AP Poll 11/13

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2016

11/13/2016

Week 11

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (61)	1,525	1
2	Ohio State	1,455	6
3	Louisville	1,357	5
4	Michigan	1,323	2
5	Clemson	1,304	3
6	Wisconsin	1,214	7
7	Washington	1,150	4
8	Oklahoma	1,064	9
9	Penn State	961	12
10	West Virginia	920	11
11	Utah	807	13
12	Colorado	797	16
13	Oklahoma State	659	17
14	Western Michigan	634	14
15	USC	584	NR
16	LSU	582	19
17	Florida State	569	20
18	Auburn	543	8
19	Nebraska	504	21
20	Washington State	501	23
21	Florida	435	22
22	Boise State	315	24
23	Texas A&M	238	10
24	San Diego State	97	NR
25	Troy	63	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.