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The original was posted on /r/cfb by /u/jdprager on 2025-10-13 16:50:47+00:00.
Original Title: In 2015, 247Sports debuted their Team Talent Composite, a measure of the talent of every player on each FBS team. Indiana’s #72 ranking in 2025 is the lowest by any team to ever receive a first place vote in the AP Poll
Source: Me going through and manually checking the Wikipedia article for each year’s CFB rankings.
The only previous team to receive a first plate vote while outside the top 50 of this metric was 2021 Cincinnati, who received 3 FPVs in the penultimate rankings with a #54 Team Talent Composite.
Of the 70 total teams to receive first place votes in this 10.5 year span, only 9 (12.9%) were even outside the top 25, 1/3 of those in the first season of the metric. Along with the previously mentioned Indiana and Cincinnati teams, these were 2023 Washington (#26), 2018 Wisconsin (#36), 2017 Wisconsin (#37), 2016 Louisville (#32), and 2015 Baylor (#31), TCU (#39), and Utah (#5).
This is partially an indictment of ranking team talent purely on players’ recruiting rankings (listen up, ESPN) as 247 doesn’t adjust player value based on how they’re viewed as transfers. But it’s mostly just a glowing commendation of Curt Cignetti. Google him
Edit: shout out u/Chemical_Strain6488 for pointing out that I missed 2017 National Champion UCF and their 4 FPVs in the final week. They were ranked #55 in Team Talent Composite that year. So Indiana is still lowest, but we’re now at 3 total teams below 50th, and 10 of 71 (14.1%) below 25th. It also means 2017 joins 2015 as the only season with multiple teams outside the top 25 receiving votes for #1