AP Poll 12/2

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2007

12/2/2007

Week 14

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Ohio State (50)	1,578	3
2	LSU (11)	1,519	5
3	Oklahoma (1)	1,423	9
4	Georgia (1)	1,421	4
5	Virginia Tech (1)	1,380	6
6	USC	1,346	8
7	Missouri	1,195	1
8	Kansas	1,164	7
9	Florida	1,071	10
10	Hawaii (1)	1,050	11
11	West Virginia	1,040	2
12	Arizona State	939	13
13	Illinois	797	15
14	Boston College	668	12
15	Clemson	614	16
16	Tennessee	554	14
17	Texas	517	17
18	Wisconsin	447	19
19	BYU	439	21
20	Cincinnati	394	20
21	Virginia	344	22
22	Auburn	264	23
23	South Florida	246	25
24	Boise State	221	24
25	Arkansas	173	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.