AP Poll Final

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2022

1/10/2023

Week 15

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Georgia (63)	1,575	1
2	TCU	1,484	3
3	Michigan	1,438	2
4	Ohio State	1,394	4
5	Alabama	1,303	5
6	Tennessee	1,294	6
7	Penn State	1,200	9
8	Washington	1,097	12
9	Tulane	1,025	14
10	Utah	876	7
11	Florida State	814	13
12	USC	795	8
13	Clemson	791	10
14	Kansas State	784	11
15	Oregon	758	15
16	LSU	757	16
17	Oregon State	742	17
18	Notre Dame	535	19
19	Troy	322	23
20	Mississippi State	320	24
21	UCLA	243	18
22	Pittsburgh	233	NR
23	South Carolina	180	20
24	Fresno State	164	NR
25	Texas	95	21

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.