AP Poll 10/13

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2013

10/13/2013

Week 7

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (55)	1,495	1
2	Oregon (5)	1,438	2
3	Clemson	1,352	3
4	Ohio State	1,330	4
5	Florida State	1,242	6
6	LSU	1,137	10
7	Texas A&M	1,105	9
8	Louisville	1,077	8
9	UCLA	1,017	11
10	Miami	912	13
11	South Carolina	896	14
12	Baylor	849	15
13	Stanford	824	5
14	Missouri	749	25
15	Georgia	615	7
16	Texas Tech	590	20
17	Fresno State	383	21
18	Oklahoma	380	12
19	Virginia Tech	352	24
20	Washington	309	16
21	Oklahoma State	264	22
22	Florida	249	17
23	Northern Illinois	185	23
24	Auburn	156	NR
25	Wisconsin	153	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.