AP Poll 11/9

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2014

11/9/2014

Week 11

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Mississippi State (48)	1,488	1
2	Florida State (12)	1,446	2
3	Oregon	1,334	5
4	Alabama	1,326	4
5	TCU	1,273	6
6	Baylor	1,193	10
7	Arizona State	1,142	11
8	Ohio State	1,086	13
9	Auburn	981	3
10	Mississippi	948	12
11	Nebraska	830	15
12	Michigan State	782	7
13	Kansas State	742	9
14	UCLA	691	18
15	Notre Dame	630	8
16	Georgia	622	17
17	Arizona	471	21
18	Clemson	457	19
19	Duke	431	22
20	LSU	429	14
21	Marshall	297	23
22	Wisconsin	225	25
23	Colorado State	128	NR
24	Georgia Tech	127	NR
25	Utah	87	20

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.