AP Poll 11/1

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2020

11/1/2020

Week 8

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Clemson (33)	1,515	1
2	Alabama (29)	1,513	2
3	Ohio State	1,430	3
4	Notre Dame	1,351	4
5	Georgia	1,289	5
6	Cincinnati	1,199	7
7	Texas A&M	1,156	8
8	Florida	1,066	10
9	BYU	1,014	11
10	Wisconsin	985	9
11	Miami	946	12
12	Oregon	831	14
13	Indiana	765	17
14	Oklahoma State	760	6
15	Coastal Carolina	527	20
16	Marshall	523	19
17	Iowa State	427	23
18	SMU	420	22
19	Oklahoma	405	24
20	USC	354	21
21	Boise State	336	25
22	Texas	190	NR
23	Michigan	151	13
24	Auburn	144	NR
25	Liberty	118	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.