AP Poll 9/12

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2010

9/12/2010

Week 2

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (52)	1,466	1
2	Ohio State (5)	1,410	2
3	Boise State (1)	1,306	3
4	TCU	1,235	4
5	Oregon	1,172	7
6	Texas (1)	1,150	5
7	Oklahoma	1,123	10
8	Nebraska	1,083	6
9	Iowa	1,037	9
10	Florida	1,036	8
11	Wisconsin	855	11
12	Arkansas	755	14
13	South Carolina	642	24
14	Utah	627	20
15	LSU	595	19
16	Auburn	538	21
17	Miami	530	12
18	USC	481	16
19	Stanford	446	25
20	Michigan	437	NR
21	West Virginia	197	23
22	Penn State	171	18
23	Houston	169	NR
24	Arizona	138	NR
25	Oregon State	75	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.