AP Poll 9/9

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2007

9/9/2007

Week 2

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (40)	1,594	1
2	LSU (25)	1,582	2
3	Oklahoma	1,418	5
4	West Virginia	1,408	3
5	Florida	1,370	4
6	Texas	1,290	7
7	Wisconsin	1,171	6
8	California	1,126	10
9	Louisville	1,097	8
10	Ohio State	962	12
11	UCLA	910	13
12	Penn State	896	14
13	Rutgers	820	15
14	Nebraska	693	16
15	Georgia Tech	590	21
16	Arkansas	537	18
17	South Carolina	477	NR
18	Virginia Tech	382	9
19	Oregon	367	NR
20	Clemson	349	25
21	Boston College	323	NR
22	Tennessee	284	24
23	Georgia	261	11
24	Hawaii	247	20
25	Texas A&M	243	23

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.