AP Poll 9/2

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2014

9/2/2014

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida State (46)	1,456	1
2	Alabama (1)	1,317	2
3	Oregon (5)	1,314	3
4	Oklahoma (2)	1,283	4
5	Auburn	1,186	6
6	Georgia (2)	1,114	12
7	Michigan State	1,093	8
8	Ohio State	982	5
9	Texas A&M (2)	978	21
10	Baylor	962	10
11	UCLA	944	7
12	LSU (1)	926	13
13	Stanford	886	11
14	USC	729	15
15	Mississippi	525	18
16	Notre Dame	519	17
17	Arizona State	431	19
18	Wisconsin	364	14
19	Nebraska	352	22
20	Kansas State	325	20
21	North Carolina	196	23
21	South Carolina	196	9
23	Clemson	164	16
24	Missouri	147	24
25	Louisville	141	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.