AP Poll Pre

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2014

7/1/2014

Preseason Poll

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida State (57)	1,496	1
2	Alabama (1)	1,361	7
3	Oregon (1)	1,334	9
4	Oklahoma (1)	1,324	6
5	Ohio State	1,207	12
6	Auburn	1,198	2
7	UCLA	1,106	16
8	Michigan State	1,080	3
9	South Carolina	1,015	4
10	Baylor	966	13
11	Stanford	885	11
12	Georgia	843	NR
13	LSU	776	14
14	Wisconsin	637	22
15	USC	626	19
16	Clemson	536	8
17	Notre Dame	445	21
18	Mississippi	424	NR
19	Arizona State	357	20
20	Kansas State	242	NR
21	Texas A&M	238	18
22	Nebraska	226	NR
23	North Carolina	194	NR
24	Missouri	134	5
25	Washington	130	25

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.