AP Poll 12/4

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2011

12/4/2011

Week 13

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	LSU (60)	1,500	1
2	Alabama	1,418	2
3	Oklahoma State	1,400	3
4	Stanford	1,283	4
5	USC	1,179	10
6	Oregon	1,170	8
7	Arkansas	1,148	6
8	Boise State	1,107	9
9	Wisconsin	1,038	15
10	South Carolina	946	14
11	Kansas State	829	16
12	Michigan State	733	11
13	Michigan	707	17
14	Clemson	663	21
15	Baylor	656	19
16	TCU	632	18
17	Virginia Tech	591	5
18	Georgia	566	12
19	Oklahoma	386	13
20	Houston	370	7
21	Nebraska	363	20
22	Southern Miss	336	24
23	West Virginia	199	22
24	Penn State	129	23
25	Florida State	49	25

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.