AP Poll 11/22

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2020

11/22/2020

Week 11

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (62)	1,550	1
2	Notre Dame	1,471	2
3	Ohio State	1,440	3
4	Clemson	1,358	4
5	Texas A&M	1,249	5
6	Florida	1,223	6
7	Cincinnati	1,201	7
8	BYU	1,109	8
9	Oregon	951	11
10	Miami	936	12
11	Northwestern	922	19
12	Indiana	899	9
13	Georgia	828	13
14	Oklahoma	693	18
15	Iowa State	658	17
16	Coastal Carolina	622	15
17	Marshall	542	16
18	Wisconsin	540	10
19	USC	461	20
20	Texas	321	22
21	Oklahoma State	289	14
22	Auburn	259	23
23	Louisiana	218	24
24	Tulsa	164	25
25	North Carolina	108	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.