AP Poll 10/9

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2011

10/9/2011

Week 5

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	LSU (40)	1,450	1
2	Alabama (10)	1,405	2
3	Oklahoma (8)	1,382	3
4	Wisconsin	1,243	4
5	Boise State (1)	1,222	5
6	Oklahoma State	1,176	6
7	Stanford	1,164	7
8	Clemson	1,080	8
9	Oregon	1,000	9
10	Arkansas	921	10
11	Michigan	868	12
12	Georgia Tech	741	13
13	West Virginia	659	16
14	Nebraska	642	14
15	South Carolina	608	18
16	Illinois	594	19
17	Kansas State	580	20
18	Arizona State	414	22
19	Virginia Tech	410	21
20	Baylor	308	25
21	Texas A&M	251	24
22	Texas	216	11
23	Michigan State	181	NR
24	Auburn	156	15
25	Houston	142	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.