AP Poll 10/28

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2018

10/28/2018

Week 9

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (60)	1,500	1
2	Clemson	1,433	2
3	Notre Dame	1,374	3
4	LSU	1,317	4
5	Michigan	1,240	5
6	Georgia	1,202	7
7	Oklahoma	1,132	8
8	Ohio State	1,022	11
9	UCF	1,014	10
10	Washington State	938	14
11	Kentucky	905	12
12	West Virginia	891	13
13	Florida	734	9
14	Penn State	733	17
15	Texas	719	6
16	Utah	593	23
17	Houston	403	NR
18	Utah State	340	NR
19	Iowa	323	18
20	Fresno State	261	NR
21	Mississippi State	204	NR
22	Syracuse	192	NR
23	Virginia	175	NR
24	Boston College	169	NR
25	Texas A&M	132	16

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.