AP Poll 9/25

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2011

9/25/2011

Week 3

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	LSU (42)	1,471	2
2	Oklahoma (12)	1,422	1
3	Alabama (5)	1,413	3
4	Boise State (1)	1,280	4
5	Oklahoma State	1,209	7
6	Stanford	1,205	5
7	Wisconsin	1,177	6
8	Nebraska	991	9
9	Oregon	985	10
10	South Carolina	950	12
11	Virginia Tech	883	13
12	Florida	820	15
13	Clemson	744	21
14	Texas A&M	734	8
15	Baylor	659	17
16	South Florida	585	18
17	Texas	466	19
18	Arkansas	434	14
19	Michigan	417	22
20	TCU	338	20
21	Georgia Tech	298	25
22	West Virginia	280	16
23	Florida State	239	11
24	Illinois	179	24
25	Arizona State	112	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.