AP Poll Final

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2008

1/9/2009

Week 16

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida (48)	1,609	1
2	Utah (16)	1,519	7
3	USC (1)	1,481	5
4	Texas	1,478	3
5	Oklahoma	1,391	2
6	Alabama	1,264	4
7	TCU	1,193	11
8	Penn State	1,153	6
9	Ohio State	1,013	10
10	Oregon	997	15
11	Boise State	938	9
12	Texas Tech	916	8
13	Georgia	903	16
14	Mississippi	857	20
15	Virginia Tech	713	21
16	Oklahoma State	534	13
17	Cincinnati	506	12
18	Oregon State	467	24
19	Missouri	435	25
20	Iowa	317	NR
21	Florida State	246	NR
22	Georgia Tech	223	14
23	West Virginia	144	NR
24	Michigan State	138	19
25	BYU	137	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.