AP Poll 11/18

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2018

11/18/2018

Week 12

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (61)	1,525	1
2	Clemson	1,455	2
3	Notre Dame	1,412	3
4	Michigan	1,327	4
5	Georgia	1,288	5
6	Oklahoma	1,182	6
7	Washington State	1,149	8
8	LSU	1,064	10
8	UCF	1,064	11
10	Ohio State	1,019	9
11	Texas	856	13
12	West Virginia	822	7
13	Florida	707	15
14	Utah State	667	14
15	Penn State	659	16
16	Washington	631	17
17	Kentucky	508	20
18	Utah	491	21
19	Syracuse	427	12
20	Northwestern	307	24
21	Boise State	287	23
22	Mississippi State	260	25
23	Army	176	NR
24	Pittsburgh	129	NR
25	Iowa State	123	18

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.