AP Poll 9/5

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2017

9/5/2017

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (60)	1,524	1
2	Ohio State (1)	1,445	2
3	Clemson	1,317	5
4	Penn State	1,303	6
5	Oklahoma	1,253	7
6	USC	1,224	4
7	Washington	1,083	8
8	Michigan	1,051	11
9	Wisconsin	979	9
10	Florida State	976	3
11	Oklahoma State	950	10
12	LSU	898	13
13	Auburn	873	12
14	Stanford	772	14
15	Georgia	685	15
16	Miami	537	18
17	Louisville	529	16
18	Virginia Tech	490	21
19	Kansas State	398	20
20	Washington State	216	24
21	South Florida	207	19
22	Florida	164	17
23	TCU	154	NR
24	Notre Dame	141	NR
25	Tennessee	124	25

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.