AP Poll 9/10

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2017

9/10/2017

Week 2

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (58)	1,522	1
2	Oklahoma (2)	1,447	5
3	Clemson (1)	1,380	3
4	USC	1,324	6
5	Penn State	1,299	4
6	Washington	1,124	7
7	Michigan	1,107	8
8	Ohio State	1,003	2
9	Oklahoma State	1,002	11
10	Wisconsin	993	9
11	Florida State	944	10
12	LSU	935	12
13	Georgia	882	15
14	Louisville	658	17
15	Auburn	591	13
16	Virginia Tech	559	18
17	Miami	542	16
18	Kansas State	475	19
19	Stanford	364	14
20	TCU	352	23
21	Washington State	233	20
22	South Florida	188	21
23	Tennessee	159	25
24	Florida	146	22
25	UCLA	119	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.