AP Poll 12/2

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2012

12/2/2012

Week 14

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Notre Dame (60)	1,500	1
2	Alabama	1,424	2
3	Ohio State	1,302	4
4	Florida	1,279	5
5	Oregon	1,250	6
6	Georgia	1,213	3
7	Kansas State	1,129	7
8	Stanford	1,094	8
9	LSU	1,051	9
10	Texas A&M	1,025	10
11	South Carolina	907	11
12	Oklahoma	851	12
13	Florida State	789	13
14	Clemson	691	15
15	Oregon State	638	16
16	Northern Illinois	534	19
17	UCLA	440	17
18	Utah State	379	20
19	Michigan	306	21
20	Boise State	276	25
21	Northwestern	266	22
22	Louisville	248	NR
23	Nebraska	227	14
24	San Jose State	157	NR
25	Kent State	117	18

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.