AP Poll 10/14

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2012

10/14/2012

Week 7

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (60)	1,500	1
2	Oregon	1,436	2
3	Florida	1,361	4
4	Kansas State	1,296	6
5	Notre Dame	1,283	7
6	LSU	1,153	9
7	Ohio State	1,071	8
8	Oregon State	1,050	10
9	South Carolina	1,042	3
10	Oklahoma	994	13
11	USC	874	11
12	Florida State	836	12
13	Georgia	753	14
14	Clemson	673	16
15	Mississippi State	591	19
16	Louisville	574	18
17	West Virginia	552	5
18	Texas Tech	444	NR
19	Rutgers	405	20
20	Texas A&M	379	22
21	Cincinnati	294	21
22	Stanford	242	17
23	Michigan	177	25
24	Boise State	133	24
25	Ohio	104	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.