AP Poll 10/12

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2014

10/12/2014

Week 7

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Mississippi State (45)	1,480	4
2	Florida State (12)	1,415	1
3	Mississippi (3)	1,413	3
4	Baylor	1,317	5
5	Notre Dame	1,228	6
6	Auburn	1,144	2
7	Alabama	1,068	7
8	Michigan State	1,015	8
9	Oregon	1,014	12
10	Georgia	981	13
11	Oklahoma	935	11
12	TCU	917	9
13	Ohio State	648	15
14	Kansas State	626	17
15	Oklahoma State	620	16
16	Arizona	590	10
17	Arizona State	459	20
18	East Carolina	449	19
19	Nebraska	402	21
20	Utah	305	24
21	Texas A&M	264	14
22	USC	258	NR
23	Stanford	223	25
24	Clemson	188	NR
25	Marshall	148	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.