AP Poll 10/1

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2023

10/1/2023

Week 5

Rank	Rec	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	5-0	Georgia (35)	1,501	1
2	5-0	Michigan (12)	1,436	2
3	5-0	Texas (10)	1,426	3
4	4-0	Ohio State (1)	1,357	4
5	4-0	Florida State (4)	1,336	5
6	5-0	Penn State	1,227	6
7	5-0	Washington	1,213	7
8	5-0	Oregon	1,113	9
9	5-0	USC	1,077	8
10	5-1	Notre Dame	975	11
11	4-1	Alabama	921	12
12	5-0	Oklahoma	840	14
13	4-0	Washington State	765	16
14	4-0	North Carolina	726	15
15	4-1	Oregon State	633	19
16	4-1	Mississippi	616	20
17	4-0	Miami	589	18
18	4-1	Utah	454	10
19	4-1	Duke	384	17
20	5-0	Kentucky	344	NR
21	5-0	Missouri	329	23
22	4-1	Tennessee	306	21
23	3-2	LSU	149	13
24	5-0	Fresno State	130	25
25	5-0	Louisville	90	NR

Associated Press Poll
Started in 1936.

More Info

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.