AP Poll 11/25

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2007

11/25/2007

Week 13

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Missouri (45)	1,604	3
2	West Virginia (20)	1,574	4
3	Ohio State	1,469	5
4	Georgia	1,354	6
5	LSU	1,269	1
6	Virginia Tech	1,266	8
7	Kansas	1,217	2
8	USC	1,212	11
9	Oklahoma	1,191	10
10	Florida	1,029	12
11	Hawaii	991	14
12	Boston College	909	15
13	Arizona State	826	7
14	Tennessee	746	19
15	Illinois	719	18
16	Clemson	553	21
17	Texas	435	13
18	Oregon	419	9
19	Wisconsin	398	22
20	Cincinnati	343	24
21	BYU	329	23
22	Virginia	288	16
23	Auburn	226	25
24	Boise State	197	17
25	South Florida	190	NR

Associated Press Poll
Started in 1936.

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The Associated Press began running polls of sports writers to determine who is, by popular opinion, the best college football team in the country. The first AP Poll was run in 1934 but was not run continuously until 1936.

The AP Poll currently lists the top 25 teams in the nation. From 1936 to 1961 the poll only ranked the top 20 teams. From 1962 to 1967 it only ranked the top 10 teams. From 1968 to 1988 the AP Poll returned to ranking the top 20 teams. In 1989 they started ranking the top 25 teams.

The AP poll was used in the beginning of the BCS to calculate the team standings. Due to some controversies within the BCS, the AP Poll was pulled from these calculations which caused the BCS to create the new Harris Poll.