AP Poll 10/21

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2018

10/21/2018

Week 8

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (61)	1,525	1
2	Clemson	1,454	3
3	Notre Dame	1,400	4
4	LSU	1,327	5
5	Michigan	1,250	6
6	Texas	1,186	7
7	Georgia	1,136	8
8	Oklahoma	1,065	9
9	Florida	998	11
10	UCF	996	10
11	Ohio State	985	2
12	Kentucky	754	14
13	West Virginia	747	13
14	Washington State	692	25
15	Washington	677	15
16	Texas A&M	622	17
17	Penn State	528	18
18	Iowa	489	19
19	Oregon	450	12
20	Wisconsin	357	23
21	South Florida	291	21
22	NC State	186	16
23	Utah	180	NR
24	Stanford	144	NR
25	Appalachian State	79	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.