AP Poll 11/17

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2013

11/17/2013

Week 12

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (55)	1,495	1
2	Florida State (5)	1,445	2
3	Baylor	1,351	4
4	Ohio State	1,343	3
5	Oregon	1,210	6
6	Auburn	1,205	7
7	Clemson	1,115	8
8	Missouri	1,067	9
9	Texas A&M	956	10
10	Stanford	899	5
11	Oklahoma State	889	12
12	South Carolina	870	11
13	Michigan State	749	14
14	UCLA	710	13
15	Fresno State	572	16
16	Wisconsin	559	17
17	UCF	535	15
18	LSU	439	18
19	Arizona State	430	21
20	Northern Illinois	426	20
21	Louisville	412	19
22	Oklahoma	318	22
23	USC	187	NR
24	Mississippi	119	NR
25	Duke	94	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.