Trivia for off season banter. Post your highest rankings ever achieved in football. Not year end ranking but highest at any time. I picked USF's top 12 rankings. Several others in the 13-20 range in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2011.

USF (AP Poll):

#2 - Oct 14, 2007 (with 11 first place votes)
#5 - Oct 7, 2007
#6 - Sep 30, 2007
#10 - Sep 28, 2008
#11 - Oct 21, 2007
#12 - Sep 14, 2008

Wow, almost 100 years ago

@SMUMustangs 5m
11/30/15: No. 1 SMU defeats No. 2 TCU 20-14 before topping Texas A&M 24-0 to earn its 1st National Championship and a trip to the Rose Bowl.

Last year for ucf. Final bcs ranking of #10.

(05-27-2014 03:33 PM)Pony94 Wrote:  Wow, almost 100 years ago

@SMUMustangs 5m
11/30/15: No. 1 SMU defeats No. 2 TCU 20-14 before topping Texas A&M 24-0 to earn its 1st National Championship and a trip to the Rose Bowl.

Wow.

Weren't u guys in the top 5 in the early 80's with Dickerson/James?

(05-27-2014 03:35 PM)KNIGHTTIME Wrote:  Last year for ucf. Final bcs ranking of #10.

Who knows and how would you research in season polls going back 50,60,70 or more years ago?

Final ranking is the only thing that matters and is easily verifiable.

That said #4 is our high point in the final polls. 16 times in the top 25 final poll and 5 times inside the top 10.

#9 Final Ranking AP Poll 1992

(05-27-2014 03:36 PM)BullsFanInTX Wrote:  

(05-27-2014 03:33 PM)Pony94 Wrote:  Wow, almost 100 years ago

@SMUMustangs 5m
11/30/15: No. 1 SMU defeats No. 2 TCU 20-14 before topping Texas A&M 24-0 to earn its 1st National Championship and a trip to the Rose Bowl.

Wow.

Weren't u guys in the top 5 in the early 80's with Dickerson/James?

#5 in AP Poll in 1981. #2 in both, AP & Coaches poll in 1982

Tulane in 1998 finished the football season ranked Number 7 in the nation with a 12-0 record. Tulane University President Scott Cowen after made a major attack against the BCS for not including Tulane in their mix that year. His attack included testimony before Congress and the leadership of the non BCS universities resulting in some changes to the BCS system.

I'm sorry....

Why are we not talking about Final Rankings?

If you drop out of the Top 25, there was probably a reason.

(05-27-2014 04:09 PM)ArmoredUpKnight Wrote:   I'm sorry....

Why are we not talking about Final Rankings?

If you drop out of the Top 25, there was probably a reason.

It's just useless trivia to see how high each school got. Nothing more. Something to pass time in off season.

Someone should rank the membership by highest final finish. I would if I knew where to go to find it.

SMU #1
Navy #2
Houston #4
Tulane #7
Cincy #8
ECU #9
UCF #10
USF #23


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(05-27-2014 04:04 PM)Savacool Wrote:  Tulane in 1998 finished the football season ranked Number 7 in the nation with a 12-0 record. Tulane University President Scott Cowen after made a major attack against the BCS for not including Tulane in their mix that year. His attack included testimony before Congress and the leadership of the non BCS universities resulting in some changes to the BCS system.

I remember. I was back in Tampa then, and the Bucs brought in Shaun King the year after.

(05-27-2014 03:44 PM)GO Coogs GO!!! Wrote:  Who knows and how would you research in season polls going back 50,60,70 or more years ago?

Final ranking is the only thing that matters and is easily verifiable.

That said #4 is our high point in the final polls. 16 times in the top 25 final poll and 5 times inside the top 10.

All AP polls are posted online, even 50 yrs ago. Your schools football records site also has these figures.

(05-27-2014 04:28 PM)BullsFanInTX Wrote:  

(05-27-2014 03:44 PM)GO Coogs GO!!! Wrote:  Who knows and how would you research in season polls going back 50,60,70 or more years ago?

Final ranking is the only thing that matters and is easily verifiable.

That said #4 is our high point in the final polls. 16 times in the top 25 final poll and 5 times inside the top 10.

All AP polls are posted online, even 50 yrs ago. Your schools football records site also has these figures.

Oh I know (AP) but that is just too time consuming to go through 12,13, or whatever polls each year to see where we peaked in season. I would have to go through approx 800 polls to figure that out and schools playing earlier would have much more..... a waste of time when the final polls are all that matter.

Our school only lists final rankings in our info.

(05-27-2014 03:33 PM)Pony94 Wrote:  Wow, almost 100 years ago

@SMUMustangs 5m
11/30/15: No. 1 SMU defeats No. 2 TCU 20-14 before topping Texas A&M 24-0 to earn its 1st National Championship and a trip to the Rose Bowl.

That is a typo - it was 1935 not 1915.

If y'all want to look up your individual school, there's a site that archives all AP polls, and you can sort by school, where it lists every season in which your team was ranked:

http://collegepollarchive.com/football/a...4UG5BBCyhl

Tulane's weeks in the AP Poll's top 10:
1936 - #9 (1 wk), #10 (1 wk)
1939 - #4 (1 wk), #5 (4 wks - final), #6 (1 wk), #7 (1 wk), #8 (1 wk), #9 (1 wk)
1941 - #10 (1 wk)
1949 - #4 (2 wks), #10 (1 wk)
1998 - #7 (1 wk - final), #9 (1 wk), #10 (1 wk)

Tulane has ranked in the AP 59 weeks total, and in 7 final AP polls.

(05-27-2014 04:52 PM)rollgreenwave Wrote:  If y'all want to look up your individual school, there's a site that archives all AP polls, and you can sort by school, where it lists every season in which your team was ranked:

http://collegepollarchive.com/football/a...4UG5BBCyhl

Tulane's highest rankings:
1939 - #4 (1 wk)
1949 - #4 (2 wks)
1939 - #5 (4 wks - final)
1998 - #7 (1 wk - final)

Tulane has ranked in the AP 59 weeks total, and in 7 final AP polls.

Ok that puts our highest in season as #2.

Temple in 1936 was as high as 19, as high as 13 in 1941, 19 in 1974 and a final ranking of 17 in 1979. I also believe they finished the 1934 season ranked 15th after losing to Tulane in the Sugar Bowl.

5 seasons they were ranked, twice finished season ranked.

We had a couple of Top 5 finishes. I think we got up to #2 at one point.