AP Poll 10/3

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2021

10/3/2021

Week 5

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (53)	1,541	1
2	Georgia (9)	1,497	2
3	Iowa	1,381	5
4	Penn State	1,360	4
5	Cincinnati	1,320	7
6	Oklahoma	1,248	6
7	Ohio State	1,094	11
8	Oregon	1,069	3
9	Michigan	1,053	14
10	BYU	990	13
11	Michigan State	852	17
12	Oklahoma State	749	19
13	Arkansas	745	8
14	Notre Dame	701	9
15	Coastal Carolina	694	16
16	Kentucky	662	NR
17	Mississippi	601	12
18	Auburn	448	22
19	Wake Forest	412	24
20	Florida	343	10
21	Texas	303	NR
22	Arizona State	297	NR
23	NC State	279	23
24	SMU	136	NR
25	San Diego State	111	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.