AP Poll Final

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2017

1/9/2018

Week 15

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (57)	1,521	4
2	Georgia	1,454	3
3	Oklahoma	1,374	2
4	Clemson	1,292	1
5	Ohio State	1,286	5
6	UCF (4)	1,248	10
7	Wisconsin	1,194	6
8	Penn State	1,120	9
9	TCU	974	13
10	Auburn	917	7
11	Notre Dame	857	14
12	USC	839	8
13	Miami	769	11
14	Oklahoma State	758	17
15	Michigan State	705	18
16	Washington	668	12
17	Northwestern	528	20
18	LSU	368	16
19	Mississippi State	359	24
20	Stanford	336	15
21	South Florida	267	23
22	Boise State	251	25
23	NC State	232	NR
24	Virginia Tech	126	22
25	Memphis	119	19

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.