AP Poll Pre

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2019

7/1/2019

Preseason Poll

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Clemson (52)	1,540	1
2	Alabama (10)	1,496	2
3	Georgia	1,403	8
4	Oklahoma	1,331	4
5	Ohio State	1,261	3
6	LSU	1,199	6
7	Michigan	1,164	14
8	Florida	1,054	7
9	Notre Dame	1,044	5
10	Texas	1,005	9
11	Oregon	860	NR
12	Texas A&M	852	16
13	Washington	786	13
14	Utah	772	NR
15	Penn State	651	17
16	Auburn	578	NR
17	UCF	410	11
18	Michigan State	377	NR
19	Wisconsin	370	NR
20	Iowa	330	25
21	Iowa State	302	NR
22	Syracuse	209	15
23	Washington State	200	10
24	Nebraska	154	NR
25	Stanford	141	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.