The FWAA-NFF Grantland Rice Super 16 poll is a weekly ranking of the top 16 college football teams in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision beginning with the 2014 season.
[2] The final poll is issued at the end of the regular season, but before bowl games.
Prior to the 2014 season, these polls were used in part to determine which two teams would play for the national title under the Bowl Championship Series and its predecessors.
The College Football Playoff, which also began in 2014, does not use poll data to choose its participants.
After every College Football Playoff championship game, the FWAA/NFF selects a national champion, and awards it the MacArthur Bowl.