in an uneven Orange Bowl versus Georgia after they became the first unbeaten Power 5 conference champion to be neglected of the playoff and a lot of their top players opted out of the bowl.Missouri was eighth and Ole Miss was ninth to provide the SEC four groups in the leading 10. For the Tigers, it was their finest surface since landing at No. 5 in 2013. Ohio State was 10th, the Buckeyes ‘worst last ranking considering that they were 12th in 2013. Clemson returned into the poll at No. 20 to extend its streak of being ranked to end the season to 13 years, the second longest in the country behind Alabama’s 16. |
