AP Poll 12/6

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2020

12/6/2020

Week 13

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (62)	1,550	1
2	Notre Dame	1,482	2
3	Ohio State	1,407	3
4	Clemson	1,387	4
5	Texas A&M	1,274	5
6	Florida	1,233	6
7	Cincinnati	1,204	7
8	Indiana	1,047	10
9	Miami	1,039	9
10	Iowa State	947	12
11	Coastal Carolina	923	14
12	Georgia	914	11
13	Oklahoma	837	13
14	BYU	713	8
15	Northwestern	647	16
16	USC	624	17
17	Louisiana	560	20
18	Tulsa	444	22
19	Iowa	424	24
20	North Carolina	306	NR
21	Colorado	253	NR
22	Liberty	191	25
23	Texas	164	NR
24	Buffalo	145	NR
25	Wisconsin	115	18

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.