AP Poll 10/12

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2008

10/12/2008

Week 7

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Texas (39)	1,599	5
2	Alabama (26)	1,582	2
3	Penn State	1,492	6
4	Oklahoma	1,306	1
5	Florida	1,284	11
6	USC	1,247	8
7	Texas Tech	1,210	7
8	Oklahoma State	1,184	17
9	BYU	1,131	9
10	Georgia	1,081	10
11	Missouri	984	3
12	Ohio State	908	12
13	LSU	893	4
14	Utah	834	14
15	Boise State	714	15
16	Kansas	620	16
17	Virginia Tech	540	18
18	North Carolina	416	22
19	South Florida	397	19
20	Michigan State	371	23
21	Wake Forest	330	21
22	Vanderbilt	258	13
23	Pittsburgh	182	24
24	Ball State	166	25
25	California	115	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.