Final NCAA Football (FBS) Poll Comparisons

[venture]

I thought it would be interesting to look at the polls from the Pre-Season to the final.

Rank	AP Pre	AP Final	Change from Pre	USA Pre	USA Final	Change from Pre
1	USC (25)	Alabama (59)	1	LSU (18)	Alabama (56)	1
2	Alabama (17)	Oregon	3	Alabama (20)	Oregon	3
3	LSU (16)	Ohio State	15	USC (19)	Notre Dame	21
4	Oklahoma (1)	Notre Dame	22	Oklahoma	Georgia	2
5	Oregon	Georgia	1	Oregon	Texas A&M	25
6	Georgia	Texas A&M	30	Georgia	Stanford	12
7	Florida State	Stanford	14	Florida State	South Carolina	2
8	Michigan (1)	South Carolina	1	Michigan	Florida State	-1
9	South Carolina	Florida	14	South Carolina	Clemson	5
10	Arkansas	Florida State	-3	Arkansas	Florida	13
11	West Virginia	Clemson	Not Pre-Ranked	West Virginia	Kansas State	10
12	Wisconsin	Kansas State	10	Wisconsin	LSU	-11
13	Michigan State	Louisville	12	Michigan State	Louisville	14
14	Clemson	LSU	-11	Clemson	Boise State	8
15	Texas	Oklahoma	-11	Texas	Oklahoma	-11
16	Virginia Tech	Utah State	Not Pre-Ranked	Nebraska	Northwestern	Not Pre-Ranked
17	Nebraska	Northwestern	Not Pre-Ranked	TCU	Utah State	Not Pre-Ranked
18	Ohio State	Boise State	6	Stanford	Texas	-3
19	Oklahoma State	Texas	-4	Oklahoma State	Oregon State	Not Pre-Ranked
20	TCU	Oregon State	Not Pre-Ranked	Virginia Tech	Vanderbilt	Not Pre-Ranked
21	Stanford	San Jose State	Not Pre-Ranked	Kansas State	San Jose State	Not Pre-Ranked
22	Kansas State	Northern Illinois	22	Boise State	Cincinnati	7
23	Florida	Vanderbilt	Not Pre-Ranked	Florida	Nebraska	-7
24	Boise State	Michigan	-16	Notre Dame	Northern Illinois	22
25	Louisville	Nebraska	-8	Auburn	Tulsa	Not Pre-Ranked
26	Notre Dame	Baylor	9	Washington	Michigan	-18
27	Washington	Penn State	Not Pre-Ranked	Louisville	UCLA	Not Pre-Ranked
28	Auburn	Cincinnati	12	Georgia Tech	Baylor	Not Pre-Ranked
29	North Carolina	Oklahoma Sate	-10	Cincinnati	Oklahoma State	-10
30	Utah	Tulsa	Not Pre-Ranked	Texas A&M	Wisconsin	-18
31	Georgia Tech	UCLA	Not Pre-Ranked	Baylor	UCF	11
32	BYU	Arkansas State	Not Pre-Ranked	Utah	Arkansas State	Not Pre-Ranked
33	Tennessee	UCF	4	Mississippi State	Arizona State	Not Pre-Ranked
34	South Florida	TCU	-14	South Florida	Rutgers	7
35	Baylor	Wisconsin	-23	North Carolina State	Kent State	Not Pre-Ranked
36	Texas A&M	North Dakota State	Not Pre-Ranked	Louisiana Tech	Louisiana Tech	0
37	UCF	-		BYU	Arizona	Not Pre-Ranked
38	Missouri	-		Virginia	Ohio	Not Pre-Ranked
39	North Carolina State	-		Houston	-
40	Cincinnati	-		Southern Miss	-
41	Houston	-		Rutgers	-
42	Louisiana Tech	-		UCF	-
43	Mississippi State	-		Tennessee	-
44	Northern Illinois	-		Missouri	-
45	-	-		Florida Int'l	-
46	-	-		Northern Illinois	-
47	-	-		Texas Tech	-

[ThomPaine]

Both polls had five SEC teams in the Top 10, and they were absolutely consistent, as five SEC teams finished in the Top 10. Of course, they were different SEC teams, but SEC teams nonetheless!