AP Poll 10/7

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2012

10/7/2012

Week 6

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (60)	1,500	1
2	Oregon	1,435	2
3	South Carolina	1,359	6
4	Florida	1,265	10
5	West Virginia	1,260	8
6	Kansas State	1,217	7
7	Notre Dame	1,176	9
8	Ohio State	1,053	12
9	LSU	938	4
10	Oregon State	873	14
11	USC	812	13
12	Florida State	800	3
13	Oklahoma	756	17
14	Georgia	733	5
15	Texas	711	11
16	Clemson	657	15
17	Stanford	587	18
18	Louisville	494	19
19	Mississippi State	450	20
20	Rutgers	331	22
21	Cincinnati	205	NR
22	Texas A&M	153	NR
23	Louisiana Tech	129	NR
24	Boise State	114	NR
25	Michigan	82	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.