AP Poll 9/22

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2019

9/22/2019

Week 4

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Clemson (55)	1,543	1
2	Alabama (6)	1,485	2
3	Georgia (1)	1,400	3
4	LSU	1,344	4
5	Ohio State	1,288	6
6	Oklahoma	1,283	5
7	Auburn	1,169	8
8	Wisconsin	1,071	14
9	Florida	1,022	9
10	Notre Dame	989	7
11	Texas	968	12
12	Penn State	848	13
13	Oregon	839	16
14	Iowa	714	18
15	California	547	23
16	Boise State	524	20
17	Washington	498	22
18	Virginia	430	21
19	Utah	426	10
20	Michigan	287	11
21	USC	257	NR
22	UCF	252	15
23	Texas A&M	233	17
24	Kansas State	230	NR
25	Michigan State	104	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.