AP Poll 9/22

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2013

9/22/2013

Week 4

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (56)	1,496	1
2	Oregon (4)	1,418	2
3	Clemson	1,340	3
4	Ohio State	1,320	4
5	Stanford	1,270	5
6	LSU	1,167	6
7	Louisville	1,088	7
8	Florida State	1,049	8
9	Georgia	1,029	9
10	Texas A&M	1,011	10
11	Oklahoma State	849	11
12	South Carolina	828	12
13	UCLA	798	13
14	Oklahoma	689	14
15	Miami	687	16
16	Washington	559	17
17	Northwestern	477	18
18	Michigan	450	15
19	Baylor	441	20
20	Florida	414	19
21	Mississippi	342	21
22	Notre Dame	256	22
23	Wisconsin	130	24
24	Texas Tech	127	25
25	Fresno State	110	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.