AP Poll 11/19

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2017

11/19/2017

Week 12

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (58)	1,522	1
2	Miami (3)	1,433	2
3	Oklahoma	1,370	3
4	Clemson	1,355	4
5	Wisconsin	1,328	5
6	Auburn	1,203	6
7	Georgia	1,157	7
8	Ohio State	1,064	8
9	Notre Dame	1,023	9
10	TCU	906	11
11	USC	891	12
12	Penn State	888	13
13	UCF	833	14
14	Washington State	697	15
15	Washington	613	16
16	Mississippi State	573	17
17	Memphis	496	18
18	Oklahoma State	422	10
19	LSU	415	21
20	Stanford	407	20
21	Michigan State	366	22
22	South Florida	247	23
23	Northwestern	232	NR
24	Virginia Tech	136	NR
25	Boise State	96	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.