{"id":62972,"date":"2015-01-13T07:51:09","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T13:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=62972"},"modified":"2015-01-13T07:51:09","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T13:51:09","slug":"ap-final-college-football-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=62972","title":{"rendered":"AP final college football poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UNDATED (AP) &#8211; Ohio State is No. 1 in the final Associated Press college football poll and TCU finished third, in front of two teams that made the playoffs ahead of the Horned Frogs.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Buckeyes finished on top of the AP Top 25 for the fifth time in program history, matching Miami and Southern California for fourth most behind Alabama (nine), Notre Dame (eight) and Oklahoma (seven).<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ohio State beat Oregon 42-20 on Monday night in the first College Football Playoff national championship game and got all 59 first-place votes in the media poll.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Ducks finished second in the rankings, matching their best finish.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Horned Frogs, who were left out of the playoff but beat Mississippi 42-3 in the Peach Bowl, were ranked ahead of No. 4 Alabama and No. 5 Florida State. The Tide and Seminoles lost playoff semifinals.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Michigan State tied Florida State for fifth.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Baylor, Georgia Tech, Georgia and UCLA round out the top 10.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNDATED (AP) &#8211; Ohio State is No. 1 in the final Associated Press college football poll and TCU finished third, in front of two teams that made the playoffs ahead of the Horned Frogs. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Buckeyes finished on top of the AP Top 25 for the fifth time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62973,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62972\/revisions\/62973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}