AP Poll 10/15

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2017

10/15/2017

Week 7

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (61)	1,525	1
2	Penn State	1,432	3
3	Georgia	1,417	4
4	TCU	1,322	6
5	Wisconsin	1,241	7
6	Ohio State	1,184	9
7	Clemson	1,117	2
8	Miami	1,109	11
9	Oklahoma	1,066	12
10	Oklahoma State	900	14
11	USC	886	13
12	Washington	811	5
13	Notre Dame	798	16
14	Virginia Tech	727	15
15	Washington State	578	8
16	NC State	573	20
16	South Florida	573	18
18	Michigan State	563	21
19	Michigan	558	17
20	UCF	387	22
21	Auburn	303	10
22	Stanford	274	23
23	West Virginia	157	NR
24	LSU	108	NR
25	Memphis	62	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.