AP Poll 9/3

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2019

9/3/2019

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Clemson (54)	1,542	1
2	Alabama (8)	1,493	2
3	Georgia	1,407	3
4	Oklahoma	1,337	4
5	Ohio State	1,270	5
6	LSU	1,233	6
7	Michigan	1,126	7
8	Notre Dame	1,037	9
9	Texas	1,032	10
10	Auburn	958	16
11	Florida	940	8
12	Texas A&M	862	12
13	Utah	826	14
14	Washington	768	13
15	Penn State	688	15
16	Oregon	568	11
17	Wisconsin	519	19
18	UCF	445	17
19	Michigan State	409	18
20	Iowa	351	20
21	Syracuse	246	22
22	Washington State	244	23
23	Stanford	198	25
24	Boise State	179	NR
25	Iowa State	86	21
25	Nebraska	86	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.