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AP poll: College football, College basketball & Overview

In American college sports, the Associated Press poll (AP poll) provides weekly rankings of the top 25 NCAA teams in one of three Division I sports: football, men's basketball and women's basketball. The rankings are compiled by polling 62 sportswriters and broadcasters from across the nation. Each voter provides their own ranking of the top 25 teams…

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AP poll topic overview

The analysis highlights College football, College basketball and Overview as prominent areas in the source structure around AP poll.

Related topics
78
Source areas
3
Connected nodes
81
Extracted relationships
90
Concept neighborhoods
32
Bridge connections
81

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

College football · 64 topics
College basketball · 7 topics
Overview · 7 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Div I men's basketball
1948–49 · 2025–26 season
Div I women's basketball
1976–77 · 2025–26 season
Div I/FBS football
1936
Div I/FCS football
1978
FBS football
2025 season
FCS football
2025 season

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

College football

College basketball

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How AP poll connects Entity context

The extracted context around AP poll shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, AP poll → AP, As, BCS, Because, Big, Bowl Championship Series, Cal, Coaches Poll, December, Florida, For, In, Kansas State, Louisiana State University, LSU, Michigan, No, Oklahoma Sooners, Rose Bowl, Southern California Another extracted example is AP poll → After, AP, At, Because, Connecticut, Greenberg, In, Martin Luther King, Mel Greenberg, No, Over, Pat Summitt, Summitt, Tennessee, The, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Top, Tuesday. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

AP poll

Top relations

related to AP Poll inclusion in the BCS · 23
AP poll → AP, As, BCS, Because, Big, Bowl Championship Series, Cal, Coaches Poll, December, Florida, For, In, Kansas State, Louisiana State University, LSU, Michigan, No, Oklahoma Sooners, Rose Bowl, Southern California
related to Women's basketball · 18
AP poll → After, AP, At, Because, Connecticut, Greenberg, In, Martin Luther King, Mel Greenberg, No, Over, Pat Summitt, Summitt, Tennessee, The, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Top, Tuesday
related to Men's basketball · 13
AP poll → AP, Associated Press, Beginning, Duke, In, It, Kansas, Kentucky, North Carolina, On January, The, The AP, UCLA
related to Other media football polls · 11
AP poll → CNN, Coaches Poll, ESPN, Having, No, The, The AP Poll, This, United Press, United Press International, USA Today
see also · 11
AP poll → AP PollList, Century, Championship SeriesCoaches' PollCollege, Coach's Poll, College, College Football PollList, FBS, FBSCollege Football PlayoffDickinson SystemGame, Grantland Rice AwardHarris Interactive, NCAA, NCAA Division
related to College basketball · 6
AP poll → Generally, In Division, March Madness, Monday, NCAA, The
Div I men's basketball · 2
AP poll → 1948–49, 2025–26 season
Div I women's basketball · 2
AP poll → 1976–77, 2025–26 season
Div I/FBS football · 1
AP poll → 1936
Div I/FCS football · 1
AP poll → 1978

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

poll ap season teams football polls college top rankings bcs national game basketball coaches 25 bowl team final texas men's

AP poll relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 90 structured relationships around AP poll. Examples in this analysis include AP poll → Div I men's basketball → 1948–49 and AP poll → Div I men's basketball → 2025–26 season. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
AP pollDiv I men's basketball1948–491.00infobox
AP pollDiv I men's basketball2025–26 season1.00infobox
AP pollDiv I women's basketball1976–771.00infobox
AP pollDiv I women's basketball2025–26 season1.00infobox
AP pollDiv I/FBS football19361.00infobox
AP pollDiv I/FCS football19781.00infobox
AP pollFBS football2025 season1.00infobox
AP pollFCS football2025 season1.00infobox
AP pollrelated to AP Poll inclusion in the BCSIn0.60section
AP pollrelated to AP Poll inclusion in the BCSBowl Championship Series0.60section
AP pollrelated to AP Poll inclusion in the BCSBCS0.60section
AP pollrelated to AP Poll inclusion in the BCSFor0.60section

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around AP poll bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Poll, Season and College. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

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    • Poll
    • Season
    • College
    • Football
    • Rankings
    • Men's
    • Basketball
    • Final
    • Top
    • Polls
    • Teams
    • Coaches
  • ap poll
    • Poll
    • Season
    • College
    • Bcs
    • Coaches
    • Football
    • Rankings
    • Final
    • Top
    • Men's
    • Teams
    • Basketball
  • college sports
    • Football
    • Men's
    • Basketball
    • One
    • Ap
    • Women's
    • Ncaa
    • Weekly
    • Teams
    • Press
    • Poll
    • Polls
  • football
    • Weekly
    • Ncaa
    • Men's
    • Women's
    • Teams
    • Final
    • Poll
    • Rankings
    • Sports
    • National
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  • basketball
    • Men's
    • Women's
    • College
    • Ncaa
    • Press
    • Teams
    • Top
    • Season
    • Weekly
    • Football
    • Poll
    • Began
  • women's basketball
    • Basketball
    • Men's
    • Women's
    • College
    • Ncaa
    • Press
    • Teams
    • Top
    • Weekly
    • Season
    • Football
    • Poll
  • bowl games
    • Rose
    • Championship
    • Texas
    • National
    • Champion
    • Game
    • Final
    • Ncaa
    • Weekly
    • Lost
    • Two
    • Poll
  • rose bowl
    • Rose
    • Championship
    • Texas
    • National
    • Champion
    • Game
    • Final
    • Ncaa
    • Weekly
    • Lost
    • Two
    • Poll

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For AP poll, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects AP poll with College football. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
AP pollCollege football · splits 17 ⟂ 65
AP pollOverview · splits 74 ⟂ 8
AP pollCollege basketball · splits 74 ⟂ 8

Map overview Semantic statistics

AP poll

Nodes82
Edges81
Triples90
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.02439
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around AP poll to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as College football, College basketball & Overview, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — AP poll · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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