AP Poll 9/25

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2016

9/25/2016

Week 4

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (50)	1,511	1
2	Ohio State (4)	1,440	2
3	Louisville (6)	1,409	3
4	Michigan (1)	1,292	4
5	Clemson	1,267	5
6	Houston	1,239	6
7	Stanford	1,166	7
8	Wisconsin	1,084	11
9	Texas A&M	1,036	10
10	Washington	986	9
11	Tennessee	909	14
12	Florida State	804	13
13	Baylor	729	16
14	Miami	696	15
15	Nebraska	640	20
16	Mississippi	540	23
17	Michigan State	527	8
18	Utah	493	24
19	San Diego State	304	22
20	Arkansas	241	17
21	TCU	239	NR
22	Texas	217	21
23	Florida	176	19
24	Boise State	163	NR
25	Georgia	142	12

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.