AP Poll 11/22

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2009

11/22/2009

Week 12

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida (36)	1,463	1
2	Alabama (13)	1,428	2
3	Texas (11)	1,425	3
4	TCU	1,309	4
5	Cincinnati	1,245	5
6	Boise State	1,218	6
7	Georgia Tech	1,138	7
8	Pittsburgh	1,041	8
9	Ohio State	1,016	9
10	Oregon	983	11
11	Oklahoma State	793	12
12	Penn State	773	13
13	Iowa	766	15
14	Virginia Tech	675	16
15	Clemson	609	18
16	Oregon State	541	20
17	LSU	409	10
18	BYU	399	19
19	Miami	347	21
20	Mississippi	333	NR
21	California	263	NR
22	Utah	249	23
23	North Carolina	237	NR
24	USC	225	22
25	Houston	199	24

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.