AP Poll 10/25

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2009

10/25/2009

Week 8

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida (30)	1,463	2
2	Alabama (23)	1,448	1
3	Texas (7)	1,407	3
4	USC	1,217	4
5	Cincinnati	1,211	5
6	Boise State	1,177	6
7	Iowa	1,148	7
8	TCU	1,132	10
9	LSU	1,040	9
10	Oregon	933	12
11	Georgia Tech	923	11
12	Penn State	843	13
13	Oklahoma State	768	14
14	Virginia Tech	734	15
15	Houston	601	17
16	Pittsburgh	551	20
17	Ohio State	508	18
18	Miami	501	8
19	Utah	400	19
20	West Virginia	323	22
21	South Carolina	270	23
22	Oklahoma	210	25
23	Arizona	164	NR
24	Mississippi	142	NR
25	Notre Dame	135	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.