AP Poll 10/30

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2016

10/30/2016

Week 9

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (60)	1,524	1
2	Michigan (1)	1,435	2
3	Clemson	1,401	3
4	Washington	1,369	4
5	Louisville	1,262	5
6	Ohio State	1,207	6
7	Texas A&M	1,150	9
8	Wisconsin	1,122	11
9	Nebraska	951	7
10	Florida	929	14
11	Auburn	927	15
12	Oklahoma	835	16
13	Baylor	693	8
14	West Virginia	620	10
15	LSU	586	19
16	Utah	506	17
17	Western Michigan	481	20
18	North Carolina	423	21
19	Florida State	409	12
20	Penn State	390	24
21	Colorado	375	23
22	Oklahoma State	355	NR
23	Virginia Tech	345	25
24	Boise State	203	13
25	Washington State	139	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.