AP Poll 9/18

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2011

9/18/2011

Week 2

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (37)	1,471	1
2	LSU (14)	1,424	3
3	Alabama (7)	1,402	2
4	Boise State (2)	1,309	4
5	Stanford	1,212	6
6	Wisconsin	1,170	7
7	Oklahoma State	1,092	8
8	Texas A&M	1,043	9
9	Nebraska	911	11
10	Oregon	899	12
11	Florida State	896	5
12	South Carolina	891	10
13	Virginia Tech	830	13
14	Arkansas	781	14
15	Florida	669	16
16	West Virginia	579	18
17	Baylor	521	19
18	South Florida	496	20
19	Texas	402	24
20	TCU	273	23
21	Clemson	272	NR
22	Michigan	266	NR
23	USC	260	NR
24	Illinois	106	NR
25	Georgia Tech	59	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.