AP Poll 11/20

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2011

11/20/2011

Week 11

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	LSU (60)	1,500	1
2	Alabama	1,440	3
3	Arkansas	1,376	6
4	Stanford	1,224	8
5	Oklahoma State	1,206	2
6	Virginia Tech	1,133	9
7	Boise State	1,025	10
8	Houston	1,018	11
9	Oregon	1,008	4
10	USC	964	18
11	Michigan State	876	12
12	Oklahoma	819	5
13	Georgia	815	13
14	South Carolina	762	14
15	Wisconsin	714	15
16	Kansas State	682	16
17	Michigan	527	20
18	Clemson	515	7
19	TCU	456	19
20	Penn State	398	21
21	Baylor	383	25
22	Nebraska	155	17
22	Notre Dame	155	24
24	Virginia	147	NR
25	Georgia Tech	77	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.