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Ohio State, Oklahoma top AP all-time Top 25
- Updated: August 2, 2016
2:47 PM ET
Who’s No. 1?
The Associated Press began asking the most important question in sports in 1936, and 1,103 times since then the AP college football poll has provided an answer that has only led to more questions, such as: What? Why? Are you kidding?
The arguments about what team is best in college football have moved from bars and taverns to Facebook and Twitter, but if you think it’s more heated now then back in the day, consider:
Before the AP started asking its member sports writers and editors to vote for the top teams, then-sports editor Alan J. Gould in 1935 went about ranking them himself. In the final rankings he named Minnesota, Princeton and TCU co-No. 1s, and Gophers fans, as the story goes, hanged Gould in effigy.
“It created a storm in the Big Ten in general,” said Gould, who died in 1993, recalled on the 50th anniversary, “and Minneapolis-St. Paul, in …
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