AP Poll 11/23

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2014

11/23/2014

Week 13

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida State (37)	1,458	1
2	Alabama (21)	1,445	2
3	Oregon (2)	1,393	3
4	Mississippi State	1,301	4
5	Baylor	1,234	6
6	TCU	1,233	5
7	Ohio State	1,163	7
8	Georgia	1,002	9
9	UCLA	998	11
10	Michigan State	971	10
11	Kansas State	898	12
12	Arizona	807	15
13	Arizona State	790	13
14	Wisconsin	764	14
15	Auburn	597	16
16	Georgia Tech	581	17
17	Missouri	525	19
18	Mississippi	398	8
19	Marshall	384	18
20	Oklahoma	363	23
21	Colorado State	346	22
22	Minnesota	232	NR
23	Clemson	198	NR
24	Louisville	191	NR
25	Boise State	96	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.