AP Poll 9/8

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2019

9/8/2019

Week 2

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Clemson (56)	1,544	1
2	Alabama (6)	1,489	2
3	Georgia	1,385	3
4	LSU	1,336	6
5	Oklahoma	1,315	4
6	Ohio State	1,291	5
7	Notre Dame	1,072	8
8	Auburn	1,056	10
9	Florida	997	11
10	Michigan	936	7
11	Utah	905	13
12	Texas	877	9
13	Penn State	781	15
14	Wisconsin	714	17
15	Oregon	677	16
16	Texas A&M	643	12
17	UCF	544	18
18	Michigan State	495	19
19	Iowa	473	20
20	Washington State	343	22
21	Maryland	207	NR
22	Boise State	164	24
23	Washington	161	14
24	USC	137	NR
25	Virginia	122	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.