AP Poll Final

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2013

1/7/2014

Week 16

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida State (60)	1,500	1
2	Auburn	1,428	2
3	Michigan State	1,385	4
4	South Carolina	1,247	8
5	Missouri	1,236	9
6	Oklahoma	1,205	11
7	Alabama	1,114	3
8	Clemson	1,078	12
9	Oregon	974	10
10	UCF	959	15
11	Stanford	936	5
12	Ohio State	816	7
13	Baylor	778	6
14	LSU	717	14
15	Louisville	693	18
16	UCLA	632	17
17	Oklahoma State	598	13
18	Texas A&M	459	20
19	USC	299	NR
20	Arizona State	258	16
21	Notre Dame	256	25
22	Wisconsin	245	19
23	Duke	190	22
24	Vanderbilt	117	NR
25	Washington	109	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.