AP Poll Final

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2011

1/10/2012

Week 14

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (55)	1,495	2
2	LSU (1)	1,425	1
3	Oklahoma State (4)	1,399	3
4	Oregon	1,250	6
5	Arkansas	1,198	7
6	USC	1,181	5
7	Stanford	1,167	4
8	Boise State	1,127	8
9	South Carolina	1,013	10
10	Wisconsin	905	9
11	Michigan State	873	12
12	Michigan	839	13
13	Baylor	780	15
14	TCU	653	16
15	Kansas State	621	11
16	Oklahoma	572	19
17	West Virginia	547	23
18	Houston	518	20
19	Georgia	439	18
20	Southern Miss	411	22
21	Virginia Tech	329	17
22	Clemson	188	14
23	Florida State	154	25
24	Nebraska	143	21
25	Cincinnati	103	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.