AP Poll 10/26

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2014

10/26/2014

Week 9

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Mississippi State (46)	1,486	1
2	Florida State (14)	1,453	2
3	Alabama	1,290	4
4	Auburn	1,267	5
5	Oregon	1,199	6
6	Notre Dame	1,161	7
7	Mississippi	1,095	3
8	Michigan State	1,086	8
9	Georgia	1,074	9
10	TCU	1,030	10
11	Kansas State	930	11
12	Baylor	839	12
13	Ohio State	676	13
14	Arizona	669	15
15	Arizona State	667	14
16	LSU	574	24
17	Nebraska	535	16
18	Utah	524	19
19	Oklahoma	430	17
20	West Virginia	379	22
21	East Carolina	366	18
22	Clemson	265	21
23	Marshall	184	23
24	Duke	121	NR
25	UCLA	106	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.