AP Poll 11/16

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2008

11/16/2008

Week 12

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (42)	1,601	1
2	Texas Tech (21)	1,574	2
3	Florida (2)	1,476	3
4	Texas	1,437	4
5	Oklahoma	1,369	5
6	USC	1,310	6
7	Penn State	1,178	7
8	Utah	1,158	8
9	Boise State	1,098	9
10	Ohio State	1,017	10
11	Oklahoma State	987	11
12	Missouri	913	12
13	Georgia	864	13
14	Ball State	714	14
15	TCU	659	15
16	BYU	656	16
17	Michigan State	612	18
18	LSU	526	19
19	Cincinnati	413	22
20	Pittsburgh	406	21
21	Oregon State	389	23
22	Maryland	161	NR
23	Miami	139	NR
24	Oregon	126	NR
25	North Carolina	115	17

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.