AP Poll 9/8

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2013

9/8/2013

Week 2

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (57)	1,494	1
2	Oregon (1)	1,385	2
3	Clemson (1)	1,332	4
4	Ohio State (1)	1,327	3
5	Stanford	1,271	5
6	Texas A&M	1,133	7
7	Louisville	1,105	8
8	LSU	1,075	9
9	Georgia	1,036	11
10	Florida State	1,011	10
11	Michigan	872	17
12	Oklahoma State	834	13
13	South Carolina	829	6
14	Oklahoma	675	16
15	Miami	615	NR
16	UCLA	488	18
17	Northwestern	452	19
18	Florida	405	12
19	Washington	392	20
20	Wisconsin	378	21
21	Notre Dame	333	14
22	Baylor	295	23
23	Nebraska	277	22
24	TCU	170	24
25	Mississippi	78	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.