AP Poll 11/23

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2008

11/23/2008

Week 13

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (63)	1,622	1
2	Florida (2)	1,512	3
3	Oklahoma	1,486	5
4	Texas	1,482	4
5	USC	1,352	6
6	Penn State	1,238	7
7	Texas Tech	1,212	2
8	Utah	1,206	8
9	Boise State	1,064	9
10	Ohio State	1,043	10
11	Oklahoma State	997	11
12	Missouri	917	12
13	Georgia	874	13
14	TCU	750	15
15	Ball State	731	14
16	Cincinnati	640	19
17	Oregon State	604	21
18	Georgia Tech	339	NR
19	Oregon	320	24
20	Boston College	309	NR
20	BYU	309	16
22	Michigan State	274	17
23	Florida State	214	NR
24	Northwestern	145	NR
25	Mississippi	127	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.