AP Poll 10/26

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2008

10/26/2008

Week 9

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Texas (65)	1,625	1
2	Alabama	1,542	2
3	Penn State	1,503	3
4	Oklahoma	1,361	4
5	Florida	1,337	5
6	Texas Tech	1,280	8
7	USC	1,234	6
8	Georgia	1,212	9
9	Oklahoma State	1,168	7
10	Utah	1,027	12
11	Boise State	946	13
12	TCU	848	15
13	Ohio State	834	10
14	Missouri	791	16
15	LSU	649	11
16	Florida State	558	24
17	BYU	553	18
18	Ball State	542	20
19	Tulsa	527	22
20	Minnesota	438	25
21	North Carolina	228	NR
22	Michigan State	219	NR
23	Oregon	188	NR
24	South Florida	100	14
25	Maryland	89	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.