AP Poll 10/2

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2022

10/2/2022

Week 5

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (25)	1,523	2
2	Georgia (28)	1,521	1
3	Ohio State (10)	1,488	3
4	Michigan	1,348	4
5	Clemson	1,345	5
6	USC	1,233	6
7	Oklahoma State	1,182	9
8	Tennessee	1,129	8
9	Mississippi	1,068	14
10	Penn State	959	11
11	Utah	884	12
12	Oregon	872	13
13	Kentucky	832	7
14	NC State	691	10
15	Wake Forest	627	22
16	BYU	604	19
17	TCU	514	NR
18	UCLA	510	NR
19	Kansas	476	NR
20	Kansas State	417	25
21	Washington	180	15
22	Syracuse	173	NR
23	Mississippi State	164	NR
24	Cincinnati	134	NR
25	LSU	108	NR

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.