AP Poll 12/13

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2020

12/13/2020

Week 14

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (62)	1,550	1
2	Notre Dame	1,482	2
3	Ohio State	1,405	3
4	Clemson	1,388	4
5	Texas A&M	1,286	5
6	Cincinnati	1,248	7
7	Indiana	1,140	8
8	Iowa State	1,059	10
9	Coastal Carolina	994	11
10	Georgia	968	12
11	Florida	940	6
12	Oklahoma	902	13
13	USC	774	16
14	BYU	724	14
15	Northwestern	691	15
16	North Carolina	631	20
17	Louisiana	566	17
18	Iowa	502	19
19	Miami	454	9
20	Tulsa	408	18
21	Texas	227	23
22	Liberty	184	22
23	Buffalo	183	24
24	NC State	137	NR
25	San Jose State	124	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.