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The official October 18 AP poll has been released, with Miami first, BYU second and Ohio State third. Reader question: the confirmed order, vote margins and distinction from playoff selection.
Observed Oct 18, 2026 · 7:21 PM UTC · Source-linked editorial watchlist; no measured search volume is claimed.
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The official October 18 AP poll has been released, with Miami first, BYU second and Ohio State third. Reader question: the confirmed order, vote margins and distinction from playoff selection.
Manually reviewed editorial update, separate from retained Google RSS measurements. Around 19:15 UTC October 18, Google Trending Now US showed an active broad college football rankings cluster with visible related terms ap top 25, cfb rankings and ap poll; Yahoo Trending also surfaced Miami’s new No. 1. Those clusters contain multiple polls, teams and questions, not one event or a forecast of site traffic. AP’s primary Week 7 table and full release report, independently cross-checked against CBS’s October 18 AP table, verify the new order. No search-volume, growth, engagement or forecast measurement is imported; zero defaults mean unmeasured.
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Miami leads BYU by 22 voting points in the new AP poll, with Ohio State third. Georgia falls to fifth and Texas to 19th; this is a media ranking, not a playoff bracket.
Manually reviewed editorial update, separate from retained Google RSS measurements. Around 19:15 UTC October 18, Google Trend...