AP Poll 9/23

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2018

9/23/2018

Week 4

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (60)	1,523	1
2	Georgia	1,422	2
3	Clemson (1)	1,409	3
4	Ohio State	1,363	4
5	LSU	1,238	6
6	Oklahoma	1,201	5
7	Stanford	1,143	7
8	Notre Dame	1,067	8
9	Penn State	1,001	10
10	Auburn	987	9
11	Washington	946	11
12	West Virginia	923	12
13	UCF	727	16
14	Michigan	698	19
15	Wisconsin	662	18
16	Miami	571	21
17	Kentucky	541	NR
18	Texas	308	NR
19	Oregon	297	20
20	BYU	270	25
21	Michigan State	256	24
22	Duke	244	NR
23	Mississippi State	241	14
24	California	118	NR
25	Texas Tech	106	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.