AP Poll 11/29

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2015

11/29/2015

Week 13

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Clemson (53)	1,511	1
2	Alabama (8)	1,469	2
3	Oklahoma	1,367	5
4	Iowa	1,345	3
5	Michigan State	1,318	6
6	Ohio State	1,197	8
7	Stanford	1,137	13
8	North Carolina	1,085	11
9	Notre Dame	1,022	4
10	Florida State	951	14
11	TCU	927	15
12	Baylor	842	7
13	Northwestern	711	17
14	Oklahoma State	699	9
15	Oregon	616	18
16	Mississippi	584	19
17	Houston	571	21
18	Florida	566	10
19	Michigan	518	12
20	Temple	269	25
21	Utah	244	NR
22	Navy	206	16
23	LSU	199	NR
24	USC	189	NR
25	Wisconsin	124	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.