AP Poll Pre

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2015

7/1/2015

Preseason Poll

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Ohio State (61)	1,525	1
2	TCU	1,428	3
3	Alabama	1,322	4
4	Baylor	1,263	7
5	Michigan State	1,256	6
6	Auburn	1,192	22
7	Oregon	1,156	2
8	USC	1,085	20
9	Georgia	991	9
10	Florida State	959	5
11	Notre Dame	873	NR
12	Clemson	862	15
13	UCLA	698	10
14	LSU	675	NR
15	Arizona State	605	12
16	Georgia Tech	588	8
17	Mississippi	563	17
18	Arkansas	410	NR
19	Oklahoma	394	NR
20	Wisconsin	393	13
21	Stanford	347	NR
22	Arizona	311	19
23	Boise State	240	16
24	Missouri	219	14
25	Tennessee	114	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.