AP Poll 12/5

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2021

12/5/2021

Week 14

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (50)	1,535	4
2	Michigan (9)	1,480	2
3	Georgia	1,408	1
4	Cincinnati (3)	1,404	3
5	Notre Dame	1,280	6
6	Baylor	1,228	9
7	Ohio State	1,177	7
8	Mississippi	1,101	8
9	Oklahoma State	1,060	5
10	Utah	929	14
11	Michigan State	895	11
12	BYU	866	12
13	Pittsburgh	838	17
14	Oklahoma	807	13
15	Oregon	594	10
16	Louisiana	490	20
17	Iowa	446	15
18	NC State	404	21
19	Clemson	395	22
20	Wake Forest	393	18
21	Houston	358	16
22	Arkansas	279	23
23	Texas A&M	171	24
24	Texas San Antonio	146	NR
25	Kentucky	129	25

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.