AP Poll Pre

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2008

7/1/2008

Preseason Poll

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Georgia (22)	1,528	2
2	Ohio State (21)	1,506	5
3	USC (12)	1,490	3
4	Oklahoma (4)	1,444	8
5	Florida (6)	1,415	13
6	Missouri	1,266	4
7	LSU	1,135	1
8	West Virginia	1,116	6
9	Clemson	1,105	21
10	Auburn	968	15
11	Texas	966	10
12	Texas Tech	786	22
13	Wisconsin	771	24
14	Kansas	707	7
15	Arizona State	631	16
16	BYU	590	14
17	Virginia Tech	578	9
18	Tennessee	509	12
19	South Florida	496	NR
20	Illinois	483	20
21	Oregon	366	23
22	Penn State	293	NR
23	Wake Forest	227	NR
24	Alabama	89	NR
25	Pittsburgh	85	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.