AP Poll 9/24

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2017

9/24/2017

Week 4

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (52)	1,515	1
2	Clemson (8)	1,458	2
3	Oklahoma (1)	1,397	3
4	Penn State	1,304	4
5	USC	1,247	5
6	Washington	1,188	7
7	Georgia	1,136	11
8	Michigan	1,088	8
9	TCU	1,028	16
10	Wisconsin	1,023	9
11	Ohio State	1,016	10
12	Virginia Tech	828	13
13	Auburn	701	15
14	Miami	693	14
15	Oklahoma State	665	6
16	Washington State	551	18
17	Louisville	502	19
18	South Florida	406	21
19	San Diego State	365	22
20	Utah	356	23
21	Florida	342	20
22	Notre Dame	246	NR
23	West Virginia	212	NR
24	Mississippi State	148	17
25	LSU	92	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.