AP Poll 9/6

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2009

9/6/2009

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida (56)	1,493	1
2	Texas (2)	1,424	2
3	USC	1,355	4
4	Alabama (2)	1,331	5
5	Oklahoma State	1,201	9
6	Mississippi	1,095	8
7	Penn State	1,082	10
8	Ohio State	985	6
9	BYU	984	20
10	California	971	12
11	LSU	890	11
12	Boise State	882	14
13	Oklahoma	782	3
14	Virginia Tech	652	7
15	Georgia Tech	630	15
16	TCU	523	17
17	Utah	404	19
18	Notre Dame	383	23
19	North Carolina	338	21
20	Miami	315	NR
21	Georgia	294	13
22	Nebraska	266	24
23	Cincinnati	248	NR
24	Kansas	196	25
25	Missouri	126	NR

Associated Press Poll
Started in 1936.

More Info

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.