AP Poll 11/13

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2011

11/13/2011

Week 10

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	LSU (60)	1,500	1
2	Oklahoma State	1,432	2
3	Alabama	1,380	4
4	Oregon	1,326	6
5	Oklahoma	1,230	7
6	Arkansas	1,217	8
7	Clemson	1,075	9
8	Stanford	1,071	3
9	Virginia Tech	1,000	10
10	Boise State	880	5
11	Houston	867	11
12	Michigan State	767	13
13	Georgia	756	14
14	South Carolina	706	15
15	Wisconsin	676	16
16	Kansas State	629	17
17	Nebraska	583	19
18	USC	564	18
19	TCU	402	NR
20	Michigan	381	22
21	Penn State	320	12
22	Southern Miss	250	25
23	Florida State	107	NR
24	Notre Dame	93	NR
25	Baylor	68	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.