AP Poll 11/15

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2015

11/15/2015

Week 11

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Clemson (34)	1,496	1
2	Ohio State (23)	1,460	2
3	Alabama (4)	1,424	3
4	Oklahoma State	1,301	5
5	Notre Dame	1,286	6
6	Iowa	1,216	8
7	Oklahoma	1,182	12
8	Florida	1,055	11
9	Michigan State	1,008	14
10	Baylor	946	4
11	TCU	857	13
12	North Carolina	791	17
13	Houston	790	16
14	Michigan	738	15
15	Stanford	668	7
16	Florida State	559	19
17	LSU	549	9
18	Utah	514	10
19	Navy	465	22
20	Northwestern	397	24
21	Wisconsin	338	23
22	USC	201	NR
23	Oregon	170	NR
24	Washington State	167	NR
25	Mississippi	44	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.