AP Poll 9/19

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2021

9/19/2021

Week 3

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (59)	1,547	1
2	Georgia (3)	1,491	2
3	Oregon	1,385	4
4	Oklahoma	1,302	3
5	Iowa	1,298	5
6	Penn State	1,197	10
7	Texas A&M	1,158	7
8	Cincinnati	1,145	8
9	Clemson	1,074	6
10	Ohio State	976	9
11	Florida	930	11
12	Notre Dame	874	12
13	Mississippi	717	17
14	Iowa State	664	14
15	BYU	603	23
16	Arkansas	537	20
17	Coastal Carolina	526	16
18	Wisconsin	513	18
19	Michigan	456	25
20	Michigan State	389	NR
21	North Carolina	306	21
22	Fresno State	201	NR
23	Auburn	166	22
24	UCLA	142	13
25	Kansas State	127	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.