AP Poll 10/16

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2016

10/16/2016

Week 7

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (60)	1,524	1
2	Ohio State	1,457	2
3	Michigan (1)	1,368	4
4	Clemson	1,337	3
5	Washington	1,304	5
6	Texas A&M	1,218	6
7	Louisville	1,168	7
8	Nebraska	1,037	10
9	Baylor	1,021	11
10	Wisconsin	935	8
11	Houston	766	13
12	West Virginia	744	20
13	Florida State	733	14
14	Boise State	694	15
15	Florida	626	18
16	Oklahoma	612	19
17	Arkansas	584	22
18	Tennessee	550	9
19	Utah	479	21
20	Western Michigan	285	24
21	Auburn	277	23
22	North Carolina	254	NR
23	Mississippi	188	12
24	Navy	163	25
25	LSU	123	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.