AP Poll 12/7

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2014

12/7/2014

Week 15

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (27)	1,452	1
2	Florida State (25)	1,436	2
3	Oregon (8)	1,426	3
4	Baylor	1,265	5
5	Ohio State	1,262	6
6	TCU	1,257	4
7	Michigan State	1,105	7
8	Mississippi State	1,070	10
9	Mississippi	976	13
10	Georgia Tech	876	12
11	Kansas State	875	9
12	Arizona	819	8
13	Georgia	745	15
14	UCLA	663	16
15	Arizona State	602	17
16	Missouri	599	14
17	Wisconsin	542	11
18	Clemson	509	19
19	Auburn	450	20
20	Louisville	406	21
21	Boise State	368	22
22	LSU	221	23
23	Utah	134	24
24	USC	112	NR
25	Nebraska	79	25

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.