AP Poll 11/11

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2012

11/11/2012

Week 11

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oregon (45)	1,485	2
2	Kansas State (14)	1,451	3
3	Notre Dame (1)	1,382	4
4	Alabama	1,259	1
5	Georgia	1,223	5
6	Ohio State	1,212	6
7	Florida	1,089	7
8	LSU	1,046	9
9	Texas A&M	1,031	15
10	Florida State	1,024	8
11	Clemson	907	10
12	South Carolina	848	12
13	Oklahoma	798	14
14	Stanford	766	16
15	Oregon State	556	13
16	Nebraska	549	18
17	UCLA	541	17
18	Texas	496	20
19	Louisiana Tech	374	19
20	Louisville	322	11
21	USC	297	21
22	Rutgers	179	24
23	Michigan	135	NR
23	Texas Tech	135	25
25	Kent State	93	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.