AP Poll 10/18

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2009

10/18/2009

Week 7

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (39)	1,447	2
2	Florida (20)	1,434	1
3	Texas	1,365	3
4	USC	1,213	6
5	Cincinnati	1,163	8
6	Boise State	1,156	5
7	Iowa	1,092	11
8	Miami	1,056	9
9	LSU	1,014	10
10	TCU	1,001	12
11	Georgia Tech	861	19
12	Oregon	849	13
13	Penn State	753	14
14	Oklahoma State	690	16
15	Virginia Tech	684	4
16	BYU	601	18
17	Houston	478	23
18	Ohio State	373	7
19	Utah	350	24
20	Pittsburgh	330	NR
21	Texas Tech	286	NR
22	West Virginia	205	NR
23	South Carolina	159	22
24	Kansas	120	17
25	Oklahoma	117	20

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.