AP Poll Pre

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2007

7/1/2007

Preseason Poll

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (62)	1,622	4
2	LSU (2)	1,511	3
3	West Virginia (1)	1,396	10
4	Texas	1,375	13
5	Michigan	1,371	8
6	Florida	1,276	1
7	Wisconsin	1,192	7
8	Oklahoma	1,166	11
9	Virginia Tech	1,148	19
10	Louisville	1,031	6
11	Ohio State	876	2
12	California	790	14
13	Georgia	782	23
14	UCLA	605	NR
15	Tennessee	571	25
16	Rutgers	560	12
17	Penn State	542	24
18	Auburn	519	9
19	Florida State	392	NR
20	Nebraska	377	NR
21	Arkansas	376	15
22	TCU	283	22
23	Hawaii	256	NR
24	Boise State	187	5
25	Texas A&M	162	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.