AP Poll 11/1

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2009

11/1/2009

Week 9

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida (38)	1,448	1
2	Texas (13)	1,408	3
3	Alabama (8)	1,390	2
4	Cincinnati	1,212	5
5	Boise State	1,211	6
6	TCU	1,147	8
7	Oregon	1,130	10
8	Iowa	1,127	7
9	LSU	1,036	9
10	Georgia Tech	949	11
11	Penn State	886	12
12	USC	741	4
13	Houston	707	15
14	Pittsburgh	690	16
15	Ohio State	636	17
16	Miami	602	18
17	Utah	552	19
18	Oklahoma State	361	13
19	Notre Dame	352	25
20	Oklahoma	348	22
21	Arizona	322	23
22	Virginia Tech	185	14
23	California	181	NR
24	Wisconsin	172	NR
25	BYU	130	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.