AP Poll 9/11

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2021

9/11/2021

Week 2

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (60)	1,572	1
2	Georgia (3)	1,514	2
3	Oklahoma	1,402	4
4	Oregon	1,355	12
5	Iowa	1,263	10
6	Clemson	1,246	6
7	Texas A&M	1,206	5
8	Cincinnati	1,149	7
9	Ohio State	1,029	3
10	Penn State	1,005	11
11	Florida	935	13
12	Notre Dame	926	8
13	UCLA	804	16
14	Iowa State	593	9
15	Virginia Tech	591	19
16	Coastal Carolina	562	17
17	Mississippi	550	20
18	Wisconsin	499	18
19	Arizona State	347	23
20	Arkansas	277	NR
21	North Carolina	268	24
22	Auburn	233	25
23	BYU	213	NR
24	Miami	177	22
25	Michigan	163	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.