AP Poll 9/20

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2020

9/20/2020

Week 2

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Clemson (59)	1,523	1
2	Alabama (1)	1,458	2
3	Oklahoma	1,368	3
4	Georgia	1,320	4
5	Florida	1,239	5
6	LSU (1)	1,221	6
7	Notre Dame	1,200	7
8	Auburn	1,037	8
8	Texas	1,037	9
10	Texas A&M	972	10
11	North Carolina	883	12
12	Miami	816	17
13	UCF	771	14
14	Cincinnati	720	13
15	Oklahoma State	693	11
16	Tennessee	529	15
17	Memphis	510	16
18	BYU	405	21
19	Louisiana	374	19
20	Virginia Tech	350	20
21	Pittsburgh	315	25
22	Army	296	22
23	Kentucky	230	24
24	Louisville	115	18
25	Marshall	108	NR

Associated Press Poll
Started in 1936.

More Info

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.