AP Poll 10/27

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2013

10/27/2013

Week 9

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (55)	1,495	1
2	Oregon (3)	1,432	2
3	Florida State (2)	1,390	3
4	Ohio State	1,317	4
5	Baylor	1,223	6
6	Stanford	1,189	8
7	Miami	1,149	7
8	Auburn	1,022	11
9	Clemson	1,007	9
10	Missouri	873	5
11	LSU	818	13
12	Texas A&M	811	14
13	Oklahoma	791	17
14	South Carolina	701	20
15	Texas Tech	579	10
16	Fresno State	510	15
17	UCLA	489	12
18	Oklahoma State	483	19
19	UCF	464	21
20	Louisville	417	18
21	Northern Illinois	290	23
22	Wisconsin	262	22
23	Michigan	199	24
24	Michigan State	166	NR
25	Arizona State	133	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.