AP Poll 11/21

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2021

11/21/2021

Week 12

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Georgia (62)	1,550	1
2	Ohio State	1,434	5
3	Alabama	1,423	2
4	Cincinnati	1,416	3
5	Notre Dame	1,262	6
6	Michigan	1,246	8
7	Oklahoma State	1,209	9
8	Mississippi	1,060	10
9	Baylor	1,046	11
10	Oklahoma	1,001	12
11	Oregon	849	4
12	Michigan State	778	7
13	BYU	771	14
14	Texas A&M	628	16
15	Texas San Antonio	583	15
16	Utah	561	24
17	Iowa	538	18
18	Wisconsin	517	19
19	Houston	516	17
20	Pittsburgh	445	20
21	Wake Forest	344	13
22	San Diego State	273	23
23	Louisiana	246	22
24	NC State	141	25
25	Arkansas	105	21

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.