Can you name the schools with the highest average position on the AP Top 25 Poll? by LucasEwalt

Can you name the schools with the highest average position on the AP Top 25 Poll?

created by LucasEwalt

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Correctly named schools will show up below
Answers do not have to be guessed in order
Source: College Poll Archive
Please see first note for a description of the formula used to calculate the average rank.
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Average Rank	School	Weeks at #1
12.56		94
13.09		97
13.23		34
13.52		95
13.79		70
14.23		90
14.44		45
14.73		45
16.80		21
17.32		18
17.61		41
18.09		60
18.28		68

Average Rank	School	Weeks at #1
18.63		19
18.72		9
19.10		15
19.16		7
20.47		1
20.78		15
21.02		7
21.50		29
21.87		7
21.97		21
22.02		0
22.08		11
22.38 (26th)	11
22.45 (27th)	11
22.58 (28th)	11
22.80 (29th)	11
22.99 (30th)	11
23.12 (31st)	11
23.13 (32nd)	11
23.13 (33rd)	11
23.29 (34th)	11
23.31 (35th)	11
23.40 (36th)	11
23.41 (37th)	11
23.48 (38th)	11
23.52 (39th)	11
23.60 (40th)	11
23.64 (41st)	11
23.72 (42nd)	11
23.73 (43rd)	11
23.74 (44th)	11
23.77 (45th)	11
23.88 (46th)	11
23.90 (47th)	11
23.95 (48th)	11
23.98 (49th)	11
24.00 (50th)	11
24.29 (51st)	11
24.40 (52nd)	11
24.46 (53rd)	11
24.48 (54th)	11
24.58 (55th)	11
24.69 (56th)	11
24.69 (57th)	11
24.73 (58th)	11
24.78 (59th)	11
24.78 (60th)	11

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College Football - Average AP Poll Rank Quiz

by LucasEwalt

Created May 2, 2011 in Sports
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	LucasEwalt:	May 2nd, 2011 at 04:23 GMT	3 points
	There have been a total of 1,021 AP polls to date. The source I used shows each school's average rank while ranked in the top 25, as well as the number of weeks ranked in the top 25. For every week that a school wasn't ranked, I gave them a value of "26" and recalculated the averages. (Every school that was ranked in the top 25 for at least 100 weeks is listed as a bonus - there's 60 altogether.)

	tanderson12:	May 2nd, 2011 at 17:18 GMT	1 point
	Purdue somehow makes it in at 30!!

	rsplenda477:	May 2nd, 2011 at 23:50 GMT	2 points
	Wonder what Ohio State's rankings would be minus the lying sweater vest?

	Freder23:	May 3rd, 2011 at 00:04 GMT	1 point
	This list doesn't account for a team like Boise St who was not a member of FBS until the past decade. Their rank (since eligible for the AP poll) should certainly make this list.

	ricestillfumbled:	May 3rd, 2011 at 02:44 GMT	0 points
	i was mad that i got all 25...i was having too much fun with the bonuses

	LucasEwalt:	May 3rd, 2011 at 04:35 GMT	1 point
	@Freder23 - Good point. That's true. But there are also several schools that are either now FCS schools, no longer have football teams, or no longer exist. If I only used the polls where they were eligible to be ranked, the list would include a lot of Ivy League schools, schools like Fordham and Holy Cross, and war-time schools like Iowa Pre-Flight. So there's going to be a tradeoff one way or another, and this seemed like the better way to do it.

	pita:	May 3rd, 2011 at 18:14 GMT	0 points
	The bonus answers are annoying, because so many states have xxx and xxx state, so if I want to guess xxx state, it gives xxx as a bonus and I have to retype xxx state. People can go to the source to see the bonus answers, so please don't mess up the quiz including them here.

	LucasEwalt:	May 4th, 2011 at 07:20 GMT	2 points
	@pita - Actually, that shouldn't be a problem. For the schools that have a state name and then state/tech/a&m, the corresponding "state name only" school is either also an answer on the quiz or isn't a bonus at all. For Ohio State, Ohio isn't a bonus. For Penn State, Penn isn't a bonus. For Florida State, Florida is an actual answer on the quiz, so I suppose if you think of Florida State instead of Florida first, you'll get both answers anyway. The same goes for Texas A&M and Texas, Michigan State and Michigan, and Georgia Tech and Georgia - both schools in each of those pairs are answers. You really should never have a problem with trying to guess "something state" and have a bonus come up after you get done typing "something"

	LucasEwalt:	May 4th, 2011 at 07:25 GMT	2 points
	Also, the average ranking isn't given on the source site, I had to figure that out myself for each school. So people could do the math if they wanted to figure out a particular school, but they wouldn't be able to see it's actual rank without figuring out every other school's too. Since I already did the work, I figured I may as well have it on here in some form. I generally prefer to give too much info rather than not enough. And other people have said they liked the bonuses, so for now I'm planning on keeping them. I appreciate the feedback though.