AP Poll 10/10

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2021

10/10/2021

Week 6

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Georgia (62)	1,550	2
2	Iowa	1,476	3
3	Cincinnati	1,407	5
4	Oklahoma	1,336	6
5	Alabama	1,286	1
6	Ohio State	1,157	7
7	Penn State	1,147	4
8	Michigan	1,139	9
9	Oregon	1,057	8
10	Michigan State	992	11
11	Kentucky	918	16
12	Oklahoma State	830	12
13	Mississippi	779	17
14	Notre Dame	732	14
15	Coastal Carolina	712	15
16	Wake Forest	526	19
17	Arkansas	470	13
18	Arizona State	428	22
19	BYU	421	10
20	Florida	397	20
21	Texas A&M	348	NR
22	NC State	265	23
23	SMU	225	24
24	San Diego State	176	25
25	Texas	108	21

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.