AP Poll 11/2

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2008

11/2/2008

Week 10

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (46)	1,600	2
2	Texas Tech (12)	1,528	6
3	Penn State (6)	1,525	3
4	Florida (1)	1,398	5
5	Texas	1,353	1
6	Oklahoma	1,324	4
7	USC	1,250	7
8	Oklahoma State	1,198	9
9	Boise State	1,030	11
10	Utah	1,028	10
11	TCU	958	12
12	Ohio State	898	13
13	Missouri	830	14
14	Georgia	808	8
15	LSU	746	15
16	Ball State	594	18
17	BYU	536	17
18	Michigan State	456	22
19	North Carolina	418	21
20	West Virginia	303	NR
21	California	288	NR
22	Georgia Tech	286	NR
23	Maryland	242	25
24	Florida State	128	16
25	Pittsburgh	96	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.