AP Poll 9/14

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2014

9/14/2014

Week 3

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida State (37)	1,466	1
2	Oregon (17)	1,424	2
3	Alabama (1)	1,346	3
4	Oklahoma (2)	1,325	4
5	Auburn	1,252	5
6	Texas A&M (3)	1,195	7
7	Baylor	1,134	8
8	LSU	1,114	10
9	Notre Dame	917	11
10	Mississippi	840	14
11	Michigan State	832	13
12	UCLA	807	12
13	Georgia	729	6
14	South Carolina	718	24
15	Arizona State	680	16
16	Stanford	560	15
17	USC	459	9
18	Missouri	446	20
19	Wisconsin	414	18
20	Kansas State	326	19
21	BYU	246	25
22	Clemson	209	23
23	Ohio State	204	22
24	Nebraska	172	NR
25	Oklahoma State	126	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.