AP Poll 10/2

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2011

10/2/2011

Week 4

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	LSU (40)	1,473	1
2	Alabama (12)	1,435	3
3	Oklahoma (7)	1,397	2
4	Wisconsin	1,266	7
5	Boise State (1)	1,248	4
6	Oklahoma State	1,191	5
7	Stanford	1,185	6
8	Clemson	1,093	13
9	Oregon	1,028	9
10	Arkansas	860	18
11	Texas	833	17
12	Michigan	812	19
13	Georgia Tech	667	21
14	Nebraska	555	8
15	Auburn	550	NR
16	West Virginia	544	22
17	Florida	498	12
18	South Carolina	487	10
19	Illinois	428	24
20	Kansas State	349	NR
21	Virginia Tech	341	11
22	Arizona State	256	25
23	Florida State	237	23
24	Texas A&M	216	14
25	Baylor	186	15

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.