AP Poll Final

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2014

1/13/2015

Week 16

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Ohio State (59)	1,475	5
2	Oregon	1,402	3
3	TCU	1,349	6
4	Alabama	1,297	1
5	Florida State	1,212	2
5	Michigan State	1,212	7
7	Baylor	1,098	4
8	Georgia Tech	1,071	10
9	Georgia	925	13
10	UCLA	908	14
11	Mississippi State	767	8
12	Arizona State	756	15
13	Wisconsin	724	17
14	Missouri	710	16
15	Clemson	683	18
16	Boise State	653	21
17	Mississippi	543	9
18	Kansas State	509	11
19	Arizona	499	12
20	USC	315	24
21	Utah	302	23
22	Auburn	216	19
23	Marshall	161	NR
24	Louisville	116	20
25	Memphis	94	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.