Can you name the teams which have spent 100+ weeks in the AP College Football Top 25 without ever reaching #1? by kcostell

Number of Weeks	School	Conference
152		SEC
150		Pac-12
149		ACC
148		SEC
139		Big 12
127		Pac-12
126		Big 12
122		Independent
109		Big 12
108		MWC
89	MWC
82	MWC
81	MWC
78	MWC
78	MWC
77	MWC
Finished 1938 at #1	MWC
27 Weeks total at #1	MWC
95 Weeks total at #1	MWC

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Most Weeks in AP Football Poll w/o #1 Quiz

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Created Oct 18, 2010 in Sports
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	kcostell:	Oct 19th, 2010 at 03:30 GMT	10 points
	This test was inspired by the comments section to norwalkiian's AP #1's quiz (http://www.sporcle.com/games/norwalkiian/AP_Football_No_1s ). There were a few schools which I (and several other people) were surprised not to see on that quiz, and I was curious which teams held this particular record. As it turns out, there were a few surprises on that list too (I never knew that the 160 week school actually once had a good football team!) As it is, the quiz feels like a bit of a guessing game, because you're looking to name the "nearly, but not quite", instead of the best. I stuck "conference" in the third column as a way of reducing this, but would welcome any better suggestions.

	mikepmeyers:	Oct 19th, 2010 at 04:40 GMT	4 points
	Great quiz, I was wondering about just this as I was playing @norwalkiian's quiz. Good stuff, 5 globes from me.

	ilikequizzes:	Oct 19th, 2010 at 04:42 GMT	4 points
	Keep the conference column, it is helpful and prevents random guessing.

	hollabackitsobi:	Oct 19th, 2010 at 04:53 GMT	4 points
	Nothing to change here.

	norwalkiian:	Oct 19th, 2010 at 04:54 GMT	1 point
	Cheers to College Poll Archive! I like the addition of the conference column, too, at least for this quiz. I don't know if I'll add it to mine -- part of me thinks adding the conferences makes it more a "Name the members of Conference X" quiz than a "Name historically good schools" quiz. But in this case it's hard to name schools that HAVEN'T been number 1 before knowing which HAVE. All in all, I'd say, this works great as is.

	chriskotx:	Oct 19th, 2010 at 05:27 GMT	1 point
	I'm wondering how Texas Tech didnt make this list.

	kcostell:	Oct 19th, 2010 at 05:38 GMT	2 points
	Texas Tech (and Arizona) both were left off by mistake, and have been added. Thanks for the correction!

	nixxy311:	Oct 19th, 2010 at 08:32 GMT	5 points
	Sadly I'm from Georgia Tech and was surprised we had never made it to #1. Nice you can win 4 championships without ever getting there :)

	Kahlvin:	Oct 19th, 2010 at 13:09 GMT	2 points
	If you are going to accept Kansas St, Mississippi St, Arizona St, etc. Please accept "North Carolina St"

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	sinatra22:	Oct 19th, 2010 at 17:03 GMT	-4 points
	This just might be the greatest Sporcle quiz ever made. 5,000 globes!!!

	scherny05:	Oct 19th, 2010 at 22:17 GMT	4 points
	surely you jest hahaha

	kcostell:	Oct 19th, 2010 at 23:56 GMT	1 point
	JesseG, 1990 had a split national title. Georgia Tech took 1st in the UPI Poll, but was beaten out by a 1 loss Colorado team in the AP poll. Similarly, the 1952 Yellow Jackets, while undefeated and #1 in the International News Service poll, finished behind Michigan State in the AP poll. The other two national championships claimed by Georgia Tech were in the years before the AP started polling.

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	dan144556:	Oct 20th, 2010 at 02:43 GMT	-2 points
	I'd rather there weren't so many bonuses, personally.

	addicted1:	Oct 20th, 2010 at 07:31 GMT	0 points
	I needed an extra minute.

	Suekoff16:	Mar 5th, 2011 at 23:39 GMT	0 points
	It pains me to see my school as the top guessed answer and to have gone that many weeks ranked without being #1. That being said, GO DEVILS

	istalkblink182:	Mar 6th, 2011 at 06:10 GMT	-2 points
	i thought Kansas was #1 in 2007 before Mizzou knocked em off :). maybe that was just BCS #1 though

	Andy_:	Mar 6th, 2011 at 13:46 GMT	3 points
	Accept "ncst" for NC State.

	rsplenda477:	Mar 6th, 2011 at 15:33 GMT	1 point
	Really surprised with Georgia tech...especially during the Bobby Dodd era.

	teh_DR:	Mar 7th, 2011 at 00:56 GMT	1 point
	Now this is an interesting quiz. good job

	daHOOK:	Mar 9th, 2011 at 23:04 GMT	2 points
	That ACC school you couldn't believe was on this list actually hosted (and played in) the 1942 Rose Bowl just after Pearl Harbor.

	vikefan4life:	Mar 13th, 2011 at 18:46 GMT	1 point
	accept nc st

	hobochester:	Apr 2nd, 2011 at 19:19 GMT	1 point
	I can't believe I got 10, seeing how I didn't pay attention and thought it was basketball.

	loonmj:	Jul 5th, 2011 at 06:07 GMT	1 point
	It took me a while to get Georgia Tech since they won a national championship in 1990--but UPI, not AP.

	kcostell:	Oct 23rd, 2011 at 21:14 GMT	1 point
	Congratulations to the newest entry on this quiz for managing to mess with the quiz's statistics nearly as effectively as they've messed with the BCS powers that be.