AP Poll 10/30

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2011

10/30/2011

Week 8

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	LSU (47)	1,439	1
2	Alabama (10)	1,401	2
3	Oklahoma State	1,305	3
4	Stanford	1,278	4
5	Boise State (1)	1,241	5
6	Oregon	1,148	7
7	Oklahoma	1,096	11
8	Arkansas	1,035	8
9	Nebraska	976	13
10	South Carolina	861	14
11	Clemson	851	6
12	Virginia Tech	755	15
13	Michigan	718	17
14	Houston	611	18
15	Michigan State	586	9
16	Penn State	553	21
17	Kansas State	536	10
18	Georgia	446	22
19	Wisconsin	420	12
20	Arizona State	384	23
21	USC	323	20
22	Georgia Tech	230	NR
23	Cincinnati	128	24
24	West Virginia	111	25
25	Auburn	107	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.