AP Poll 9/16

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2012

9/16/2012

Week 3

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (58)	1,498	1
2	LSU (2)	1,433	3
3	Oregon	1,356	4
4	Florida State	1,275	5
5	Georgia	1,203	7
6	Oklahoma	1,181	6
7	South Carolina	1,081	8
8	West Virginia	1,051	9
9	Stanford	1,009	21
10	Clemson	899	11
11	Notre Dame	854	20
12	Texas	816	14
13	USC	776	2
14	Florida	743	18
15	Kansas State	683	15
16	Ohio State	680	12
17	TCU	535	16
18	Michigan	448	17
19	UCLA	429	22
20	Louisville	366	19
21	Michigan State	318	10
22	Arizona	296	24
23	Mississippi State	106	NR
24	Boise State	95	NR
25	Nebraska	80	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.