AP Poll 9/3

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2013

9/3/2013

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (58)	1,497	1
2	Oregon	1,355	3
3	Ohio State (1)	1,330	2
4	Clemson (1)	1,304	8
5	Stanford	1,277	4
6	South Carolina	1,181	6
7	Texas A&M	1,085	7
8	Louisville	1,073	9
9	LSU	971	12
10	Florida State	953	11
11	Georgia	894	5
12	Florida	875	10
13	Oklahoma State	780	13
14	Notre Dame	707	14
15	Texas	674	15
16	Oklahoma	612	16
17	Michigan	583	17
18	UCLA	387	21
19	Northwestern	320	22
20	Washington	315	NR
21	Wisconsin	287	23
22	Nebraska	219	18
23	Baylor	150	NR
24	TCU	148	20
25	USC	135	24

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.