The Ohio State Buckeyes are the most consistently dominant college football program of the past 80-plus years, according to the sport’s most recognized poll. The Associated Press poll, first published in 1934, was created for media members to vote on who they believed to be the best teams in the sport. It determined the consensus national champion before the creation of the BCS in 1997 and the College Football Playoff in 2014. The poll still holds great value today and no program has been recognized as No. 1 as often as the Buckeyes. Here’s an interactive chart that shows which programs have spent the most consecutive weeks at No. 1 in the poll, each program’s total weeks spent with the No. 1 ranking, how many times each program has opened the season at No. 1 and how many times each program has finished the season at No. 1. Five interesting notes: 1. Ohio State, which has been at No. …
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