AP Poll 9/30

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2012

9/30/2012

Week 5

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (60)	1,500	1
2	Oregon	1,430	2
3	Florida State	1,349	4
4	LSU	1,310	3
5	Georgia	1,252	5
6	South Carolina	1,152	6
7	Kansas State	1,123	7
8	West Virginia	1,066	9
9	Notre Dame	1,043	10
10	Florida	937	11
11	Texas	932	12
12	Ohio State	793	14
13	USC	703	13
14	Oregon State	647	18
15	Clemson	608	17
15	TCU	608	15
17	Oklahoma	581	16
18	Stanford	509	8
19	Louisville	404	19
20	Mississippi State	306	21
21	Nebraska	240	22
22	Rutgers	160	23
23	Washington	159	NR
24	Northwestern	143	NR
25	UCLA	122	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.