AP Poll Final

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2021

1/11/2022

Week 15

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Georgia (61)	1,525	3
2	Alabama	1,464	1
3	Michigan	1,361	2
4	Cincinnati	1,349	4
5	Baylor	1,259	6
6	Ohio State	1,247	7
7	Oklahoma State	1,177	9
8	Notre Dame	1,039	5
9	Michigan State	1,026	11
10	Oklahoma	966	14
11	Mississippi	926	8
12	Utah	851	10
13	Pittsburgh	741	13
14	Clemson	538	19
15	Wake Forest	533	20
16	Louisiana	517	16
17	Houston	513	21
18	Kentucky	446	25
19	BYU	435	12
20	NC State	382	18
21	Arkansas	371	22
22	Oregon	364	15
23	Iowa	171	17
24	Utah State	163	NR
25	San Diego State	137	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.