AP Poll Final

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2018

1/8/2019

Week 15

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Clemson (61)	1,525	2
2	Alabama	1,462	1
3	Ohio State	1,364	5
4	Oklahoma	1,356	4
5	Notre Dame	1,286	3
6	LSU	1,119	11
7	Florida	1,103	10
7	Georgia	1,103	6
9	Texas	1,076	14
10	Washington State	959	12
11	UCF	898	7
12	Kentucky	820	16
13	Washington	806	9
14	Michigan	745	8
15	Syracuse	683	17
16	Texas A&M	552	21
17	Penn State	492	13
18	Fresno State	466	19
19	Army	418	22
20	West Virginia	296	15
21	Northwestern	284	NR
22	Utah State	188	NR
23	Boise State	184	23
24	Cincinnati	171	NR
25	Iowa	120	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.