Every year since the 2003-04 season, college basketball's national champion has been ranked in the top 12 of the Week 6 AP poll. With more than two decades of precedent established, it's time to take stock of what that could portend for the 2025-26 season.

Here's an updated look at the top 25 rankings in college football after Week 15 conference championship games.

On Sunday December 7th, Michigan State Women’s basketball lost its first game of the season on the road against Wisconsin. In their BigTen opener, Michigan Stat

For the first time in program history, Indiana is the Big Ten champion and No. 1 team in college football following Saturday night's 13-10 triumph over Ohio State. The win catapults the Hoosiers to the top spot in Sunday's updated AP Top 25 rankings.

“Naturally, the eventual national champion tends to be highly ranked in any given week, but the week six poll in particular has, over the last 14 years, proven to be better than the rest all the way to Selection Sunday,” Gasaway wrote on December 10, 2018.

Following a pair of wins over both Clemson and UTSA, the Alabama Crimson Tide are on the move in the latest AP Poll Top 25.

Despite not playing over the weekend, the Trojans saw their ranking improve in the final AP Poll of the regular season

The Texas Tech Red Raiders are sending a loud message to the rest of the country. They just rolled past the previously unbeaten LSU Tigers with an 82–58 victory