AP Poll 9/6

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2021

9/6/2021

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (59)	1,571	1
2	Georgia (4)	1,507	5
3	Ohio State	1,437	4
4	Oklahoma	1,374	2
5	Texas A&M	1,288	6
6	Clemson	1,231	3
7	Cincinnati	1,136	8
8	Notre Dame	1,070	9
9	Iowa State	1,045	7
10	Iowa	942	18
11	Penn State	908	19
12	Oregon	883	11
13	Florida	842	13
14	USC	789	15
15	Texas	683	21
16	UCLA	668	NR
17	Coastal Carolina	384	22
18	Wisconsin	376	12
19	Virginia Tech	359	NR
20	Mississippi	335	NR
21	Utah	334	24
22	Miami	229	14
23	Arizona State	227	25
24	North Carolina	198	10
25	Auburn	83	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.