AP Poll Pre

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2023

7/1/2023

Preseason Poll

Rank	Rec	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	0-0	Georgia (60)	1,572	1
2	0-0	Michigan (2)	1,490	3
3	0-0	Ohio State (1)	1,400	4
4	0-0	Alabama	1,398	5
5	0-0	LSU	1,276	16
6	0-0	USC	1,245	12
7	0-0	Penn State	1,177	7
8	0-0	Florida State	1,147	11
9	0-0	Clemson	1,032	13
10	0-0	Washington	977	8
11	0-0	Texas	882	25
12	0-0	Tennessee	868	6
13	0-0	Notre Dame	863	18
14	0-0	Utah	811	10
15	0-0	Oregon	732	15
16	0-0	Kansas State	501	14
17	0-0	TCU	416	2
18	0-0	Oregon State	406	17
19	0-0	Wisconsin	386	NR
20	0-0	Oklahoma	296	NR
21	0-0	North Carolina	292	NR
22	0-0	Mississippi	281	NR
23	0-0	Texas A&M	227	NR
24	0-0	Tulane	224	9
25	0-0	Iowa	131	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.