AP Poll 12/2

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2018

12/2/2018

Week 14

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (61)	1,525	1
2	Clemson	1,460	2
3	Notre Dame	1,405	3
4	Oklahoma	1,327	5
5	Ohio State	1,254	6
6	Georgia	1,247	4
7	UCF	1,158	7
8	Michigan	1,076	8
9	Washington	992	10
10	Florida	894	11
11	LSU	847	12
12	Washington State	845	13
13	Penn State	773	14
14	Texas	763	9
15	West Virginia	694	15
16	Kentucky	639	16
17	Syracuse	516	18
18	Mississippi State	375	20
19	Fresno State	373	25
20	Utah	362	17
21	Texas A&M	359	22
22	Army	209	23
23	Boise State	144	19
24	Missouri	133	NR
25	Iowa State	110	24

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.