AP Poll 10/28

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2012

10/28/2012

Week 9

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (60)	1,500	1
2	Oregon	1,412	2
3	Kansas State	1,382	4
4	Notre Dame	1,344	5
5	LSU	1,216	6
6	Ohio State	1,158	9
7	Georgia	1,145	12
8	Florida	1,075	3
9	Florida State	1,046	11
10	Clemson	914	14
11	South Carolina	823	17
12	Louisville	817	16
13	Oregon State	762	7
14	Oklahoma	758	8
15	Stanford	627	19
16	Texas A&M	580	22
17	Mississippi State	559	13
18	USC	418	10
19	Boise State	406	21
20	Texas Tech	388	15
21	Nebraska	249	NR
22	Louisiana Tech	209	24
23	West Virginia	126	25
24	Arizona	106	NR
25	UCLA	103	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.