AP Poll 9/7

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2008

9/7/2008

Week 2

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (33)	1,577	1
2	Georgia (23)	1,525	2
3	Oklahoma (2)	1,458	4
4	Florida (4)	1,438	5
5	Ohio State (1)	1,347	3
6	Missouri (1)	1,336	6
7	LSU (1)	1,231	7
8	Texas	1,100	10
9	Auburn	1,067	9
10	Wisconsin	910	11
11	Alabama	865	13
12	Texas Tech	845	12
13	Kansas	825	14
14	East Carolina	762	NR
15	Arizona State	744	15
16	Oregon	616	18
17	Penn State	607	19
18	BYU	537	16
19	South Florida	493	17
20	Wake Forest	404	20
21	Fresno State	290	21
22	Utah	258	22
23	California	195	NR
24	Illinois	164	24
25	West Virginia	163	8

Associated Press Poll
Started in 1936.

More Info

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.