AP Poll 11/6

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2011

11/6/2011

Week 9

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	LSU (59)	1,499	1
2	Oklahoma State	1,398	3
3	Stanford	1,369	4
4	Alabama	1,334	2
5	Boise State (1)	1,288	5
6	Oregon	1,184	6
7	Oklahoma	1,138	7
8	Arkansas	1,107	8
9	Clemson	979	11
10	Virginia Tech	885	12
11	Houston	804	14
12	Penn State	725	16
13	Michigan State	718	15
14	Georgia	657	18
15	South Carolina	654	10
16	Wisconsin	602	19
17	Kansas State	546	17
18	USC	502	21
19	Nebraska	491	9
20	Georgia Tech	340	22
21	Texas	313	NR
22	Michigan	264	13
23	Cincinnati	206	23
24	Auburn	181	25
25	Southern Miss	161	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.