AP Poll 10/8

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2017

10/8/2017

Week 6

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (43)	1,507	1
2	Clemson (18)	1,481	2
3	Penn State	1,370	4
4	Georgia	1,327	5
5	Washington	1,284	6
6	TCU	1,192	8
7	Wisconsin	1,127	9
8	Washington State	1,094	11
9	Ohio State	1,051	10
10	Auburn	914	12
11	Miami	908	13
12	Oklahoma	851	3
13	USC	795	14
14	Oklahoma State	712	15
15	Virginia Tech	617	16
16	Notre Dame	583	22
17	Michigan	524	7
18	South Florida	482	18
19	San Diego State	465	19
20	NC State	421	24
21	Michigan State	416	NR
22	UCF	274	25
23	Stanford	109	NR
24	Texas Tech	105	NR
25	Navy	74	NR

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.