AP Poll 9/15

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2013

9/15/2013

Week 3

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (59)	1,499	1
2	Oregon (1)	1,413	2
3	Clemson	1,347	3
4	Ohio State	1,330	4
5	Stanford	1,241	5
6	LSU	1,134	8
7	Louisville	1,092	7
8	Florida State	1,058	10
9	Georgia	1,051	9
10	Texas A&M	1,001	6
11	Oklahoma State	848	12
12	South Carolina	820	13
13	UCLA	757	16
14	Oklahoma	692	14
15	Michigan	671	11
16	Miami	653	15
17	Washington	495	19
18	Northwestern	486	17
19	Florida	411	18
20	Baylor	354	22
21	Mississippi	299	25
22	Notre Dame	276	21
23	Arizona State	228	NR
24	Wisconsin	86	20
25	Texas Tech	60	NR

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.