AP Poll 10/6

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2013

10/6/2013

Week 6

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (55)	1,495	1
2	Oregon (5)	1,424	2
3	Clemson	1,359	3
4	Ohio State	1,305	4
5	Stanford	1,278	5
6	Florida State	1,158	8
7	Georgia	1,138	6
8	Louisville	1,051	7
9	Texas A&M	1,003	9
10	LSU	993	10
11	UCLA	844	12
12	Oklahoma	819	11
13	Miami	780	14
14	South Carolina	764	13
15	Baylor	681	17
16	Washington	556	15
17	Florida	536	18
18	Michigan	514	19
19	Northwestern	418	16
20	Texas Tech	358	20
21	Fresno State	258	23
22	Oklahoma State	204	21
23	Northern Illinois	138	NR
24	Virginia Tech	115	NR
25	Missouri	105	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.