AP Poll 11/24

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2013

11/24/2013

Week 13

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (56)	1,496	1
2	Florida State (4)	1,444	2
3	Ohio State	1,375	4
4	Auburn	1,294	6
5	Missouri	1,202	8
6	Clemson	1,196	7
7	Oklahoma State	1,177	11
8	Stanford	1,002	10
9	Baylor	976	3
10	South Carolina	960	12
11	Michigan State	929	13
12	Oregon	731	5
13	Arizona State	690	19
14	Wisconsin	684	16
15	LSU	642	18
16	Fresno State	619	15
17	UCF	588	17
18	Northern Illinois	470	20
19	Texas A&M	429	9
20	Oklahoma	386	22
21	Louisville	383	21
22	UCLA	300	14
23	USC	262	23
24	Duke	135	25
25	Notre Dame	68	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.