AP Poll 9/5

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2023

9/5/2023

Week 1

Rank	Rec	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	1-0	Georgia (58)	1,569	1
2	1-0	Michigan (2)	1,485	2
3	1-0	Alabama	1,424	4
4	1-0	Florida State (3)	1,384	8
5	1-0	Ohio State	1,308	3
6	2-0	USC	1,255	6
7	1-0	Penn State	1,212	7
8	1-0	Washington	1,107	10
9	1-0	Tennessee	975	12
10	2-0	Notre Dame	967	13
11	1-0	Texas	935	11
12	1-0	Utah	919	14
13	1-0	Oregon	823	15
14	0-1	LSU	706	5
15	1-0	Kansas State	579	16
16	1-0	Oregon State	558	18
17	1-0	North Carolina	551	21
18	1-0	Oklahoma	426	20
19	1-0	Wisconsin	407	19
20	1-0	Mississippi	379	22
21	1-0	Duke	343	NR
22	1-0	Colorado	269	NR
23	1-0	Texas A&M	267	23
24	1-0	Tulane	241	24
25	0-1	Clemson	141	9

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.