AP Poll 11/6

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2016

11/6/2016

Week 10

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (60)	1,524	1
2	Michigan (1)	1,432	2
3	Clemson	1,408	3
4	Washington	1,364	4
5	Louisville	1,255	5
6	Ohio State	1,245	6
7	Wisconsin	1,159	8
8	Auburn	1,081	11
9	Oklahoma	996	12
10	Texas A&M	820	7
11	West Virginia	805	14
12	Penn State	752	20
13	Utah	686	16
14	Western Michigan	583	17
15	North Carolina	559	18
16	Colorado	550	21
17	Oklahoma State	516	22
18	Virginia Tech	479	23
19	LSU	454	15
20	Florida State	450	19
21	Nebraska	434	9
22	Florida	390	10
23	Washington State	305	25
24	Boise State	226	24
25	Baylor	90	13

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.