AP Poll 9/28

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2008

9/28/2008

Week 5

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (43)	1,599	2
2	Alabama (21)	1,565	8
3	LSU	1,466	5
4	Missouri (1)	1,453	6
5	Texas	1,362	7
6	Penn State	1,252	12
7	Texas Tech	1,105	10
8	BYU	1,098	11
9	USC	1,087	1
10	South Florida	1,035	13
11	Georgia	1,018	3
12	Florida	914	4
13	Auburn	860	15
14	Ohio State	829	14
15	Utah	713	17
16	Kansas	650	18
17	Boise State	549	19
18	Wisconsin	520	9
19	Vanderbilt	459	21
20	Virginia Tech	290	NR
21	Oklahoma State	277	NR
22	Fresno State	232	25
23	Oregon	199	NR
24	Connecticut	126	NR
25	Wake Forest	107	16

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.