AP Poll 10/1

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2017

10/1/2017

Week 5

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (44)	1,506	1
2	Clemson (17)	1,475	2
3	Oklahoma	1,392	3
4	Penn State	1,325	4
5	Georgia	1,237	7
6	Washington	1,218	6
7	Michigan	1,115	8
8	TCU	1,079	9
9	Wisconsin	1,028	10
10	Ohio State	1,016	11
11	Washington State	980	16
12	Auburn	802	13
13	Miami	782	14
14	USC	713	5
15	Oklahoma State	664	15
16	Virginia Tech	549	12
17	Louisville	507	17
18	South Florida	440	18
19	San Diego State	373	19
20	Utah	358	20
21	Florida	349	21
21	Notre Dame	349	22
23	West Virginia	221	23
24	NC State	149	NR
25	UCF	120	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.