AP Poll 9/11

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2011

9/11/2011

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (31)	1,440	1
2	Alabama (10)	1,423	3
3	LSU (17)	1,417	2
4	Boise State (2)	1,307	4
5	Florida State	1,195	5
6	Stanford	1,161	6
7	Wisconsin	1,091	8
8	Oklahoma State	1,035	9
9	Texas A&M	1,025	7
10	South Carolina	892	12
11	Nebraska	889	10
12	Oregon	846	13
13	Virginia Tech	827	11
14	Arkansas	770	14
15	Michigan State	602	17
16	Florida	515	18
17	Ohio State	459	15
18	West Virginia	416	19
19	Baylor	371	20
20	South Florida	351	22
21	Auburn	348	NR
22	Arizona State	308	NR
23	TCU	161	25
23	Texas	161	24
25	Mississippi State	124	16

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.