According to On3's national college football writer Brett McMurphy, BYU has been the most underrated team in the AP Poll since 2014.
Going back over a decade now, no team has been more disrespected, doubted, overlooked, and undervalued by the AP Poll than the BYU Cougars. Not surprisingly, other "non-blue bloods" follow in Northwestern, Boise State, TCU, Iowa, and Indiana.
The disrespect BYU has received from the national media is more than frustrating. It feels personal or deliberate. Despite a consensus 1984 national championship, a Heisman Trophy winner, and being ranked somewhere in the Top 25 during eight of the last 13 seasons, voters in the AP Poll have withheld more love from the Cougars than any other team in the nation.