AP Poll 9/20

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2015

9/20/2015

Week 3

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Ohio State (42)	1,490	1
2	Michigan State (7)	1,415	4
3	Mississippi (11)	1,345	15
3	TCU	1,345	3
5	Baylor	1,213	5
6	Notre Dame	1,183	8
7	Georgia	1,162	7
8	LSU (1)	1,088	13
9	UCLA	981	10
10	Florida State	953	9
11	Clemson	903	11
12	Alabama	882	2
13	Oregon	855	12
14	Texas A&M	798	17
15	Oklahoma	782	16
16	Arizona	488	20
17	Northwestern	469	23
18	Utah	439	21
19	USC	367	6
20	Georgia Tech	352	14
21	Stanford	288	NR
22	BYU	174	19
22	Wisconsin	174	24
24	Oklahoma State	149	25
25	Missouri	135	22

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.