AP Poll 10/11

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2020

10/11/2020

Week 5

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Clemson (59)	1,546	1
2	Alabama (2)	1,463	2
3	Georgia (1)	1,430	3
4	Notre Dame	1,317	5
5	North Carolina	1,190	8
6	Ohio State	1,152	6
7	Oklahoma State	1,069	10
8	Cincinnati	971	11
9	Penn State	970	9
10	Florida	904	4
11	Texas A&M	883	21
12	Oregon	817	12
13	Miami	789	7
14	BYU	708	15
15	Auburn	702	13
16	Wisconsin	633	16
17	SMU	522	18
18	Tennessee	462	14
19	Michigan	417	20
20	Iowa State	404	24
21	Louisiana	341	23
22	Kansas State	301	NR
23	Virginia Tech	198	19
24	Minnesota	177	25
25	USC	124	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.