AP Poll 11/27

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2016

11/27/2016

Week 13

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (61)	1,525	1
2	Ohio State	1,456	2
3	Clemson	1,383	4
4	Washington	1,298	6
5	Michigan	1,264	3
6	Wisconsin	1,237	5
7	Oklahoma	1,141	7
8	Penn State	1,118	8
9	Colorado	1,035	9
10	USC	948	12
11	Oklahoma State	931	10
12	Florida State	847	15
13	Western Michigan	807	14
14	West Virginia	726	19
15	Florida	471	13
16	Louisville	468	11
17	Stanford	452	NR
18	Auburn	423	16
19	Virginia Tech	420	NR
20	Navy	387	NR
21	LSU	338	25
22	Iowa	217	NR
23	Nebraska	181	17
24	Pittsburgh	168	NR
24	South Florida	168	NR

Associated Press Poll
Started in 1936.

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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.