AP Poll 11/25

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2012

11/25/2012

Week 13

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Notre Dame (60)	1,500	1
2	Alabama	1,400	2
3	Georgia	1,331	3
4	Ohio State	1,294	4
5	Florida	1,262	6
6	Oregon	1,242	5
7	Kansas State	1,079	7
8	Stanford	1,061	11
9	LSU	1,056	8
10	Texas A&M	1,043	9
11	South Carolina	916	13
12	Oklahoma	834	14
13	Florida State	764	10
14	Nebraska	704	17
15	Clemson	667	12
16	Oregon State	528	16
17	UCLA	505	15
18	Kent State	355	23
19	Northern Illinois	349	24
20	Utah State	274	26
21	Michigan	217	20
22	Northwestern	189	NR
23	Texas	185	18
24	Oklahoma State	174	22
25	Boise State	145	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.