AP Poll 10/16

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2022

10/16/2022

Week 7

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Georgia (31)	1,530	1
2	Ohio State (17)	1,509	2
3	Tennessee (15)	1,474	6
4	Michigan	1,384	5
5	Clemson	1,336	4
6	Alabama	1,232	3
7	Mississippi	1,173	9
8	TCU	1,166	13
9	UCLA	1,048	11
10	Oregon	953	12
11	Oklahoma State	913	8
12	USC	861	7
13	Wake Forest	790	14
14	Syracuse	751	18
15	Utah	715	20
16	Penn State	629	10
17	Kansas State	599	17
18	Illinois	433	24
19	Kentucky	414	22
20	Texas	368	23
21	Cincinnati	321	21
22	North Carolina	210	NR
23	NC State	155	15
24	Mississippi State	150	16
25	Tulane	115	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.