AP Poll 12/20

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2020

12/20/2020

Week 15

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (62)	1,550	1
2	Clemson	1,482	4
3	Ohio State	1,424	3
4	Notre Dame	1,338	2
5	Texas A&M	1,297	5
6	Cincinnati	1,262	6
7	Indiana	1,123	7
8	Oklahoma	1,088	12
9	Coastal Carolina	1,024	9
10	Florida	1,001	11
11	Georgia	959	10
12	Iowa State	845	8
13	BYU	779	14
14	North Carolina	685	16
15	Northwestern	666	15
16	Louisiana	642	17
17	Iowa	556	18
18	Miami	475	19
19	San Jose State	375	25
20	Texas	291	21
21	USC	276	13
22	Tulsa	273	20
23	Liberty	207	22
24	NC State	185	24
25	Oregon	126	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.