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Final Billingsley Rankings

*All Billingsley Reports are generated post-bowl games

1972
Season
Date RB Team
Jan. 2nd 1 Southern Cal
Jan. 2nd 2 Auburn
Jan. 2nd 3 Oklahoma
Jan. 2nd 4 Texas
Jan. 2nd 5 Alabama
Jan. 2nd 6 Michigan
Jan. 2nd 7 Tennessee
Jan. 2nd 8 LSU
Jan. 2nd 9 Nebraska
Jan. 2nd 10 Penn State
Jan. 2nd 11 Ohio State
Jan. 2nd 12 Notre Dame
Jan. 2nd 13 UCLA
Jan. 2nd 14 North Carolina
Jan. 2nd 15 Washington
Jan. 2nd 16 Colorado
Jan. 2nd 17 Arizona State
Jan. 2nd 18 San Diego State
Jan. 2nd 19 Dartmouth
Jan. 2nd 20 Georgia
Jan. 2nd 21 Florida
Jan. 2nd 22 Washington State
Jan. 2nd 23 Mississippi
Jan. 2nd 24 Air Force
Jan. 2nd 25 Yale
Jan. 2nd 26 Oklahoma State
Jan. 2nd 27 Georgia Tech
Jan. 2nd 28 Texas Tech
Jan. 2nd 29 North Carolina St.
Jan. 2nd 30 Cornell
Jan. 2nd 31 Iowa State
Jan. 2nd 32 SMU
Jan. 2nd 33 Utah State
Jan. 2nd 34 Army
Jan. 2nd 35 West Virginia
Jan. 2nd 36 Baylor
Jan. 2nd 37 Missouri
Jan. 2nd 38 Rice
Jan. 2nd 39 Stanford
Jan. 2nd 40 Arkansas
Jan. 2nd 41 TCU
Jan. 2nd 42 Tulane
Jan. 2nd 43 Florida State
Jan. 2nd 44 Louisville
Jan. 2nd 45 Pennsylvania
Jan. 2nd 46 Houston
Jan. 2nd 47 Brigham Young
Jan. 2nd 48 Michigan State
Jan. 2nd 49 Western Michigan
Jan. 2nd 50 Utah
Jan. 2nd 51 Oregon
Jan. 2nd 52 Miami (Ohio)
Jan. 2nd 53 Purdue
Jan. 2nd 54 Kansas
Jan. 2nd 55 Pacific
Jan. 2nd 56 California
Jan. 2nd 57 Texas A&M
Jan. 2nd 58 Virginia Tech
Jan. 2nd 59 Miami (Fla.)
Jan. 2nd 60 Minnesota
Jan. 2nd 61 Mississippi State
Jan. 2nd 62 Indiana
Jan. 2nd 63 Navy
Jan. 2nd 64 Oregon State
Jan. 2nd 65 Kansas State
Jan. 2nd 66 Duke
Jan. 2nd 67 Harvard
Jan. 2nd 68 Syracuse
Jan. 2nd 69 New Mexico
Jan. 2nd 70 Arizona
Jan. 2nd 71 Iowa
Jan. 2nd 72 Northern Illinois
Jan. 2nd 73 Wisconsin
Jan. 2nd 74 Illinois
Jan. 2nd 75 Maryland
Jan. 2nd 76 Clemson
Jan. 2nd 77 Princeton
Jan. 2nd 78 Bowling Green
Jan. 2nd 79 Kentucky
Jan. 2nd 80 Pittsburgh
Jan. 2nd 81 South Carolina
Jan. 2nd 82 Columbia
Jan. 2nd 83 Virginia
Jan. 2nd 84 Long Beach State
Jan. 2nd 85 Northwestern
Jan. 2nd 86 Wyoming
Jan. 2nd 87 San Jose State
Jan. 2nd 88 Toledo
Jan. 2nd 89 Wake Forest
Jan. 2nd 90 Fresno State
Jan. 2nd 91 Boston College
Jan. 2nd 92 Tulsa
Jan. 2nd 93 Texas-El Paso
Jan. 2nd 94 Vanderbilt
Jan. 2nd 95 Memphis
Jan. 2nd 96 Kent State
Jan. 2nd 97 Ohio
Jan. 2nd 98 Rutgers
Jan. 2nd 99 Cincinnati
Jan. 2nd 100 Colorado State
Jan. 2nd 101 Southern Miss
Jan. 2nd 102 Brown
Jan. 2nd 103 New Mexico State
Jan. 2nd 104 North Texas

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