Heading into the 2023 college football season, most of the headlines will involve the Big Ten and SEC conferences. In our composite rankings, those two conferences make up the top five. Overall, the Pac-12 had the second most teams appear.
Here is the full breakdown of teams by conference:
| SEC | 8 |
| Pac-12 | 6 |
| Big Ten | 5 |
| Big 12 | 5 |
| ACC | 3 |
| G5/Independents | 4 |
The four polls that make up the post-spring football composite rankings:
Using the four polls we had ties at the No. 3, No. 12, No. 21, No. 27, and No. 30 spots among the teams listed. The full post-spring rankings are listed below, ties listed in alphabetical order.