AP Poll 9/16

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2018

9/16/2018

Week 3

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (58)	1,521	1
2	Georgia	1,416	3
3	Clemson (3)	1,405	2
4	Ohio State	1,357	4
5	Oklahoma	1,283	5
6	LSU	1,241	12
7	Stanford	1,055	9
8	Notre Dame	1,034	8
9	Auburn	958	7
10	Penn State	947	11
10	Washington	947	10
12	West Virginia	841	14
13	Virginia Tech	816	13
14	Mississippi State	790	16
15	Oklahoma State	587	24
16	UCF	556	18
17	TCU	502	15
18	Wisconsin	486	6
19	Michigan	448	19
20	Oregon	399	20
21	Miami	362	21
22	Texas A&M	193	NR
23	Boston College	130	NR
24	Michigan State	86	25
25	BYU	75	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.