AP Poll 11/30

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2014

11/30/2014

Week 14

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (25)	1,426	2
2	Florida State (29)	1,423	1
3	Oregon (5)	1,391	3
4	TCU	1,274	6
5	Baylor	1,243	5
6	Ohio State	1,192	7
7	Michigan State	1,048	10
8	Arizona	1,027	12
9	Kansas State	995	11
10	Mississippi State	944	4
11	Wisconsin	910	14
12	Georgia Tech	823	16
13	Mississippi	753	18
14	Missouri	740	17
15	Georgia	606	8
16	UCLA	512	9
17	Arizona State	495	13
18	Oklahoma	485	20
19	Clemson	418	23
20	Auburn	358	15
21	Louisville	346	24
22	Boise State	265	25
23	LSU	145	NR
24	Utah	79	NR
25	Nebraska	64	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.