AP Poll 9/4

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2012

9/4/2012

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (45)	1,481	2
2	USC (11)	1,435	1
3	LSU (4)	1,382	3
4	Oregon	1,295	5
5	Oklahoma	1,170	4
6	Florida State	1,135	7
7	Georgia	1,083	6
8	Arkansas	992	10
9	South Carolina	980	9
9	West Virginia	980	11
11	Michigan State	915	13
12	Clemson	788	14
13	Wisconsin	664	12
14	Ohio State	634	18
15	Virginia Tech	604	16
16	Nebraska	603	17
17	Texas	584	15
18	Oklahoma State	558	19
19	Michigan	446	8
20	TCU	355	20
21	Kansas State	339	22
22	Notre Dame	198	NR
23	Louisville	190	25
24	Florida	145	23
25	Stanford	131	21

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.