[1] Division I FBS football is the only National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) sport for which the NCAA does not sanction a yearly championship event.
As such, it is sometimes unofficially referred to as a "mythical national championship".
Currently, two widely recognized national champion selectors are the Associated Press, which conducts a poll of sportswriters, and the Coaches' Poll, a survey of active members of the American Football Coaches Association.
The AP Poll began with the 1936 college football season.
[8] This split allowed independent polling of both divisions in the 1978 season.