AP Poll Final

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2016

1/10/2017

Week 15

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Clemson (60)	1,500	3
2	Alabama	1,440	1
3	USC	1,292	9
4	Washington	1,277	4
5	Oklahoma	1,252	7
6	Ohio State	1,240	2
7	Penn State	1,130	5
8	Florida State	1,105	10
9	Wisconsin	1,032	8
10	Michigan	1,001	6
11	Oklahoma State	920	13
12	Stanford	730	16
13	LSU	651	19
14	Florida	640	20
15	Western Michigan	619	12
16	Virginia Tech	610	18
17	Colorado	585	11
18	West Virginia	368	14
19	South Florida	358	25
20	Miami	338	NR
21	Louisville	277	15
22	Tennessee	253	NR
23	Utah	222	NR
24	Auburn	206	17
25	San Diego State	113	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.