AP Poll 9/8

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2015

9/8/2015

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Ohio State (61)	1,525	1
2	Alabama	1,420	3
3	TCU	1,365	2
4	Baylor	1,252	4
5	Michigan State	1,198	5
6	Auburn	1,166	6
7	Oregon	1,081	7
8	USC	1,074	8
9	Notre Dame	1,061	11
10	Georgia	981	9
11	Florida State	942	10
12	Clemson	862	12
13	UCLA	833	13
14	LSU	653	14
15	Georgia Tech	636	16
16	Texas A&M	629	NR
17	Mississippi	600	17
18	Arkansas	480	18
19	Oklahoma	469	19
20	Boise State	279	23
21	Missouri	274	24
22	Arizona	259	22
23	Tennessee	169	25
24	Utah	137	NR
25	Mississippi State	104	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.