AP Poll 10/21

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2012

10/21/2012

Week 8

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (59)	1,499	1
2	Oregon	1,424	2
3	Florida (1)	1,380	3
4	Kansas State	1,333	4
5	Notre Dame	1,241	5
6	LSU	1,172	6
7	Oregon State	1,106	8
8	Oklahoma	1,065	10
9	Ohio State	1,028	7
10	USC	944	11
11	Florida State	872	12
12	Georgia	745	13
13	Mississippi State	739	15
14	Clemson	713	14
15	Texas Tech	653	18
16	Louisville	620	16
17	South Carolina	591	9
18	Rutgers	539	19
19	Stanford	421	22
20	Michigan	300	23
21	Boise State	258	24
22	Texas A&M	252	20
23	Ohio	181	25
24	Louisiana Tech	106	NR
25	West Virginia	76	17

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.