AP Poll 10/18

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2015

10/18/2015

Week 7

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Ohio State (28)	1,428	1
2	Baylor (12)	1,416	2
3	Utah (16)	1,362	4
4	TCU (3)	1,338	3
5	LSU (1)	1,306	6
6	Clemson (1)	1,252	5
7	Michigan State	1,202	7
8	Alabama	1,133	10
9	Florida State	1,041	11
10	Stanford	917	15
11	Notre Dame	898	14
12	Iowa	820	17
13	Florida	785	8
14	Oklahoma State	735	16
15	Michigan	614	12
15	Texas A&M	614	9
17	Oklahoma	565	19
18	Memphis	554	NR
19	Toledo	346	22
20	California	337	23
21	Houston	318	24
22	Temple	217	NR
23	Duke	211	25
24	Mississippi	158	13
25	Pittsburgh	73	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.