AP Poll 9/4

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2011

9/4/2011

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (32)	1,448	1
2	LSU (17)	1,415	4
3	Alabama (9)	1,409	2
4	Boise State (2)	1,310	5
5	Florida State	1,196	6
6	Stanford	1,154	7
7	Texas A&M	1,033	8
8	Wisconsin	1,031	11
9	Oklahoma State	981	9
10	Nebraska	947	10
11	Virginia Tech	906	13
12	South Carolina	843	12
13	Oregon	828	3
14	Arkansas	752	15
15	Ohio State	606	18
16	Mississippi State	594	20
17	Michigan State	530	17
18	Florida	382	22
19	West Virginia	357	24
20	Baylor	284	NR
21	Missouri	242	21
22	South Florida	221	NR
23	Penn State	147	NR
24	Texas	135	NR
25	TCU	130	14

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.