AP Poll 9/17

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2017

9/17/2017

Week 3

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (45)	1,504	1
2	Clemson (15)	1,446	3
3	Oklahoma (1)	1,432	2
4	Penn State	1,306	5
5	USC	1,241	4
6	Oklahoma State	1,154	9
7	Washington	1,141	6
8	Michigan	1,081	7
9	Wisconsin	1,031	10
10	Ohio State	1,015	8
11	Georgia	940	13
12	Florida State	922	11
13	Virginia Tech	730	16
14	Miami	606	17
15	Auburn	596	15
16	TCU	553	20
17	Mississippi State	532	NR
18	Washington State	419	21
19	Louisville	356	14
20	Florida	308	24
21	South Florida	272	22
22	San Diego State	201	NR
23	Utah	194	NR
24	Oregon	158	NR
25	LSU	153	12

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.