AP Poll 11/16

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2014

11/16/2014

Week 12

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida State (43)	1,476	2
2	Alabama (16)	1,439	4
3	Oregon (1)	1,385	3
4	Mississippi State	1,289	1
5	TCU	1,237	5
6	Baylor	1,232	6
7	Ohio State	1,167	8
8	Mississippi	1,064	10
9	Georgia	948	16
10	Michigan State	941	12
11	UCLA	876	14
12	Kansas State	868	13
13	Arizona State	720	7
14	Wisconsin	707	22
15	Arizona	695	17
16	Auburn	531	9
17	Georgia Tech	523	24
18	Marshall	383	21
19	Missouri	376	NR
20	Utah	349	25
21	Nebraska	291	11
22	Colorado State	281	23
23	Oklahoma	206	NR
24	USC	195	NR
25	Duke	85	19

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.