AP Poll 9/11

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2016

9/11/2016

Week 2

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (56)	1,520	1
2	Florida State (4)	1,437	3
3	Ohio State	1,359	4
4	Michigan (1)	1,298	5
5	Clemson	1,284	2
6	Houston	1,264	6
7	Stanford	1,137	7
8	Washington	983	8
9	Wisconsin	893	10
10	Louisville	890	13
11	Texas	872	11
12	Michigan State	747	12
13	Iowa	694	16
14	Oklahoma	686	14
15	Tennessee	665	17
16	Georgia	584	9
17	Texas A&M	564	20
18	Notre Dame	526	18
19	Mississippi	473	19
20	LSU	391	21
21	Baylor	305	23
22	Oregon	292	24
23	Florida	205	NR
24	Arkansas	198	NR
25	Miami	197	25

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.