AP Poll 10/22

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2017

10/22/2017

Week 8

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (61)	1,525	1
2	Penn State	1,444	2
3	Georgia	1,409	3
4	TCU	1,327	4
5	Wisconsin	1,241	5
6	Ohio State	1,165	6
7	Clemson	1,113	7
8	Miami	1,101	8
9	Notre Dame	1,066	13
10	Oklahoma	1,040	9
11	Oklahoma State	894	10
12	Washington	836	12
13	Virginia Tech	791	14
14	NC State	666	16
15	Washington State	648	15
16	Michigan State	615	18
17	South Florida	604	17
18	UCF	500	20
19	Auburn	397	21
20	Stanford	344	22
21	USC	319	11
22	West Virginia	196	23
23	LSU	182	24
24	Memphis	111	25
25	Iowa State	98	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.