AP Poll Final

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2019

1/14/2020

Week 16

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	LSU (62)	1,550	1
2	Clemson	1,487	3
3	Ohio State	1,426	2
4	Georgia	1,336	5
5	Oregon	1,249	7
6	Florida	1,211	6
7	Oklahoma	1,179	4
8	Alabama	1,159	9
9	Penn State	1,038	13
10	Minnesota	952	16
11	Wisconsin	883	11
12	Notre Dame	879	14
13	Baylor	827	8
14	Auburn	726	10
15	Iowa	699	19
16	Utah	543	12
17	Memphis	528	15
18	Michigan	468	17
19	Appalachian State	466	20
20	Navy	415	21
21	Cincinnati	343	23
22	Air Force	209	24
23	Boise State	188	18
24	UCF	78	NR
25	Texas	69	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.