AP Poll 9/18

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2022

9/18/2022

Week 3

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Georgia (59)	1,569	1
2	Alabama (3)	1,492	2
3	Ohio State (1)	1,473	3
4	Michigan	1,364	4
5	Clemson	1,268	5
6	Oklahoma	1,257	6
7	USC	1,197	7
8	Kentucky	1,096	9
9	Oklahoma State	1,071	8
10	Arkansas	920	10
11	Tennessee	866	15
12	NC State	781	16
13	Utah	684	14
14	Penn State	666	22
15	Oregon	593	25
16	Mississippi	585	20
17	Baylor	494	17
18	Washington	485	NR
19	BYU	381	12
20	Florida	360	18
21	Wake Forest	345	19
22	Texas	339	21
23	Texas A&M	309	24
24	Pittsburgh	181	23
25	Miami	123	13

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.