AP Poll 11/2

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2014

11/2/2014

Week 10

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Mississippi State (45)	1,484	1
2	Florida State (15)	1,452	2
3	Auburn	1,345	4
4	Alabama	1,281	3
5	Oregon	1,275	5
6	TCU	1,148	10
7	Michigan State	1,120	8
8	Notre Dame	1,096	6
9	Kansas State	1,049	11
10	Baylor	961	12
11	Arizona State	831	15
12	Mississippi	828	7
13	Ohio State	780	13
14	LSU	717	16
15	Nebraska	680	17
16	Oklahoma	574	19
17	Georgia	465	9
18	UCLA	464	25
19	Clemson	341	22
20	Utah	327	18
21	Arizona	325	14
22	Duke	288	24
23	Marshall	238	23
24	West Virginia	159	20
25	Wisconsin	83	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.