AP Poll 11/9

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2008

11/9/2008

Week 11

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (44)	1,304	1
2	Texas Tech (21)	1,574	2
3	Florida	1,467	4
4	Texas	1,437	5
5	Oklahoma	1,375	6
6	USC	1,311	7
7	Penn State	1,161	3
8	Utah	1,157	10
9	Boise State	1,110	9
10	Ohio State	1,009	12
11	Oklahoma State	963	8
12	Missouri	913	13
13	Georgia	880	14
14	Ball State	677	16
15	TCU	623	11
16	BYU	602	17
17	North Carolina	597	19
18	Michigan State	584	18
19	LSU	552	15
20	Florida State	380	24
21	Pittsburgh	318	25
22	Cincinnati	269	NR
23	Oregon State	124	NR
24	South Carolina	117	NR
25	Tulsa	84	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.