AP Poll 9/19

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2010

9/19/2010

Week 3

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (53)	1,492	1
2	Ohio State (5)	1,435	2
3	Boise State (1)	1,333	3
4	TCU	1,280	4
5	Oregon	1,238	5
6	Nebraska	1,175	8
7	Texas (1)	1,164	6
8	Oklahoma	1,114	7
9	Florida	1,044	10
10	Arkansas	903	12
11	Wisconsin	803	11
12	South Carolina	739	13
13	Utah	703	14
14	Arizona	663	24
15	LSU	654	15
16	Stanford	606	19
17	Auburn	600	16
18	Iowa	482	9
19	Miami	472	17
20	USC	414	18
21	Michigan	291	20
22	West Virginia	258	21
23	Penn State	198	22
24	Oregon State	75	25
25	Michigan State	45	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.