AP Poll 11/18

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2012

11/18/2012

Week 12

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Notre Dame (60)	1,500	3
2	Alabama	1,399	4
3	Georgia	1,316	5
4	Ohio State	1,292	6
5	Oregon	1,246	1
6	Florida	1,171	7
7	Kansas State	1,064	2
8	LSU	1,048	8
9	Texas A&M	1,028	9
10	Florida State	1,026	10
11	Stanford	991	14
12	Clemson	874	11
13	South Carolina	795	12
14	Oklahoma	734	13
15	UCLA	624	17
16	Oregon State	599	15
17	Nebraska	559	16
18	Texas	498	18
19	Louisville	362	20
20	Michigan	282	23
21	Rutgers	265	22
22	Oklahoma State	240	NR
23	Kent State	155	25
24	Northern Illinois	144	NR
25	Mississippi State	82	NR
25	Utah State	82	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.