AP Poll 11/20

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2022

11/20/2022

Week 12

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Georgia (62)	1,574	1
2	Ohio State (1)	1,507	2
3	Michigan	1,446	3
4	TCU	1,395	4
5	USC	1,293	7
6	LSU	1,241	6
7	Clemson	1,152	9
8	Alabama	1,131	8
9	Tennessee	1,058	5
10	Oregon	1,009	12
11	Penn State	994	11
12	Washington	879	15
13	Notre Dame	710	18
14	Utah	709	10
15	Kansas State	697	19
16	Florida State	579	20
17	UCLA	562	16
18	North Carolina	464	13
19	Tulane	441	21
20	Mississippi	395	14
21	Cincinnati	353	22
22	Oregon State	271	25
23	Coastal Carolina	186	23
24	Texas	128	NR
25	UCF	87	17

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.