After the LSU Tigers crushed Ohio State in the BCS title game on Monday night and the Georgia Bulldogs disposed of the Hawaii Warriors on New Year’s Day the AP opted to recognize the SEC schools as the nation’s best, placing the Tigers at #1 while the Dogs claimed #2.

Heading into Monday night’s game the Ohio State Buckeyes were atop the BCS and AP polls but after being manhandled they dropped to #5 in the AP. The USC Trojans, who started the year at number one, managed to overcome the embarrassing loss to Stanford earlier in the year and finish #3 in the final poll.

Surprising just about everybody this year were the Missouri Tigers who came within a win of playing for the national championship. Instead they finished the year with a convincing thumping of Arkansas and ended up #4 in the AP.

Here is a look at the final AP Top 25 for the 2007 College Football Season

 1. LSU (60) 12-2 1,620

 2. Georgia (3) 11-2 1,515

 3. USC (1) 11-2 1,500

 4. Missouri 12-2 1,347

 5. Ohio State 11-2 1,346

 6. West Virginia 11-2 1,342

 7. Kansas (1) 12-1 1,303

 8. Oklahoma 11-3 1,139

 9. Virginia Tech 11-3 1,096

10. Texas 10-3 962

10. Boston College 11-3 962

12. Tennessee 10-4 904

13. Florida 9-4 685

14. Brigham Young 11-2 654

15. Auburn 9-4 648

16. Arizona State 10-3 587

17. Cincinnati 10-3 566

18. Michigan 9-4 508

19. Hawaii 12-1 460

20. Illinois 9-4 443

21. Clemson 9-4 353

22. Texas Tech 9-4 308

23. Oregon 9-4 253

24. Wisconsin 9-4 202

25. Oregon State 9-4 110

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