AP Poll 9/4

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2018

9/4/2018

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (48)	1,511	1
2	Clemson (12)	1,467	2
3	Georgia	1,350	3
4	Ohio State	1,262	5
5	Wisconsin (1)	1,258	4
6	Oklahoma	1,251	7
7	Auburn	1,236	9
8	Notre Dame	1,080	12
9	Washington	870	6
10	Stanford	865	13
11	LSU	801	25
12	Virginia Tech	777	20
13	Penn State	768	10
14	West Virginia	762	17
15	Michigan State	684	11
16	TCU	632	16
17	USC	628	15
18	Mississippi State	538	18
19	UCF	407	21
20	Boise State	391	22
21	Michigan	318	14
22	Miami	241	8
23	Oregon	217	24
24	South Carolina	125	NR
25	Florida	89	NR

Associated Press Poll
Started in 1936.

More Info

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.