AP Poll Final

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2009

1/7/2010

Week 15

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (60)	1,500	1
2	Texas	1,399	2
3	Florida	1,370	5
4	Boise State	1,366	6
5	Ohio State	1,224	8
6	TCU	1,163	3
7	Iowa	1,126	10
8	Cincinnati	1,060	4
9	Penn State	1,016	11
10	Virginia Tech	953	12
11	Oregon	886	7
12	BYU	806	15
13	Georgia Tech	768	9
14	Nebraska	724	20
15	Pittsburgh	697	17
16	Wisconsin	571	24
17	LSU	501	13
18	Utah	491	23
19	Miami	310	14
20	Mississippi	296	NR
21	Texas Tech	224	NR
22	USC	216	NR
23	Central Michigan	166	NR
24	Clemson	125	NR
25	West Virginia	91	18

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.