AP Poll Pre

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2009

7/1/2009

Preseason Poll

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida (58)	1,498	1
2	Texas (2)	1,424	4
3	Oklahoma	1,370	5
4	USC	1,313	3
5	Alabama	1,156	6
6	Ohio State	1,113	9
7	Virginia Tech	1,054	15
8	Mississippi	1,047	14
9	Oklahoma State	989	16
9	Penn State	989	8
11	LSU	914	NR
12	California	746	NR
13	Georgia	714	13
14	Boise State	659	11
15	Georgia Tech	593	22
16	Oregon	587	10
17	TCU	521	7
18	Florida State	307	21
19	Utah	289	2
20	BYU	267	25
21	North Carolina	261	NR
22	Iowa	229	20
23	Notre Dame	225	NR
24	Nebraska	207	NR
25	Kansas	134	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.