AP Poll 9/9

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2012

9/9/2012

Week 2

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (48)	1,486	1
2	USC (8)	1,414	2
3	LSU (4)	1,404	3
4	Oregon	1,299	4
5	Florida State	1,160	6
5	Oklahoma	1,160	5
7	Georgia	1,155	7
8	South Carolina	1,025	9
9	West Virginia	1,017	10
10	Michigan State	995	11
11	Clemson	868	12
12	Ohio State	772	14
13	Virginia Tech	734	15
14	Texas	716	17
15	Kansas State	714	21
16	TCU	542	20
17	Michigan	429	19
18	Florida	427	24
19	Louisville	316	23
20	Notre Dame	310	22
21	Stanford	260	25
22	UCLA	250	NR
23	Tennessee	177	NR
24	Arizona	149	NR
25	BYU	110	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.