AP Poll 11/4

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2012

11/4/2012

Week 10

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (60)	1,500	1
2	Oregon	1,421	2
3	Kansas State	1,385	3
4	Notre Dame	1,318	4
5	Georgia	1,198	7
5	Ohio State	1,198	6
7	Florida	1,112	8
8	Florida State	1,057	9
9	LSU	1,029	5
10	Clemson	931	10
11	Louisville	862	12
12	South Carolina	836	11
13	Oregon State	796	13
14	Oklahoma	765	14
15	Texas A&M	700	16
16	Stanford	655	15
17	UCLA	446	25
18	Nebraska	441	21
19	Louisiana Tech	355	22
19	Texas	355	NR
21	USC	237	18
22	Mississippi State	187	17
23	Toledo	146	NR
24	Rutgers	99	NR
25	Texas Tech	97	20

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.