AP Poll 11/29

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2009

11/29/2009

Week 13

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida (46)	1,483	1
2	Alabama (7)	1,416	2
3	Texas (7)	1,414	3
4	TCU	1,316	4
5	Cincinnati	1,249	5
6	Boise State	1,216	6
7	Oregon	1,104	10
8	Ohio State	1,103	9
9	Iowa	920	13
10	Penn State	897	12
11	Virginia Tech	860	14
12	Georgia Tech	820	7
13	Oregon State	719	16
14	Pittsburgh	642	8
15	LSU	614	17
16	BYU	610	18
17	Miami	572	19
18	Houston	400	25
19	California	398	21
20	USC	365	24
21	Nebraska	289	NR
22	Oklahoma State	269	11
23	Stanford	266	NR
24	West Virginia	225	NR
25	Clemson	87	15

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.