As has been well chronicled here and elsewhere over the years there was a ton of musical chairs at #1, 2 and 3 for that matter over several weeks in 94. There was a broad variance in voters top 4 or 5 during much of Aug into early Nov. 7 teams had 1st place votes the first week, and Nebraska had the most but started just behind UF at #2.
The points in the poll were tight, nobody had a strangle hold. There were 3 weeks when #1 dropped despite winning. Nebraska immediately fell to #2 the next week after beating TT 42-16. I think UF hung 70 again on UK I'm guessing.
Iirc, Fla stretched its lead til AU beat them on a great Saturday of games on 10/15, but Nebraska was hopped by PSU and CU despite winning at Kst with Turmanator at QB on 10/15. Suppose voters assumed Nebraska was cooked. PSU winning at Mich helped of course. CU smoked an average OU team. That oct 18 poll was tight.
10/18 AP poll after UF loses to AU, N wins at #16KSU 17-6, and PSU wins 31-24 at #5 Mich
1. PSU (19) 1487
2. CU (15) 1474
3. N (25) 1463
4. AU (3) 1402
10/25 AP Poll
1. PSU (19) 1486
2. CU (16) 1482
3 N (24) 1461
4 AU (3) 1397
11/1 AP Poll (Nebraska collected 9 1st place votes, mostly from beating CU 24-7 I'd guess, maybe AU, PSU also gained 9, by moving N from 3 to 1 on your ballot, they gained two points, and if PSU is being replaced by Nebraska, then Nebraska was netting 3 points on PSU, easy to see how this played out. Nobody was dropping Nebraska after beating CU, they had to move up at least one spot in at least 25 ballots. This despite PSU hammering tOSU 63-14, hard for that to get the attention of a 2 v 3 game)
1. N (33) 1520
2. PSU (28) 1514
3. AU (1) 1427
Nebraska's point lead for #1 grew to about 18 points after this at one point, closing to 15 points after the regular season.
I think the Coaches poll was even more fickle, but can't quite locate all the weekly polls. paging FT.
