AP Poll 9/4

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2007

9/4/2007

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (59)	1,619	1
2	LSU (5)	1,542	2
3	West Virginia (1)	1,449	3
4	Florida	1,346	6
5	Oklahoma	1,275	8
5	Wisconsin	1,275	7
7	Texas	1,221	4
8	Louisville	1,152	10
9	Virginia Tech	1,085	9
10	California	1,080	12
11	Georgia	959	13
12	Ohio State	940	11
13	UCLA	736	14
14	Penn State	662	17
15	Rutgers	659	16
16	Nebraska	541	20
17	Auburn	519	18
18	Arkansas	450	21
19	TCU	384	22
20	Hawaii	335	23
21	Georgia Tech	278	NR
22	Boise State	267	24
23	Texas A&M	217	25
24	Tennessee	210	15
25	Clemson	195	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.