AP Poll 11/22

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2015

11/22/2015

Week 12

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Clemson (55)	1,518	1
2	Alabama (6)	1,469	3
3	Iowa	1,325	6
4	Notre Dame	1,317	5
5	Oklahoma	1,295	7
6	Michigan State	1,286	9
7	Baylor	1,161	10
8	Ohio State	1,051	2
9	Oklahoma State	995	4
10	Florida	926	8
11	North Carolina	900	12
12	Michigan	855	14
13	Stanford	816	15
14	Florida State	680	16
15	TCU	652	11
16	Navy	647	19
17	Northwestern	593	20
18	Oregon	470	23
19	Mississippi	358	25
20	Washington State	354	24
21	Houston	275	13
22	UCLA	230	NR
23	Mississippi State	132	NR
24	Toledo	123	NR
25	Temple	107	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.