AP Poll 9/13

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2015

9/13/2015

Week 2

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Ohio State (59)	1,523	1
2	Alabama	1,423	2
3	TCU	1,366	3
4	Michigan State (2)	1,354	5
5	Baylor	1,240	4
6	USC	1,146	8
7	Georgia	1,031	10
8	Notre Dame	1,012	9
9	Florida State	973	11
10	UCLA	928	13
11	Clemson	926	12
12	Oregon	833	7
13	LSU	787	14
14	Georgia Tech	716	15
15	Mississippi	713	17
16	Oklahoma	705	19
17	Texas A&M	703	16
18	Auburn	519	6
19	BYU	349	NR
20	Arizona	342	22
21	Utah	290	24
22	Missouri	264	21
23	Northwestern	170	NR
24	Wisconsin	158	NR
25	Oklahoma State	48	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.