AP Poll 9/23

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2012

9/23/2012

Week 4

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (59)	1,499	1
2	Oregon	1,414	3
3	LSU (1)	1,346	2
4	Florida State	1,340	4
5	Georgia	1,245	5
6	South Carolina	1,147	7
7	Kansas State	1,067	15
8	Stanford	1,055	9
9	West Virginia	1,045	8
10	Notre Dame	1,003	11
11	Florida	864	14
12	Texas	856	12
13	USC	801	13
14	Ohio State	633	16
15	TCU	616	17
16	Oklahoma	611	6
17	Clemson	588	10
18	Oregon State	451	NR
19	Louisville	414	20
20	Michigan State	348	21
21	Mississippi State	246	23
22	Nebraska	179	25
23	Rutgers	128	NR
24	Boise State	114	24
25	Baylor	92	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.