AP Poll Final

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2020

1/11/2021

Week 16

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (61)	1,525	1
2	Ohio State	1,463	3
3	Clemson	1,378	2
4	Texas A&M	1,324	5
5	Notre Dame	1,279	4
6	Oklahoma	1,243	8
7	Georgia	1,144	11
8	Cincinnati	1,074	6
9	Iowa State	1,035	12
10	Northwestern	893	15
11	BYU	862	13
12	Indiana	773	7
13	Florida	764	10
14	Coastal Carolina	725	9
15	Louisiana	664	16
16	Iowa	581	17
17	Liberty	576	23
18	North Carolina	532	14
19	Texas	485	20
20	Oklahoma State	417	NR
21	USC	306	21
22	Miami	284	18
23	Ball State	183	NR
24	San Jose State	80	19
25	Buffalo	51	NR

Associated Press Poll
Started in 1936.

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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.