AP Poll 9/6

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2016

9/6/2016

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (54)	1,518	1
2	Clemson (2)	1,416	2
3	Florida State (4)	1,413	4
4	Ohio State	1,324	6
5	Michigan (1)	1,261	7
6	Houston	1,243	15
7	Stanford	1,140	8
8	Washington	884	14
9	Georgia	877	18
10	Wisconsin	759	NR
11	Texas	743	NR
12	Michigan State	722	12
13	Louisville	686	19
14	Oklahoma	664	3
15	TCU	635	13
16	Iowa	588	17
17	Tennessee	573	9
18	Notre Dame	528	10
19	Mississippi	493	11
20	Texas A&M	477	NR
21	LSU	423	5
22	Oklahoma State	409	21
23	Baylor	296	23
24	Oregon	242	24
25	Miami	137	NR

Associated Press Poll
Started in 1936.

More Info

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.