AP Poll 9/17

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2023

9/17/2023

Week 3

Rank	Rec	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	3-0	Georgia (57)	1,566	1
2	3-0	Michigan (2)	1,481	2
3	3-0	Texas (3)	1,380	4
4	3-0	Florida State (1)	1,378	3
5	3-0	USC	1,296	5
6	3-0	Ohio State	1,291	6
7	3-0	Penn State	1,217	7
8	3-0	Washington	1,194	8
9	4-0	Notre Dame	1,066	9
10	3-0	Oregon	942	13
11	3-0	Utah	921	12
12	2-1	LSU	805	14
13	2-1	Alabama	796	10
14	3-0	Oregon State	715	16
15	3-0	Mississippi	657	17
16	3-0	Oklahoma	606	19
17	3-0	North Carolina	567	20
18	3-0	Duke	530	21
19	3-0	Colorado	509	18
20	3-0	Miami	359	22
21	3-0	Washington State	278	23
22	3-0	UCLA	204	24
23	2-1	Tennessee	198	11
24	3-0	Iowa	125	25
25	2-1	Florida	103	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.