AP Poll 10/20

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2013

10/20/2013

Week 8

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (55)	1,495	1
2	Oregon (3)	1,427	2
3	Florida State (2)	1,395	5
4	Ohio State	1,309	4
5	Missouri	1,197	14
6	Baylor	1,189	12
7	Miami	1,130	10
8	Stanford	1,118	13
9	Clemson	927	3
10	Texas Tech	904	16
11	Auburn	867	24
12	UCLA	832	9
13	LSU	739	6
14	Texas A&M	683	7
15	Fresno State	550	17
16	Virginia Tech	509	19
17	Oklahoma	501	18
18	Louisville	428	8
19	Oklahoma State	382	21
20	South Carolina	381	11
21	UCF	345	NR
22	Wisconsin	258	25
23	Northern Illinois	220	23
24	Michigan	169	NR
25	Nebraska	117	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.