AP Poll 9/5

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2022

9/5/2022

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (44)	1,552	1
2	Georgia (17)	1,511	3
3	Ohio State (2)	1,471	2
4	Michigan	1,299	8
5	Clemson	1,280	4
6	Texas A&M	1,241	6
7	Oklahoma	1,130	9
8	Notre Dame	1,085	5
9	Baylor	1,057	10
10	USC	898	14
11	Oklahoma State	818	12
12	Florida	763	NR
13	Utah	717	7
14	Michigan State	690	15
15	Miami	679	16
16	Arkansas	678	19
17	Pittsburgh	535	17
18	NC State	513	13
19	Wisconsin	476	18
20	Kentucky	373	20
21	BYU	266	25
22	Mississippi	254	21
23	Wake Forest	246	22
24	Tennessee	194	NR
25	Houston	143	24

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.